Blood Irradiation with Low-Level Laser Therapy Offers Potential in Treatment of Wide Range of Conditions

Blood irradiation refers to the procedure where a patient's blood is exposed to low level laser light for therapeutic reasons (like treating cancer or saving a patient from the risk of heart attack or stroke). In the therapy, the exposed blood is drawn into a special device, called an "infrared micro-ablative chamber". This chamber has a light source which is set at a very high setting. As the blood comes into the chamber, the light interacts with the hemoglobin in the blood and causes it to be drawn into the device, or "apparatus". Then, the blood is returned to the patient's body as it is eliminated via the vein. Low-level laser therapy has been tested for a wide range of conditions.

 

Blood irradiation

But what about intravenously? Is it not possible to have blood irradiation therapy applied to an intravenously exposed patient? It is possible, and the treatment can be given as a single shot (intravenously) or via IV. The method removes blood from the infected area, and this method was used in the treatment of malaria and yellow fever in the early twentieth century. The removal of the blood from the infected area causes scarring where it was drawn.

In IV or intravascular laser blood irradiation therapy, the intravenous or extracorporeally delivered light is pre-disposed against hemagglutination (red-green color) in the infected region. This allows the light to either induce a chain reaction of chemical reactions leading to necrosis or destruction of the infected tissue, or it may just cause the area to contract and eventually die. Either way, the end result is the same. The light damages or destroys cells that are carrying oxygen and nutrients to the site of the irradiation. As described above, they may also damage or destroy some of the red blood cells.

Extracorporeal blood irradiation therapy for cancer is one method that has been used for some time. High prevalence of cancer is expected to boost demand for the therapy. According to the World Health Organization’s Globocan 2020, Germany recorded 628,519 cases of cancer 252,065 cancer-related deaths in 2020.

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