There’s a reason that this is promoted for diseases with no cure – people are desperate and therefore vulnerable and easier to exploit. The diseases people claim that hyperbaric oxygen therapy can treat remain uncured. There are only very few reasons hyperbaric oxygen chambers even exist, such as for vasculitic ulcers and of course The Bends. But for the past few years it’s being promoted to desperate people with Long Covid. In one story recounted from reddit, the person paid up front for a number of sessions in the hyperbaric oxygen so when they were in danger of bursting an ear drum, they actually said they went and got tubes in their ears that they didn’t need for any other reason than to finish the sessions, and then they later reported it really didn’t help anyway. Anti-vax covid minimizers and covid deniers at least 3 years ago started pushing hyperbaric oxygen treatment along with the rest of the weird unproven and later disproven covid cures like ivermectin. Some of those doctors have been prescribing this right-wing unproven stuff for covid and long covid, and some wrongly claim that long covid is actually typically caused by the vaccines, which defies evidence.
Often reputable facilities with the hyperbaric oxygen chamber equipment will deny service to people referred for stuff that’s not FDA approved, and so less reliable facilities are making money offering the treatments.
AP – 4 charged in death of 5-year-old boy ‘incinerated’ in hyperbaric chamber explosion By COREY WILLIAMS Updated 6:09 PM EDT, March 11, 2025 NBC News reported the family’s attorney said the boy received multiple sessions for sleep apnea and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. These conditions aren’t among those approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for marketing of hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment — a fact reiterated by Nessel, who described the boy’s treatment as “unsupported by medical science.”“Because these treatments were so medically unsound, patient insurance policies would not cover the use of these chambers to treat these conditions,” Nessel said. “This business was a pure cash-flow, for-profit business.”