How The Salt Room Helps Treat Your Asthma

Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease that affects around 300 million people around the world including a large proportion of children. Around 7% of the US population are victims of asthma. Every year asthma claims 4,000 lives in the US alone. Prescription drugs and inhalers may bring immediate relief but an asthma attack can recur at any time. Halotherapy treatment will not only ease your symptoms but also prevents its frequent recurrence.

Impact The Salt Room Will Have on Your Asthma

A patient suffering from asthma will find relief from halotherapy treatment as it helps widen your airways as well as humidifies and fluidizes the bronchial secretions in the bronchial tree, thereby reducing bronchospasm. Halotherapy provides natural asthma treatment as it absorbs the edema from the mucosa lining the airway passages, having natural non-steroidal anti-inflammatory properties. An asthma patient will start breathing easily after just a few sessions. These sessions will also decrease your coughing and your dependence on asthma inhalers and drugs. A complete treatment regiment of 7-15 sessions will provide benefits for as long as 6-12 months.

How Asthma Treatment at The Salt Room Works

Halotherapy treatment 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 patient is able to relax in the halochamber which offers spa like atmosphere. Children suffering from asthma are not even aware that they are being treated.

Dry sodium chloride aerosol containing particles of 1-5 um in size are produced and pushed 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 with a particle size of 1-5 um. Typically asthma treatment involves drugs which include steroids that may have harmful side effects. The only side affects a patient may feel from halotherapy treatment are a slight skin irritation and a mild throat tickle. Sometimes small patches of skin rashes stage an appearance but disappear as treatment progresses.

Asthma Symptoms We Can Help You With

Asthma is a disease of the lungs where the patient often experiences a feeling of suffocation. Allergy asthma is common as an asthma attack is often triggered by allergens like pollen and dust. In the course of an asthma attack, the smooth muscle cells in the bronchi constrict, the airways become inflamed and swollen and the patient finds breathing difficult. Symptoms usually displayed by asthma patients include nighttime coughing, shortness of breath with exertion but no dyspnea at rest, a chronic ‘throat-clearing’ type cough, and complaints of a tight feeling in the chest.

In case of a severe attack the patient may turn blue owing to lack of oxygen and even lose consciousness. A severe asthmatic attack can prove fatal. Medications used to bring relief include antibiotics, bronchodilators and corticosteroids which have many adverse side affects in the long run. If you or your child is suffering from these asthma conditions, contact The Salt Room now so that we can help you breathe easier with our drug-free treatment.