How it works
In discussing the phenomenon of autohemotherapy, as a procedure with a minimal set of contraindications, two main explanations are mentioned - why one’s own blood can heal. The first is the homeopathic theory - “like cures like.” The second is the activation of the human immune system in response to the penetration of a foreign substance.
Homeopathic theory
It will be close to adherents of homeopathy as such. According to homeopathic theory, water carries a certain information memory. Water in the blood, passing through the entire body, remembers all the information about the work and malfunctions of our organs and systems. If such blood is reintroduced into the human body, an “interference” effect occurs. The overlap of information records from external and internal sources causes the destruction of pathology. In this case, one’s own blood becomes a unique information-energy fluid that possesses detailed information about the body.
Immune response to penetration of a foreign substance
Our blood contains minerals, salts, hormones, antibodies, nutrients and a number of other components. The most energy-intensive component here is protein. It is believed that autohemotherapy gives an impetus to our immune system, which begins to recognize its proteins in the composition of the injected blood and is activated to fight the pathogens present in it. This general shake-up is the trigger for leukocytosis, which scientists observed during authentic blood transfusions.
Leukocytosis, in this case, means an increase in the inflammatory process and reflects an increase in the fight against pathogens. If there were no foci of infection, no increase in leukocyte levels was observed in patients (research by R.N. Khodanova, Doctor of Medical Sciences).
Treatment of chiries with blood transfusion
A boil, or boil, is a purulent inflammation of the hair follicle. The boil is located in the middle layer of the skin - the dermis. There are different ways to treat chiria, including blood transfusions for chiria. The method is based on the body’s ability to cause a rejection reaction to the introduction of substances containing a protein that is unusual for the body, foreign to it, including that present in the blood. The body mobilizes all its strength to fight the oncoming infection, and diseases such as boils are easily cured.
Sometimes, several boils appear on the surface of the skin. This phenomenon is called furunculosis. The appearance of a boil indicates an inflammatory process of an infectious nature. If the immune system is weakened and the body becomes vulnerable to bacterial and viral infections, then inflammation develops as a result of the action of microbes that are always present in the body.
Symptoms
The boil disease process goes through several phases, each of which lasts several days. If nothing interferes with the infection, it penetrates deeper into the thickness of the skin, capturing more and more new tissues. The boil can go away on its own, without any treatment. Sometimes local treatment with external bactericidal drugs helps.
Cases of long-term and complex treatment of chiria have been described. During the process of formation, the boil first causes itching and hyperemia at the site of infection. Then one or more small red bumps appear, firm to the touch and painful. Then an abscess in the form of a white dot forms in the center of the mound. Sooner or later, most often within a decade, the abscess breaks, the pus drains, the swelling of the skin stops and recovery occurs.
An attempt to squeeze out an unformed abscess on the body can only cause harm: pus can get into a blood vessel injured by compression and cause blood sepsis.
Danger of squeezing out an abscess
The severity of the disease depends on the location of the chiria. The most dangerous are furunculosis of the nasolabial triangle, located in close proximity to vital organs. A boil in the ear promises a lot of trouble. Treatment of chiries in such cases should be carried out quickly and carefully so as not to cause serious complications.
Hemotherapy
Autohemotherapy, or blood transfusion from chiries, is nothing more than an injection of blood taken from a vein into the muscle tissue, with a few exceptions, the gluteal. Hemotherapy is a traditional, widespread method of treating such diseases.
This method of treating chiries has been tested many times, and with the known qualifications of the medical worker performing the procedure, it is completely safe. The effect of the hemotherapy procedure develops within two to three weeks.
Blood injected into the muscle coagulates. A hematoma forms. To resolve the hematoma, the body mobilizes all its reserves. When a hematoma dissolves, many biologically active substances are formed, providing the body with a kind of shock.
Intramuscular injection of blood boosts your own immunity. A general strengthening of the body occurs and many trivial ailments, such as chiries, go away on their own. Sometimes, an accidental injury, such as a bruise on the body, can help cure such a disease. After all, a bruise is a hematoma.
Activation of the body's defenses
Autohemotherapy procedure
The procedure for blood transfusion from chirii consists of daily injections of an increasing, and upon reaching the maximum dosage, a decreasing amount of venous blood into the gluteal muscle.
Blood is drawn from a vein using a syringe and immediately injected into the buttock muscle, without adding any additional medications. It is important to have the skills to draw blood from a vein. The vein should be large enough and easily detectable. A tourniquet is applied to the arm, the vein fills with blood and becomes clearly visible.
And then, everything is simple. It is important to follow the rules of asepsis both when collecting and administering blood. The treatment regimen involves the selection and administration of 2 ml of vein contents on the first day. On the second day, 2 ml more, and so on until you reach 10 ml. And then, every day, reduce the dosage by 2 ml per day. Introducing a full dose on the first day can lead to a violent response of the body to the introduction of a protein-containing liquid, which is unsafe. There is a modification of autohemotherapy - treatment using autologous blood subjected to freezing, laser, ultraviolet or x-rays, or ozonation.
