Is Oxygen the Answer to Long Covid?

She couldn't sleep, couldn't think straight, and couldn't walk. She spent days in bed because her muscles were so bad. She was in a wheelchair when she got up. She couldn't concentrate on the most trivial tasks. Doctors couldn't agree on the cause of Maya Doari's illness.

She was diagnosed with pericarditis due to the inflammation of the sac-like tissues around her heart. Her doctors told her not to try to understand because they no longer could.

The vocal cord specialist mocked her when she tried to speak. She experiencedSeizures when she tried to relearn how to walk. I wanted to know if it could be connected to the Covid I had. They said no and sent me back to my house.

Her condition was not fake. It might not be as unique as it seems.

Doari, a homeopath who lives in a small village near Jerusalem, had been sick for three months. The person was Covid. The real symptoms started after the initial symptoms passed. Doctors said my case was the worst they had ever seen.

Long Covid is the catch all phrase used to describe the effects of Covid. Over 200 symptoms have been gathered under this umbrella term, ranging from the common to the more striking, like Doari's seizures. Millions of people around the world report having long Covid.

Doari says they are "98 percent gone" after a year since her Covid symptoms arrived.

Israeli researchers published a study in July that showed using this technique to deliver massive amounts of oxygen to the body appears to alleviate many of Covid's cognitive and physical after- effects.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy involves getting into a hard-shell pressurized tube where the air pressure is up to three times that of our atmosphere and then breathing in concentrated oxygen. Originally intended to treat the bends, a dangerous condition that can result from deep-sea diving or high-altitude mountaineers, it is now used to promote healing in cancer patients and burn victims and is even used by athletes eager for a performance boost.

The amount of dissolved oxygen in the blood can be raised by breathing in concentrated oxygen. Stem cells and substances called growth factors help tissues heal and can be stimulated by this.