How The Salt Room And Sauna Can Help Your Asthma
A patient suffering from asthma may find relief with Salt Therapy as it helps widen your airways as well as humidifies and fluidizes the bronchial secretions in the bronchial tree, thereby reducing bronchospasm. Salt therapy provides a natural asthma treatment as it absorbs the edema from the mucosa lining the airway passages, with salts natural anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties. An asthma patient might start breathing easily after just a few sessions. These sessions may also decrease your coughing and your dependence on asthma inhalers and drugs. A complete treatment regiment of 5-15 sessions might provide potential benefits for as long as 6-12 months. For those clients that want to maintain the benefits of salt therapy with regular use, we have several memberships available that offer unlimited sessions of salt therapy each month.
Salt Therapy Recreates The Natural Microclimate In Salt Caves And Mines.
But unlike Speleotherapy, where the patient is taken into a natural salt cave, halotherapy provides the additional benefit of treatment in controlled conditions. The temperature, humidity and sodium chloride flow are constantly monitored to give optimum effect. The client is able to relax in the halochamber which offers a spa like atmosphere.
Dry sodium chloride aerosol containing particles of 1-5 microns in size are blown into this room by a halogenerator. In order to treat asthma, the environment is saturated with dry sodium chloride aerosol at a mass concentration varying from 1-16 mg/m3 . Typically asthma treatment involves drugs which include steroids that may have harmful side effects. Salt therapy has no side effects or negative interaction with other medication.