It should be taken into account that blood should be injected slowly so as not to injure the muscle. To optimize the process of hematoma resorption, it is useful to apply massage and heat to the injection site. In parallel with hemotherapy, local treatment with anti-inflammatory external agents is continued.
Treatment prognosis
Hemotherapy for furunculosis is used only if other methods of treating boils on the body do not bring the desired result. This unconventional method of treatment is safe, but it does not provide a 100% guarantee of cure.
Autohemotherapy is indicated in the treatment of teenage furunculosis. The treatment process is quite long. The healing process is associated with an increase in immunity; a marker of the beginning of a positive restructuring in the body is a change in skin color.
You should not expect that by the end of the course of hemotherapy, chiria will completely disappear. The desired result can be obtained after some time. We should not forget that in parallel with autohemotherapy, it is necessary to carry out symptomatic treatment with external agents.
Autohemotherapy at home
The procedure for taking blood from a vein and intramuscular injection requires professional skill. There is no doubt that anyone can learn such a craft.
But you shouldn’t take risks; it’s much safer to entrust the matter to a professional, in this case, a nurse. A qualified medical professional can perform autohemotherapy at home.
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Who is prescribed autohematherapy?
Autohemotherapy indications for the procedure:
- Chronic inflammatory diseases.
- Allergic diseases.
- Immune deficiency (secondary).
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system.
- Gynecological problems.
- Pathological changes in the innervation of the limbs.
- Dermatology.
On an individual basis, the attending physician may decide that a blood transfusion may be useful for general strengthening purposes, for the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome and depression.
Contraindications
These procedures are not prescribed or performed in the following cases:
- pregnancy and breastfeeding;
- mental illness in the acute stage;
- epilepsy;
- arrhythmias;
- oncology of any localization;
- acute myocardial infarction.
Temporary contraindications for this procedure are:
- alcohol consumption, in which the patient comes to the procedure in a state of intoxication;
- general severe condition of the body;
- feverish condition and some others at the discretion of the attending physician.
Scheme of implementation
In the absence of contraindications, autohemotherapy requires adherence to the optimal scheme for the procedures. Sessions begin with a minimum dose of 2 ml. The introduction of large volumes of blood at once can lead to the development of local inflammation, fever, and muscle pain.
Judging by the reviews, the more painful the procedure is, the greater the volume of blood used for transfusion. The generally accepted model is a daily increase in blood volume according to the 2 ml scheme. - 4 ml. - 6 ml. - 8 ml. - 10 ml. This is then followed by a reverse reduction to a dose of 2 ml.
Autohemotherapy gives a healing effect after the first procedures: body tone improves, sleep and appetite are normalized. Efficiency increases.
Therapy prognosis
If the cause of furunculosis is associated with disturbances in the immune system, infectious diseases, metabolic disorders in the body and problems with the gastrointestinal tract, then the prognosis after the procedure is positive. In case of hormonal imbalances, such treatment will be extremely limited. Furunculosis requires complex treatment. The autohemotherapy procedure does not in itself give a clearly positive result. A healthy lifestyle, treatment with vitamins, adherence to a daily routine, and avoidance of stress are accompanying factors in applying the entire treatment regimen for furunculosis prescribed by the doctor.
Options for autohemotherapy
Currently, in addition to classical autohemotherapy, variations of this procedure are used:
- Ozonation of blood.
- Dilution with homeopathic remedies.
- Addition of antibiotics.
Ozonation
The technique is based on the antibacterial, immunomodulating and anti-inflammatory properties of ozone. The idea is to mix the patient's own blood with a certain therapeutic amount of ozone compound. Then there is a reverse blood transfusion to the patient.
Autohemotherapy using ozone is considered effective for gynecological diseases.
Homeopathic dilutions
In this case, a blood transfusion session is carried out by stepwise dilution in different homeopathic preparations. This mixture is then administered to the patient during one procedure.
Use of antibiotics
Autohemotherapy with antibiotics is often indicated in the presence of boils and carbuncles.
It turns out to be an effective method in the treatment of dermatological issues caused by the presence of infection in the blood.
In addition to the methods described above, they also use methods of physical influence on the blood - freezing, treatment with x-rays, laser or ultraviolet. Judging by the reviews, the therapeutic effect with such treatment increases.
In what cases is it used
A few years later, this method began to be used to boost immunity in patients with long-term colds - an occupational disease of people whose work involves constant exposure to the cold.
Furuncle - purulent inflammation of the hair follicle
Such colds are also common among people in prison. Heavy rashes of the body with boils (furunculosis), which cannot be treated with conventional methods, were often cured with autohemotherapy.
This method was quite well known and was popular among surgeons and dermatologists. But due to the development of nanotechnology in medical practice, this method began to be forgotten.
Currently, it has regained its popularity, but more in the cosmetology industry. To treat the increasingly common problem among young people with acne on the face, they began to be prescribed this method. Why are some doctors now returning to such an old method?
There is no short answer to this question. But experienced doctors explain this by the fact that when introducing one’s own blood, taken from a vein and containing decay products, waste substances and their toxins, which must be eliminated by the kidneys or processed by the liver, the body receives a shake-up.
