Oxygen For Alzheimer's Disease
Oxygen,under high pressure, has been given to demented patients with some success. In 1969, it was reported
by Eleanor Jacobs that senile demented patients who received 30 treatments of
pure oxygen at 2.5 atmospheres of pressure, had remarkable memory gains. The
average score on the Wechsler Memory Scale before treatment was 76.0; after
treatment with oxygen, the average score was 103.0 [141]. One study found that
28 of 59 patients showed good to excellent responses to oxygen [142]. However,
later studies generally found poor results with oxygen [143-144]. Oxygen fell
into disuse, because the treatment was expensive and the cognitive effects
lasted only 12 hours or so [145].