Method and device to inactivate and kill cells and organisms that are undesirable
First Claim
1. A method of treating skin or nail infections of a user caused by microbes comprising:
- applying a dose of light to an infected patient using a light source and modifying the light by at least one of pulsing the light source, increasing the power of the light, using coherent light, and using wide band UV light, wherein the wide band UV light has only a small percentage of the light penetrating at each wavelength;
wherein the dose of light renders the microbes substantially incapable of reproducing or kills the microbe.
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Abstract
A method, means, and apparatus to prevent and treat infections and disorders using germicidal light to inactivate and/or kill the organisms or cells that cause infections and other disorders. The method of treatment comprises irradiating the area to be treated using electromagnetic radiation of a germicidal nature. The method utilizes a previously unrecognized ability of germicidal light to penetrate the skin, nails, and other membranes sufficiently to successfully treat and prevent disorders. The electromagnetic radiation damages the organisms and cells that cause disorders such as skin and nail infections and renders them substantially incapable of reproducing. Without the ability to replicate the organism cannot continue to infest the skin and nails. The damage inflicted can also be sufficient to kill the organism outright. An infection is thereby prevented (if organisms are present, but infection has not yet begun), and the infection is cured if the infection already exists.
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29 Claims
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1. A method of treating skin or nail infections of a user caused by microbes comprising:
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applying a dose of light to an infected patient using a light source and modifying the light by at least one of pulsing the light source, increasing the power of the light, using coherent light, and using wide band UV light, wherein the wide band UV light has only a small percentage of the light penetrating at each wavelength;
wherein the dose of light renders the microbes substantially incapable of reproducing or kills the microbe. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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2. A method of treating at cancer comprising applying a dose of electromagnetic radiation that has a substantial component in a wavelength less than 280 nm capable of directly altering the DNA or RNA of cancer cells and destroying the cancer cells by geneticide.
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3. A method of treating at least one of warts, boils and ringworm comprising applying a dose of electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength less than 280 nm capable of directly altering the DNA or RNA of the wart, boil or ringworm and destroying the wart, boil or ringworm cells by geneticide.
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4. A method of treating autoimmune disorders comprising applying to the epidermis of a patient a dose of electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength less than 280 nm capable of directly altering the DNA or RNA of epidermal cells, wherein the dose of electromagnetic radiation destroys scales in the epidermis by geneticide.
- 6. A method of treating a disease caused by a virus comprising applying to the epidermis of a patient a dose of electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength less than 280 nm capable of directly altering the DNA or RNA of the virus and destroying the virus by geneticide.
- 8. A method of treating a transplant organs comprising applying a dose of electromagnetic radiation having a substantial component of germicidal light less than 400 nm capable of directly altering the DNA or RNA of microbes in the organ sufficient to cause geneticide of the microbes.
- 13. A method of treating wounds infected with at least one organism comprising applying to the skin of a patient a does of electromagnetic radiation that has a substantial component in a wavelength between about 240 nm and 260 nm and capable of directly altering the DNA or RNA of the organism and destroying the organism by geneticide.
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15. A method for treating skin or nail infections caused by microbes comprising:
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determining a dose of germicidal light necessary to inactivate or kill the microbes at a constant energy level for a predetermined amount of time;
selecting a light source sufficient to provide electromagnetic radiation containing said dose of germicidal light to the microbes; and
providing said electromagnetic radiation as a pulsed light, wherein said pulse light has at least the same amount of germicidal light as said dose of germicidal light determined at a constant energy level, wherein the pulsed light is capable of rendering the microbes substantially incapable of reproducing or kills the microbe by geneticide. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method for treating skin or nail infections caused by microbes comprising:
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determining a dose of germicidal light necessary to inactivate or kill the microbes at a constant energy level for a predetermined amount of time;
selecting a light source sufficient to provide a first amount of electromagnetic radiation containing said dose of germicidal light to the microbes; and
conditioning said light source to provide an enhanced amount of electromagnetic radiation greater in wavelengths less than 400 nm than said first amount of electromagnetic radiation and wherein the enhanced amount of light has a total amount of radiation less than the first amount of electromagnetic radiation;
wherein either said first amount of electromagnetic radiation or said enhanced amount of electromagnetic radiation is capable of rendering the microbes substantially incapable of reproducing or kills the microbe. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24)
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