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1. What is Salt Therapy?
Salt Therapy is a high dispersion saline aerosol microclimate treatment. It is a therapeutic method based on the principle of natural salt mine’s microclimate (Speleotherapy), which is prolonged exposure to the specific microclimate of caves and salt mines. It’s a patented method where dry salt aerosol plays an important role in the relief of health problems, and is used for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, and other respiratory problems.
2. How does Salt Therapy work?
Salt Therapy uses patented state of the art technology - a Dry Saline Aerosol Diffuser - to reproduce the atmosphere of the salt caves/salt mines with a monitored therapeutic microclimate. The air coming from the medical device is ionized and saturated with a natural substance - a low concentration of curative highly dispersed aerosol of dry saline (salt). Patients sit in an artificial salt cave, breathe in the dry agent, which is immediately transported to the smallest bronchia and to other parts of the respiratory tract. Once in place it dissolves and attracts the small impurities which are later either coughed up by the patient or which leave the organism during the metabolic processes via the bloodstream. The treatment eliminates the root of all inflammatory respiratory illnesses by destroying bacteria and restoring health.
3. Which symptoms can be treated by Salt Therapy?
- chronic bronchitis
- asthma
- hay fever
- ear infection
- breathlessness, chest tightness
- pneumonia after acute stage
- bronchiectatic disease
- smoker's cough (including secondary smoke)
- cough with viscous sputum discharging with difficulties
- frequent acute disorders of respiratory tract
- multi-chemical sensitivity syndrome
- sinusitis/sinus inflammation
- respiratory infections
- respiratory allergies to industrial and household pollutants
- rhinitis
- tonsillitis
- eczema
- psoriasis
4. What results can patients expect?
Doctors have noted that thousands of patients have been successfully treated by Speleotherapy (treatment in natural salt caves) method in Canada, Russia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Austria and Germany since 1940. After taking treatments, their breathing became easier, symptoms such as sneezing, coughing and shortness of breath were improved, medical drug usage has decreased significantly. Salt Therapy mimics the natural salt environment and patients experience positive results in as soon as 7-30 days.
5. How is health improvement of the patients manifested?
As a result of the therapy, the state of the bronchi is restored, breathing becomes easier and the quality of the function of breathing improves. This leads to the normalization of other bodily systems. Thanks to the stronger immune system sick days will decrease and patients will be more resilient. In the case of patients suffering from asthma and croup symptoms the inflammation causing the spasms of the bronchus will stop, and the airing of the bronchial tube will be normalized leading to the end of attacks.
6. Is Salt Therapy recommended for children?
Salt Therapy is a 100% drug free treatment with no artificial elements. The treatment is suitable for children from the age of 6 months. Children respond to the therapy very quickly and effectively.
7. What are the advantages of salt therapy compared to medicine?
Salt therapy is a risk free treatment method. While modern pharmaceuticals provide effective relief from chronic diseases, there are serious side effects associated with repeated or prolonged use. Continuous drug therapy is associated with the possible development of allergic or toxic reactions, and long term immune system destruction.
8. How safe is salt therapy?
Salt Therapy is 100% natural, safe and drug-free. It provides effective long-term relief from various respiratory illnesses. It can be used as a complementary treatment or as a sole treatment.
9. What advantages does salt therapy has over the original salt mine cave environment?
Unlike the natural cave/salt mine clinic, the artificial salt room with our special dry saline diffuser is a controlled environment where the salt aerosol concentration, temperature and humidity are constant and the size of the salt aerosol is controlled. The air is hypobacterial, allergen free and saturated with dry sodium chloride aerosol. A session in our salt room takes 60 minutes and patients come back 10-30 times depending on their condition. Meanwhile, in a natural salt cave, people spend 2-3 hours a day, during a period of 2-3 months.
10. Why do children suffer more often from respiratory illnesses?
The natural self defense mechanism of the respiratory system is not fully developed before the age 9. During this period even larger particles of pollution can reach their lungs as the body cannot filter them out.
The second reason is that than children are shorter therefore they are breathing in the air lower. The air is always more polluted closer to the ground.
The third reason is that children are breathing the air in much more often than adults do. Therefore they are breathing in more polluted air with not fully developed filtering system than adults.
11. Why do you have salt in the room?
The 6 tons of salt on the walls and the floor was applied to keep the room sterile and create a climate as in a salt cave. The Dry Saline Diffuser device is responsible for the curative microclimate.
12. Why is relative humidity important in the room?
The humidity has to be between 40-70% in the room. If the air is too dry or too humid the efficiency of the therapy will drop as the particles cannot get into the smallest parts of the lungs (alveoli). This is why fountains or other water related appliances cannot be installed in a salt cave.
13. What can I do with my small children/toddlers during the therapy?
We have a play corner in the salt room with plenty of books, toys, and games to keep your child entertained.
14. Why is it so relaxing inside?
Salt has the natural ability to balance the positive charge by binding the excessive positive ions with its negative ions. Therefore, the neutralizing forces of salt can cancel out positive charged and harmful electromagnetic vibrations in our environment, as well as in our body. Hence, salt therapy has de-stressing, relaxing effects; it is beneficial for calming the nervous system.
15. I thought salt is not good for us. Why is it good in the lungs?
Eating too much salt is linked to high blood pressure, which can increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes. However, with salt therapy you will breathe the dry saline aerosol into the respiratory system, it does not go to your stomach, heart, and kidneys. The concentration is 1-10 mg/m3 is in the salt room and a normal adult's daily recommended salt intake is 6g, from this you can see that the amount of salt going into your respiratory system is really low. Even if you would eat it instead of breathing it that amount would not trigger any issue. In the lungs however it kills the bacteria, reduce the mucus and inflammation.
16. How sterile is the microclimate in the salt room?
The microclimate is 3 times cleaner in the salt room than in a sterile surgery room in a hospital, therefore, it is almost impossible to catch any infection or bacteria during the therapy.
A stable hypoallergenic, hypobacterial environment is maintained in the therapeutic room.
17. How many sessions are recommended?
For people with colds, flu symptoms, ear infections or other temporary respiratory discomforts, 1 to 8 sessions can be very effective. For chronic respiratory and dermatological conditions such as asthma, bronchitis, sinusitis, allergies, psoriasis, etc., it is strongly recommended to complete 12 to 20 sessions of 45 minutes each, in as short a time period as is feasible. Salt room treatment is most effective when it is administered at least twice a week or more frequently. It is advisable to repeat the therapy 1 to 3 times per year to maintain the positive results. For recreational, relaxation and stress relieving purposes, sessions can be taken as many times as desired.
18. What should I wear to the treatment sessions?
For salt therapy you don't need to wear any special clothes when you come to us. We will provide shoe covers for the therapy.
The only preparation we recommend is to not to wear perfumes, scanted body lotion before or during the therapy as many of our clients are allergic to them.
19. When should salt treatment be avoided?
- High blood pressure diseases
- Patients who have cardiac insufficiency
- Pregnant women
- Anyone under an asthma attack
- Chronic obstructive lung diseases
20. Are there side effects?
Rarely. Some people get slight skin irritation that disappears after a few sessions. Individuals with a lot of mucous will experience increased coughing after a treatment. This is due to the body’s way of responding to the salt treatment by draining out the excessive mucous.
21. Should I stop using traditional medications during salt therapy?
No. Salt room therapy is compliantly treatment with the goal of decreasing respiratory symptoms. Individuals receiving treatment prove to reduce their dependence on certain medications. As always, consult with your doctor before undergoing any medical changes.