Can oxygen be prescribe to some one recovering form broken bones for home use ?
Doesn’t sound like you needed oxygen – at 15 years old you’ll have the lungs of a horse, quite capable of delivering oxygen to your blood. Your blood can only take a certain amount of oxygen – at 15 years old your blood would be saturated with oxygen at about 98-100% just breathing normal air. There’s no evidence to say that breathing oxygen as a supplement helps bone healing, unless there’s something wrong with the lungs that prevents them working efficiently. In fact, breathing lots of oxygen is toxic over a long time – you get lots of free radicals hanging around in your lungs and bloodstream that damage cells rather than helping them. Some people have trouble with sleep apnoea, which is when the air passages collapse and block breathing. That means they keep waking up many times in the night, usually without realising it in the morning. A sleep study can look for this – but’s very unusual in young people, more common in fat people and those with small necks and constricted air pass
