Natural and preformed physical factors in the immunorehabilitation of psoriasis patients: The comparison of effectiveness

• Main Authors: Olha I.Lemko, Nataliya V. Vantyukh, Ivan S. Lemko
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Romanian Association of Balneology, Editura Balneara 2013-09-01
• Series: Balneo Research Journal
• Subjects: psoriasis; photobalneotherapy; haloaerosoltherapy; mineral water; immunity.
• Online Access: http://www.bioclima.ro/Balneo%20(49).pdf

64 psoriasis patients with moderate to severe form of the disease in its stationary stage and associated pathology of main excretory and detoxification systems were investigated. All patients were treated according to two medical complexes (MC). 32 patients were treated according to MC-1, which included sulphide mud applications at temperatures 420 C for 10-30 minutes; artificial brine baths of sodium chloride concentration of 60-120 g/l at a temperature of 380 C for 10-30 minutes; artificial ultraviolet irradiation up to 2 biodoses and daily (except Sunday) sessions of haloaerosoltherapy (artificial analogy of salt mine’s aerosol) lasting 60 minutes. The treatment duration was 3 weeks. Another group of patients (32 persons) received MC-2. This complex included procedures, according to MC-1, completed with additional internal use of carbonic middle-mineralised boric bicarbonate sodium mineral water Luzhanskaya-7 (the type of Vichy) with the aim of detoxification.