Friday, January 1st, 2010

Salt Therapy for Snoring

A blog called “Sleep and Snoring Aids” recently published a short article describing how salt therapy can be an effective treatment all-natural treatment for snoring. It makes a lot of sense — if your nasal cavity and sinuses are filled with mucus, the obstruction in your air flow may be the cause of your snoring and salt therapy/halotherapy could certainly be an effective cure.

According to the Salt Cave Peterborough web site:

Salt Therapy can also reduce snoring and activate better sleep by clearing the airway passages in the oropharyngeal region. Edema of the nasal mucosa and the oropharynx and soft palate, causing nasal obstruction and snoring, can be diminished by inhaling the salt aerosol, leading to widening of the airway passage in the nose and the tubes of the sinuses. By this, halotherapy can help with improving the sinus drainage and reducing snoring.

Whether or not salt therapy can stop your snoring of course depends on several things: blockage caused by mucus and other sinus issues? Probably. But there are many other reasons for snoring that salt therapy probably can’t help with. According to Wikipedia, snoring has a variety of causes including throat weakness, mispositioned jaw, fat gathering around the throat, tissues at the top of the airways touching each other, alcohol or drugs, and even simply sleeping on one’s back.

While it is fairly certain that salt therapy treatment will do nothing to harm you and can’t make your snoring condition any worse, your best bet is to consult with your doctor in regards to the cause of your snoring before you take any action.

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Friday, December 18th, 2009

Maynooth Salt Cave Opens in Ireland

The Irish Times recently published a story about the Salt Cave Climatherapy Clinic, Ireland’s first salt treatment facility which opened about six months ago in a small shopping center in Maynooth, Co Kildare. What perhaps makes this Salt Cave stand out from many of the others that have opened recently is the fact that there is no visible salt: no salt on the walls, no salt on the floor — no salt anywhere to be seen.

Until you turn on a laser. Then it becomes readily apparent that the air is filled with tiny pharmaceutical grade salt particles floating in the air.

The new facility was opened by Dr. Tamas Bakonyi who moved to Ireland and started the Salt Cave after seeing how one of their children was able to recover from a persistent cough after spending time after spending time in a salt cave on a trip back to his home country of Hungary. He believes that his salt cave will help many people with respiratory conditions including sinusitis, bronchitis, and asthma and he offers them as an alternative to antibiotics, inhalers, and over-the-counter medications which he thinks are over prescribed.

The Salt Room in Orlando operates under many of the same principles as the Salt Cave in Ireland, except in addition to the airborne salt we go one step further by filling the environment with salt — which in addition to its clinical benefits also provides a relaxing, soothing peaceful environment.

Visit the Salt Cave Climatherapy Clinic web site

Read the recent December 15 article in the Irish Times

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Saturday, December 12th, 2009

How The Salt Room Can Help Your Bronchitis

The Salt Room in Orlando, Florida has been designed to help bronchitis sufferers relieve their symptoms and feel better in a safe, peaceful environment that feels more like a spa than a high tech treatment facility.

Every year, more than 10 million people in the U.S. suffer from bronchitis. It takes its toll on both adults and children alike.  Prescription drugs can bring temporary relief but they can’t prevent the disease from striking you again. Salt therapy as practiced at The Salt Room in Orlando is a drug free treatment that not only brings relief but prevents reoccurrence over time.

If you are suffering from acute or chronic bronchitis, salt therapy at The Salt Room will help you overcome the disease by clearing your lungs from accumulated mucus making it easier to breath. Salt therapy will also improve the functioning of your lungs. As your respiratory tract widens and clears, your coughing too subsides. If you are suffering from cold as well, salt therapy will open up your nasal airways and reduce sneezing. Salt therapy will bring relief by reducing the inflammation of your lungs and kill bacteria. Large amounts of mobilized mucus that had been blocking the bronchioles will be expelled. Experiencing salt therapy at The Salt Room in Orlando will also decrease your dependence on prescription drugs and will help your bronchitis.

Research Has Found Salt Therapy To Be an Effective Treatment for Bronchitis

Clinical studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine (2006) observe: “Inhalation of hypertonic saline produces a sustained acceleration of mucus clearance and improved lung function. Salt therapy treatment may protect the lung from insults that reduces mucus clearance and reduces lung disease”.

According to Elena C who received salt therapy treatment in a London clinic “”Having chronic bronchitis I experienced constant coughing and chest pain each morning. Getting a cold/flu turned bronchitis into a horrible condition. After 15 sessions in the Salt Cave I was coughing less, I felt clearer and my recent cold did not turn into the notorious sickness.”

