We are in total awe this morning, following the announcement that doctors have been able to reverse brain damage in a two-year-old child.

 

Little Eden Carlson was left brain damaged when she fell into her family’s swimming pool, in February last year. She spent 15 minutes in the water, before her mother found her.

 

Eden’s mum administered CPR until paramedics arrived. The tot, who was rushed to hospital, suffered cardiac arrest.

 

Thankfully, medics were able to revive Eden, but the lack of oxygen to her brain during that time in the pool resulted in serious injury. Eden was left unable to speak, walk or respond to verbal cues.

 

 

The prognosis looked bleak when Eden was discharged from hospital after 48 days; however, Doctor Paul Harch, from LSU Health New Orleans, had an idea.

 

Harch decided to put Eden on a course of oxygen treatments, to see if it would help to improve her condition in any way. The results of his experiment, as reported in the Medical Gas Research journal, are astonishing.

 

Harch and his team have managed to reverse Eden’s brain damage, with her parents describing her as back to ‘near normal’.

 

Eden was given oxygen at a higher pressure than normal, increasing the levels in her blood and repairing the damaged tissue.

 

These treatment sessions lasted 45 minutes a day, and were administered to Eden twice daily. When she began to get the movement back in her arms and hands, and speak in short spurts, Harch decided to step things up a gear.

 

 

Eden was brought to a hospital in New Orleans, where she could avail of intense treatment in a hyperbaric chamber. 10 sessions and an MRI later, and Eden’s parents reported incredible results.

 

While Eden still has mild residual brain injury, the damage she sustained to her cortical and white matter has been almost completely reversed.

 

Opening up about the treatment, Harch wrote: “In the absence of hyperbaric oxygen therapy; short duration, repetitive normobaric oxygen therapy may be an option until hyperbaric oxygen therapy is available.”

 

This is truly incredible – we’re wishing Eden all the best with the rest of her journey.

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