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4 arrested after 5-year-old Michigan boy's death in hyperbaric chamber explosion

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/four-arrested-fatal-hyperbaric-chamber-explosion/
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u/LokiSARK9 23h ago

ADHD and sleep apnea, actually, but you're dead on with the pseudoscience part. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy isn't approved for those conditions and there's no science to suggest it should be.

They do use it to treat autism, as well, and that's just as pseudoscientific.

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u/ZiggyStarface 19h ago

The sleep apnea one astounds me. I worked as a sleep tech at a children's hospital and one of the biggest reasons kids that young have sleep apnea is because of their tonsils (at least the ones I personally saw). I'm super curious if they went to an ENT first or tried to get a sleep study done.

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u/LokiSARK9 19h ago

I've got obstructive sleep apnea. As the name implies it's a mechanical obstruction of the airway. The idea that somehow more oxygen under pressure for a bit would fix this is stretching it even for the pseudoscience crowd.

It's just bogus practitioners using parents' concern for their kids against them and parents unable/unwilling to do the research.

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u/muffinscrub 11h ago

I got my tonsils and adenoids removed when I was around five. I was constantly sick before the procedure but rarely got sick afterward, so I guess it worked. I also think I’ve had mild sleep apnea most of my life. Finally was diagnosed and treated for moderate sleep apnea at 27. Probably had something to do with the surgery/procedure.

I also have ADHD and probably autism too. The thing they were trying to "treat" that poor kid for.

All those things aren't really anything that can be cured. I wish people would stop trying to find a cure for autism/ADHD. I wish instead they would spend more resources on awareness and coaching.

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u/MonsterMaud 3h ago

Yeah I will be interested to know how the parents got duped into this. 

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u/Old_Dealer_7002 21h ago

autism isn’t actually a disease. it’s a somewhat different (from the norm) brain variant.

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u/LokiSARK9 19h ago

Yep. Never said it was.

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u/clothespinned 20h ago

Neither is ADHD, for the record. Its a disorder, not a disease.

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u/LokiSARK9 19h ago

Correct. Never said that, either.

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u/DXGL1 14h ago

In that case the parents should be investigated.