The Salt Room Has High Tech Treatment Rooms Which Help Your Bronchitis

Salt therapy at The Salt Room in Orlando recreates the microclimate found in salt caves and mines in a controlled environment. The atmosphere in The Salt Room’s “halochamber”  is similar to what you are likely to find sophisticated spa. Each treatment room contains around 50 tons of natural rock salt which contains 98% sodium chloride. The halochamber is equipped with special equipment which provides a flow of clean dry air saturated with dry sodium chloride aerosol at a mass concentration varying from 1-16 mg/m3 with a particle size of 1-5 um.

A sophisticated computer embedded within the halogenerator monitors the temperature, relative humidity and mass concentration of aerosol. The size and speed of the dry sodium chloride aerosol is also carefully regulated. A stable hypoallergenic, hypobacterial environment is maintained in the therapeutic room. Compared to prescription drugs, halotherapy has very few side effects.  The only side effects reported are a slight throat tickle and skin irritation. Sometimes red patches show on your skin which disappear as treatment progresses.

Bronchitis Symptoms The Salt Room Can Help You Treat

Bronchitis is an acute inflammation of the air passages within the lungs. The mucus membrane within the bronchi becomes inflamed usually as a result of infection. There are two types of bronchitis: acute and chronic. Symptoms of acute bronchitis are a persistent cough usually accompanied by mucus which is ejected while coughing. The patient may also experience tightness in the chest and difficulty in breathing. Small children may wheeze and display symptoms similar to asthma. Acute bronchitis is caused by virus and often occurs if the patient is suffering from common cold or influenza. In chronic bronchitis, the cough lasts for as long as three months .It usually occurs when your respiratory tract has already suffered an injury usually due to smoking or air  pollution. If you are suffering from bronchitis, contact The Salt Room and we will help you feel better.

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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

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Welcome to The Salt Room — Orlando’s most advanced salt therapy respiratory treatment center. Now for the first time you can control the symptoms, inflammation and discomfort of a variety of respiratory ailments in a sophisticated spa-like environment.

Relax in our computer-controlled, state-of-the-art treatment rooms while pure salt crystals flow through your lungs and sinuses — providing natural relief from your allergy attacks and other respiratory ailments to help you breathe better. Salt therapy at The Salt Room can help you feel good whether you come on your own or on your doctor’s advice as the compliment to a prescribed treatment regimen. It’s clean…it’s absolutely safe…and you’ll feel great!

Is Treatment at The Salt Room Right for You?

The Salt Room was specifically designed for people suffering from respiratory and skin issues ranging from asthma to allergies to eczema. Consider the following reasons you may want to give The Salt Room a try:

Photo of a woman who has recently found relief at the Salt Room in Orlando from a respiratory ailment which was impacting her breathing.

You’ll feel better after just an hour.

If you’ve ever breathed easier after spending a few days at the beach, you know first hand the relief salt air can provide. The difference is our salt air is highly-controlled and concentrated, so symptoms frequently improve after only one session.
The Salt Room in Orlando offers the opportunity to breathe easier from a variety of respiratory symptoms.

Three comfortable spa-like treatment chambers.

Each has been meticulously designed to enhance the treatment experience. Learn more about our quiet Relaxation Room, our fun Children/Family room and our one-of-a-kind Yoga Room.
Salt Therapy at the Orlando, Florida Salt Room is safe, secure and uses the most advanced respiratory treatment equipment.

It’s an all-natural compliment to your doctor’s prescribed regimen.

Dry salt aerosol therapy is 100% drug free and can be used safely in combination with your current medications and treatments to provide relief like you’ve never experienced before.
Salt therapy and halotherapy have been proven effective in numerous clinical trials.

Salt therapy has been proven effective in multiple clinical trials.

In clinical tests salt therapy (also known as “halotherapy”) has proven effective at relieving symptoms of a variety of respiratory and skin ailments. Learn more about how salt therapy works including its background and the conditions it treats.
Children's Asthma and Eczema Treatment at Salt Room Orlando

“Inexpensive, safe, and effective additional therapy
for patients with cystic fibrosis.”

A recent paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that long-term salt treatment had a positive impact on lung function and reduced pulmonary exacerbations and did not have any negative side effects.

The Salt Room’s Orlando location is now open and accepting appointments! Sign up here to receive updates, special offers and other notices as the information becomes available.

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