Hyperbaric therapy, a promising new treatment option for inflammatory bowel disease

Inflammatory bowel diseases

Although large-scale studies of the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in inflammatory bowel disease are still in their early stages, initial results are promising, showing that hyperbaric therapy can help reduce pain, inflammation and symptoms, offering a promising treatment option for patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

While traditional treatments based on corticosteroids, anti-inflammatories and immunomodulators can produce serious long-term side effects, hyperbaric therapy may be a new treatment option as it targets both tissue hypoxia and inflammation with very few side effects.