This is similar to the reaction to the introduction of bacteria or their toxins during vaccination, when the body reacts to the enemy invasion and produces antibodies to fight it.
Sometimes autohemotherapy is carried out with the addition of drugs or ozone
The blood of a frequently ill or weakened body does not quite cope with toxins in case of furunculosis or other similar conditions.
It contains their increased concentration. And with the introduction of this blood, a stressful state is created, and the body begins to urgently rebuild.
This method is good because no additional medicinal substances are required; the blood itself is the medicine. But sometimes doctors still use autohemotherapy with the addition of other substances.
To begin with, these were the same antibiotics. Then the use of homeopathic remedies was tested. And recently they began to use ozonation of blood before its injection into the muscle.
All these techniques produce results, but most doctors still consider such treatment to be a placebo method. This opinion exists because no special scientific research has been conducted on this matter.
Reviews
Having analyzed the impressions of patients who used transfusions of their own blood as prescribed by doctors, we can say that when treating acne, most of the subjects report an increase in vitality and performance. We are happy with this effect and recommend it to others, however, contrary to their expectations, there is no decrease in acne. Conclusion - the effect of the procedure is indeed present, but it has little effect on acne.
Some patients did not find any positive changes in their condition. As well as negative ones.
Natalia
43 years old, Ufa
I was prescribed autohemotherapy at the hospital. She was in the gynecological department. The head of the department advised. This did not solve my problem, but my skin condition has improved.
Lisa
28 years old, St. Petersburg
I liked the effect. Cheap and safe. I did it in the fall, during a period of constant dampness and rain. There was depression and terrible drowsiness. I don’t know if it’s related to the transfusion, but I became more cheerful, got enough sleep and stopped moping. I've heard other similar reviews.
Oksana
25 years old, Samara
They did it to me when I was still at school, about 15 years ago. I was trying to get rid of chronic sinusitis. There was a very pleasant side effect - the boils stopped bothering me. After that there was not a single case. The pain became less, but it didn’t help with sinusitis.
Vadim
45 years old, Kyiv
Autohemotherapy improves immunity. I know many people who are helped by this and they regularly go to the clinic for repeat courses. I also know those who are not helped at all. I think it helps if skin problems are associated with poor immunity.
Vyacheslav
45 years old, Dnepropetrovsk
They prescribed it to me for furunculosis. Painful and completely useless.
Reviews about the autohematherapy procedure are quite contradictory. There are variations from completely positive to cases with an absolute lack of therapeutic effect. This variation raises suspicion of the presence of a placebo effect in susceptible patients.
Reviews from veterinarians indicate that there is indeed an improvement in the general condition of the animals. They begin to sleep better and become more active. And our four-legged friends certainly cannot be blamed for the presence of the “placebo” effect.
Why doesn't it help everyone?
Medicine involves a systematic approach to the problem of treating any disease, when the doctor’s attention is directed to the entire body, and not to individual symptoms.
But in relation to cosmetic skin defects, such as pimples, blackheads, boils, this approach is often not applied, because:
- people with cosmetic problems do not go to doctors, they use the experience of friends and acquaintances who have “helped” or information from advertisements and videos as a guide to action;
- people turn to doctors, but do not complete the examination due to constant redirection from one specialist to another;
- the doctor prescribes to the patient a procedure that is in the institution’s price list, despite the fact that the procedure itself cannot provide the required effect (for example, some salons sell autohemotherapy as a rejuvenating procedure for facial skin).
Add to this the intrusive marketing from manufacturers and sellers of cosmetics, medicines, and cosmetic procedures, and you will get the answer to why we have so many people who “have tried everything, but nothing helps.”
If it begins to be sold as a salon service, before which the patient is not prescribed any tests or examinations, then the effect is not guaranteed. You may be lucky, or you may not be lucky.
Side effects
According to reviews, if the procedure was carried out in compliance with all the rules of medical asepsis, patients did not observe side effects.
In conclusion, we can say that the autohemotherapy procedure does not cause negative changes in the health status of patients. On the contrary, in many cases this technique helped cure patients for whom traditional medicine methods were useless. And the abundance of descriptions of increasing vitality, performance and general condition of the body makes even skeptics think. Whether to use autohemotherapy methods or to treat them with caution is a personal question for everyone. However, this decision must be balanced and requires discussion with a competent immunologist.
Indications for the procedure
According to reviews, autohemotherapy has virtually no disadvantages or side effects. The procedure itself is absolutely painless, which is why it has gained wild popularity. The indications for its implementation are completely different. This treatment method is used to eliminate defects in the skin or to improve immunity. Among other recommendations for use, doctors highlight the following cases:
- infertility;
- inflammation of the female reproductive system;
- recurrent viral respiratory diseases associated with herpes, influenza or enterovirus infection;
- psoriasis, purulent furunculosis;
- bacterial infections caused by pneumococcus, staphylococcus or streptococcus;
- osteochondrosis, arthritis, osteoporosis.
Autohemotherapy is absolutely safe, so it can be performed even on children.
