Baby Arm Ischaemia and Necrosis

Dear Bioptron Team,

My son was born emergency c-section at 38 weeks premature and the pregnancy entirely normal. He was diagnosed with ISCHAEMIA NECROSIS OF THE ARMS which described as blood clots within the skin tissue that looked like lesions. He was rushed to the neonatal unit at National Women's in Auckland and heat lamps were placed above his bed which caused the large like lesions to form dry scabs.

On the advice of the plastic surgeon no moist wound dressing or water was permitted on the area, as any infection would precipitate the need for surgery and to allow secondary healing to be the best solution. I was relieved that my son would not require surgery, as the pain he suffered from birth was unbearable even though the arms were bandaged he still cried in pain from any movement.

His face was distressed and so was mine and I felt so helpless. Nobody had any answers as to why or even how long my son's arms would take to heal. The size of the lesions were so large that the doctors knew it would be at least 6 months before any positive result and my son would have to endure the suffering.

I knew of the Bioptron lights and decided we would start treatment straight away under the care of Lee McInroe at The West Auckland Bioptron Light Therapy Clinic. The wounds required a nurse to change the bandages and we had this done at every treatment so the light would be able to come in contact with the skin.

Our first visit was on the 5th of November then we did three visits a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for two weeks. We found the bandage removal caused a great deal of pain on his arms at the beginning but the pain decreased dramatically and we noticed a change in the skin area around the wounds but within the dry scabs you could see the light made the blood cells glow a bright red and I felt that this is going to work. The nurse said there was improvement of circulation and the tissue looked healthy.

We changed visits to twice a week every Monday and Friday from November 24th to December the 19th. The dry scabs started to fall off to reveal healthy skin on his left arm and by this time his arms were now completely pain free, flapping his arms and moving his legs about like a wiggly worm running a marathon.

There was no treatment during Christmas and New Year but on January 2nd 2004 we went to the clinic for light treatment. We removed the bandage and my son would not keep his arm still and after 10 minutes of light treatment the dry scabs on his right arm fell off to reveal perfectly healthy skin.

I was told Bioptron lights heal by accelerating the body's natural healing process without having to use any sort of ointment or medicinal product and I took into consideration the doctor's orders and thought the lights are the perfect option.

I was sceptical at first because I felt my son's condition was too enormous to expect a miracle but lo and behold I was proved wrong. In less than three months my son is healed. I felt pure relief of not having to fear possible infection or listen to my son cry in pain.

During the visits at the clinic, information was made available to me regarding the lights and how they work. I took further study on the Internet and found it comforting in knowing that no harm would come to my son during treatment.

I had to look upon it as just what they are LIGHT but different to a light bulb and yet similar to the sun because we all know that the sun stimulates vitamin A and E but to see the result was a true miracle.

I would like to take this time to thank those whom were involved for helping this to be made possible thank you.

Sincerely yours,
M. Ransfield
Auckland