Ozone and Bruising
What Happens When We Get a Bruise?
What happens when we get a bruise or what’s known as Ecchymosis? A bruise is the result of blood vessels under the skin rupturing from an injury. The discoloration is from blood that collects under the skin. Depending on how bad the injury is and how deep it goes, bruising can sometimes take a few days to appear and can be brown, black or purple in color. If a large enough vessel is damaged a large hematoma (blood filled area) can appear before discoloration is seen. Bruising can last for a couple days to a couple weeks depending on severity and location. Areas where there is limited blood flow is where bruising will take the longest to go away.
Age and Fragility of Blood Vessels
Superficial bruising directly in the skin or right below is very common as we age due to the blood vessels becoming fragile. This can be called Purpura or Petechiae depending on the size, they look like red or purple spots. Micro capillaries in the epidermis itself can rupture from a gentle bump on an elderly persons hand or arm. This can happen in someone younger too depending on their health and certain medical conditions, especially for those on prescription blood thinners.
Nutritional Support for Healing
Bruises are unsightly and most people want them to go away as fast as possible. What can be done to speed the healing process or perhaps prevent premature fragility of blood vessels? Bioflavonoids like those found in fruits and vegetables like parsley, peppers, brussel sprouts, grapes, berries, plumbs can strengthen blood vessel linings. Other nutrients such as Vitamin C, Vitamin K, bromelain and zinc all play important roles as well. Collagen and Oxygen are vital to the integrity of the vessel walls remain soft and flexible to withstand the impact of minor bumps and scratches. Alcohol and caffeine weaken the vessel walls so avoidance is helpful if you want to act preventatively, best to abstain completely when healing from an injury.
Immediate Injury Response
Immediately when an injury first takes place, you must stop the bleeding. This when its best to use pressure, compressing the area to stop the flow of blood, applying ice packs to help constrict blood vessels and control inflammation. After a day or so then you begin to increase the circulation and flow of oxygen to induce faster healing.
Ozone Therapy for Bruising
Ozone saunas increase both cellular oxygenation as well as circulation directly to the injury. Ozone soap can used to clean the area and Ozone Skin Salve can be applied directly throughout the day. Ozone saunas are great but you can’t do them everyday like to you can with Ozone Charged products. Ozone increases the vascularization of damaged tissues. Even if its applied topically it can increase micro circulatory pathways and heal damaged vessels. Ozone also stimulates growth factors for faster healing. These include Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) Platelet Derived Growth Factor (PDGF) and Transforming Growth Factor – beta (TGF-b).
Clinical Experience and Results
When patients would come into our clinic with bruising we would give them Ozone Skin Salve to use. They would notice significantly increased healing times. After a difficult IV start, blood draw or intramuscular injection we would use Ozone Skin Salve right away and in some cases it would prevent what would’ve been a nasty bruise. Instead they would have little to no noticeable skin discoloration.
Personal Observations and Feedback
I’d often give out small sample containers of Ozone Skin Salve to patients who had Petechiae or Purpura just to see how they would respond. They’d often return to purchase a large jar and with humor they would ask if they could use it on their whole body. Ozone Skin Salve is so versatile and when its used regularly the benefits get better and better. I have found that the elderly in particular benefit tremendously from the increased levels of oxygen in their skin.
Looking to the Future
It was neat to have several thousand people over the last 20 years use our products. I had so much fun making new formulas and giving out samples to get nearly immediate feedback. It was like having a massive test group over a substantial period of time to really see what worked and how well. All too often patients would volunteer to be “guinea pigs” for new formulations. People with specific auto immune conditions would want a custom made product and I was happy to make it for them but it wasn’t feasible to bring it to market on a large scale.
New Products on the Horizon
There will be new Ozone Charged products released in the next few years that we’re currently developing and testing. We’re so excited to be able to share our formulations with everyone on a massive scale now that we have refined our production methods and capabilities. Look for new products coming soon!
Here are a few neat studies: