How ozone therapy works
Why must ozone never be inhaled?
Ozone is toxic to the lungs. Our ozone studies page states that ozone is toxic if inhaled and that medical applications must use strictly controlled routes such as topical, transdermal, injection or autohemotherapy. That is why an ozone sauna keeps your head outside the cabinet with the neck opening covered.
The warning, in full
Ozone is toxic to the lungs if inhaled, and medical applications must use strictly controlled administration methods. Ozone at high levels in air can harm the respiratory system and the eyes, and breathing it can cause chest tightness and coughing.
If someone has breathed ozone
Sauna concentrations are low, and keeping the head outside with the neck opening covered prevents exposure. To get out, open the doors and step out. To stop the ozone, switch the sauna off at its wall socket once you’re out. If ozone has been breathed, follow the steps on feeling unwell.
How the equipment manages it
- Sauna design. Head outside, neck opening covered.
- Ventilation. Ozone escaping through the neck opening and seals is off-gassing — gas released from an enclosure into the air around it. On nearly twenty years of operation we consider normal room ventilation sufficient: an open door and window clear it, and the concentrator needs that room air anyway.
- Ozone destructors. These convert residual ozone back to oxygen. We do not think they are cost-justified for a sauna, because much of the ozone has reverted to oxygen by the end of a session and moisture in the sauna converts ozone to hydrogen peroxide. If one is used, it must be a wet-airstream type.
- Training. Every ozone sauna comes with the operating manual and training videos for your model, and after-sales support by email and phone.
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