One disease treatment that has become popular of late is 10-pass ozone, a very potent and intensive type of ozone therapy that apparently goes deeper into the body and is more effective at eliminating  disease pathogens than standard intravenous ozone. It was created by an Austrian gynecologist named Dr. Johann Lahodny, and it is also called the Lahodny or Zotzmann method, or Ozone High Dose Therapy.

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Ten-pass ozone therapy resembles a treatment called Major Autohemotherapy (MAH), with some important differences. In both MAH and 10-pass ozone, blood is drawn from the patient and mixed with ozone, which has the effect of killing microbes and cleansing the blood. The blood is then reinserted back into the patient. One type of MAH, called Hyperbaric MAH, involves filling up a bottle with 200-220 ml of the patient’s blood, and then creating hyperbaric-like pressure inside of the bottle. Then, ozone is added and the mixture of blood and ozone are vigorously shakento increase ozone (or oxygen, since ozone becomes oxygen in the body)– absorption into the cells.  The hyperbaric pressure protects the red blood cells from damage during the process.

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One 10-pass treatment is about the equivalent of ten hyperbaric MAH treatments, but is different from MAH in that it uses higher concentrations of ozone. The blood draw-infusion process is done ten times; hence the term “10 pass” and takes 1-2 hours. The amount of ozone supplied to the body is about 140,000 ug, and heparin is given to the patient to keep the blood from coagulating. By comparison, a hyperbaric Major Autohemotherapy (MAH) provides about 6,000 ug of ozone, and a regular ozone IV only 3,000 ug of ozone. This means that ten-pass ozone supplies nearly 50 times the amount of ozone of a regular intravenous ozone treatment.

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In summary, because the 10-pass method of ozone administration provides a greater amount of ozone to the body, in a shorter amount of time, it better saturates the red blood cells with oxygen, which allows it to penetrate deeper and greater areas of the body. Some practitioners, such as Peter Jovanovic PhD, (Hon.), MD, Founder and CEO of Ozone Research Group Inc. contend that it can even eliminate cyst forms of the Lyme disease organism, the main causative agent of Lyme disease relapses.

 

Dr. Lahodny, the developer of the ten-pass method, recommends up to daily administrations of high dose ozone for up to a month for certain diseases. However, a person who is highly infected with Lyme disease organisms may not be able to tolerate this much therapy. Some other practitioners may give their patients as little as one treatment per week. So far, anecdotal reports from patients and practitioners indicate that those that have gone into remission from high dose ozone therapy have needed anywhere from about 10-30 treatments.

 

The main disadvantage of 10-pass ozone is its price. At around $1,000 for one treatment, many people with Lyme disease may not be able to afford it. A few practitioners may charge as little as $500 per treatment, and a few clinics overseas are less expensive. Amazingly, Dr. Lahodny charges only about 100 Euro at his clinic in Austria, although patients from the United States and other countries may yet find the expense of travel to another country to do the treatment, to be less than what the treatments would cost at home.

 

Doctors have been using ozone therapy for years, but 10-pass ozone takes ozone treatment to a whole new level. However, as it has only been used in the United States for a short period of time—perhaps two years, at most, there is still not enough research or anecdotal evidence to know what the long-term, 10-pass ozone benefits or side effects will be for Lyme patients

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As no clinical trials or long-term studies have been done on 10-pass ozone and Lyme disease, those who are interested in doing it will need to rely upon anecdotal evidence from doctors and patients who have tried it, for more information. Ozone may be safer and more effective than other more popular treatments that are out there, including long-term antibiotic therapy and even herbal remedies. Granted, healing isn’t just about eliminating microbes, but restoring the whole body, so doing the right antimicrobial treatment, in and of itself, isn’t likely to be sufficient for most people anyway—but doing a highly effective antimicrobial treatment- which 10-pass ozone may prove to be- can sure help to shorten the treatment runway for most.