A significant amount of scientific and clinical research has been conducted which demonstrates how salt therapy – especially as it is practiced at The Salt Room in Orlando, Florida, can help treat and alleviate a variety of cystic fibrosis symptoms.
Cystic Fibrosis can make life difficult and even cut it drastically short. More and more people are turning to Salt therapy treatment which offers you a long-term drug-free cure. How does Salt therapy treat you?
How Salt Therapy at The Salt Room Works for Cystic Fibrosis
A patient suffering from cystic fibrosis will relax in The Salt Room’s halochamber for about an hour. Dry aerosol micro particles of salt and minerals are used to treat the cystic fibrosis sufferer. Sophisticated equipment ensures a steady supply of clean dry air saturated with highly dispersed particles of sodium chloride. Dry sodium chloride aerosol at a mass concentration varying from 1-16 mg/m3 with a particle size of 1-5 um brings you relief from the symptoms of cystic fibroses.
A highly advanced computer embedded in The Salt Room’s halogenerator maintains and monitors the temperature, relative humidity and mass of aerosol in the chamber. The temperature in the salt therapy room varies between 68-78 degrees Fahrenheit. Humidity ranges from 40-50%. The Salt Room in Orlando’s treatment rooms also boasts of a high concentration of negative ions which repel each other and do not form clusters. This ensures a high dispersal rate. As dry salt particles have greater surface energy than moist particles, they maker a deeper impact on your respiratory tract.
When a patient at The Salt Room in Orlando inhales aerosolized micro particles around 10 microns in diameter, they are trapped in the upper airways. The mucociliary system however throws them out, thereby clearing the airways. Micro particles below 5 microns succeed in finding their way into every nook and corner of bronchi, bronchioles, and alveoli and deposit upon the surface.
These micro particles are responsible for reducing the viscosity of the mucus and helps restore the normal mucociliary flow. They also cleanse the respiratory tract of mucus, pathogens, and debris, helping the cystic fibrosis patient feel better.
Scientific Evidence of Salt Therapy’s Impact on Cystic Fibrosis
If you have cystic fibrosis, Salt therapy treatment at The Salt Room in Orlando will reduce the inflammation of the respiratory tract. Salt therapy treatment helps in absorbing edema from the mucosa lining the airway passages thereby widening them and making breathing easier. It also restores the normal flow of mucus by removing blockages in the bronchi and bronchioles. Salt therapy treatment at The Salt Room also reduces your infection by killing bacteria and viruses and clears the respiratory tract of all allergens like dust, smoke or pollen. After 7-15 salt therapy sessions your airways are clearer, coughing decreases, and you can breathe easily. Children and adults with cystic fibrosis feel better, develop a greater resistance to the disease and are able to lead a more normal life.
Clinical Research Supports The Effectiveness of Salt Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis
According to an abstract by Wark V. McDonald, PAB who studied effect of Nebulised hypertonic saline for cystic fibrosis: “The lung disease in cystic fibrosis is characterized by impaired mucociliary clearance, recurrent bronchial infection and airway inflammation. Hypertonic saline has been shown to enhance mucociliary clearance in-vitro and this may act to lessen the destructive inflammatory process in the airways.”
Cystic Fibrosis Symptoms The Salt Room Can Help You With
If you are a patient of cystic fibrosis you are likely to display symptoms like salty tasting skin, normal appetite but poor growth and poor weight gain, excess mucus production, frequent chest infections and coughing/shortness of breath. You will also suffer from frequent lung infections. Males may also suffer from infertility.
Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease due to a defect gene which manifests itself in childhood. These genes are passed down as cystic fibrosis when both parent are carriers. Most individuals who have cystic fibrosis succumb to the disease. Cystic fibrosis tests like newborn screening, sweat testing, or genetic testing can help diagnose the disease. Treatment is through antibiotics and bronchodilators which bring only temporary relief. If you or your child is suffering from cystic fibrosis, please contact us now. The Salt Room’s treatment can help improve the quality of your life.