Geleneksel ve Tamamlayıcı Anadolu Tıbbı Dergisi 2757-7643 Sakarya University Clinical Sciences Klinik Tıp Bilimleri Outcomes of Ozone Therapy Administered as Prophylaxis or Treatment To Health Workers During The Covid-19 Pandemic Sağlık Çalışanlarına Covid 19 Pandemisi Sırasında Proflaktik veya Tedavi Amaçlı Uygulanan Ozonterapinin Etkileri https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7280-6420 Türkmen Ülkü Aygen SAĞLIK BİLİMLERİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İSTANBUL GAZİOSMANPAŞA SAĞLIK UYGULAMA VE ARAŞTIRMA MERKEZİ https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9647-1541 Tan Derya SAĞLIK BİLİMLERİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İSTANBUL GAZİOSMANPAŞA SAĞLIK UYGULAMA VE ARAŞTIRMA MERKEZİ, CERRAHİ TIP BİLİMLERİ BÖLÜMÜ, ANESTEZİYOLOJİ ANABİLİM DALI https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5138-1606 Özakın Oğuz SAĞLIK BİLİMLERİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İSTANBUL GAZİOSMANPAŞA SAĞLIK UYGULAMA VE ARAŞTIRMA MERKEZİ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8691-0886 Müslümanoğlu Ahmet Yaser SAĞLIK BİLİMLERİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İSTANBUL BAĞCILAR SAĞLIK UYGULAMA VE ARAŞTIRMA MERKEZİ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4229-4903 Genç Moralar Döndü SAĞLIK BİLİMLERİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İSTANBUL GAZİOSMANPAŞA SAĞLIK UYGULAMA VE ARAŞTIRMA MERKEZİ Çakır Ruhi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9021-8542 Kaya Ayfer SAĞLIK BİLİMLERİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İSTANBUL GAZİOSMANPAŞA SAĞLIK UYGULAMA VE ARAŞTIRMA MERKEZİ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3886-5424 Soylu Serhat SAĞLIK BİLİMLERİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İSTANBUL GAZİOSMANPAŞA SAĞLIK UYGULAMA VE ARAŞTIRMA MERKEZİ 09 25 2022 4 1 9 16 06 17 2021 09 23 2022 Copyright © 2019, Journal of Traditional and Complementary Anatolian Medicine 2019 Journal of Traditional and Complementary Anatolian Medicine

Health employees are at high risk for COVID-19 infection. At the same time, the need for healthcare professionals has increased during the pandemic process. And it isclear that we have to protect our employees, ozone is a beneficial method which has not any side effects. Therefore, it is important to minimize the transmission risk ofhealth employees and to support their immune systems. There are several studies demonstrating that ozone therapy supports the immune system. Moreover, ozone hasproven to be highly effective in inactivating bacteria, fungi, molds and viruses both on the surfaces and suspended in the air. Ozone might be effective on coronavirus aswell. In this study our findings will show protective effect of ozone on health employees. It is considered that ozone therapy is beneficial as a choice to increase protectionmethods and as supportive treatment for health employees. In our study, we aimed to examine the results of prophylactic or therapeutic ozone therapy which was appliedto volunteer health employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sağlık çalışanları COVID-19 enfeksiyonu için yüksek risk altındadır. Aynı zamanda pandemi sürecinde sağlık çalışanlarına olan ihtiyaç da artmıştır. Sağlık çalışanlarımızı korumamızgerekliliği kaçınılmazdır, ozon hiçbir yan etkisi olmayan faydalı bir yöntemdir. Bu nedenle sağlık çalışanlarına bulaş riskini en aza indirmek ve bağışıklık sistemlerini desteklemek önemlidir.Ozon tedavisinin bağışıklık sistemini desteklediğini gösteren birçok çalışma bulunmaktadır. Ayrıca ozonun hem yüzeylerde hem de havada asılı halde bulunan bakteri, mantar, küf ve virüslerietkisiz hale getirmede oldukça etkili olduğu kanıtlanmıştır. Ozon, koronavirüs üzerinde de etkili olabilir. Bu çalışmada bulgularımız ozonun sağlık çalışanları üzerindeki koruyucu etkisinigösterecektir. Ozon tedavisinin, sağlık çalışanlarını koruma yöntemlerini artırmada ve destekleyici tedavi olarak faydalı olduğu düşünülmektedir. Çalışmamızda, COVID-19 pandemisisürecinde gönüllü sağlık çalışanlarına uygulanan profilaktik veya terapötik ozon tedavisinin sonuçlarını incelemeyi amaçladık.

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