Safety, contraindications and screening
Should I speak to my doctor before booking an ozone sauna session?
Speak to your doctor before an ozone sauna session if you have any diagnosed condition, take prescription medication or are simply unsure. Our guidance tells anyone with a heart condition, a pacemaker, thyroid disease or a clotting disorder to consult a healthcare professional first, and everyone to check when in doubt.
We tell clients to consult and notify their doctors when starting ozone therapy, and to check with a GP whenever they are in any doubt. Take that at face value.
Bring your doctor specifics rather than a general question. Useful things to put in front of them:
- What the session involves: sitting in an enclosed steam cabinet with the head outside for roughly 30 minutes. Ozone reaches about 47 ppm through the whole air volume of the sauna at a constant 2 l/min oxygen feed from a 500 mg/h generator, adjustable in 10 steps of 10%. Every model in the range adds 12 micron far infrared.
- Our list of who should not use an ozone sauna, so they can check it against your history.
- Every medication you take and when you take it. If you take any medication, ask your doctor or pharmacist whether to time your session around it. Never skip, delay or move a prescribed dose to fit a session. For vitamin C or supplements, our guidance is to leave 1 to 2 hours before or after a session.
- Any implanted device, recent surgery, chemotherapy or pregnancy plans.
Ozone therapy’s legal and clinical status varies widely between countries; in some it is a supervised medical procedure and in others it is unregulated. Your doctor’s view, and local law, both outrank a manufacturer’s website — including ours.