| Below are our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). If you cannot find the answer to your question please do not hesitate to contact us. 2. How does Salt Therapy work? 3. Which symptoms can be treated by Salt Therapy? 4. What results can patients expect? 5. How is health improvement of the patients manifested? 6. Is Salt Therapy recommended for children? 7. What are the advantages of Salt Therapy compared to medicine? 9. What the difference between Salt Pipe and The Salt Cave? 11. What does it mean that your microclimate is controlled? 12. Why children suffering more often from respiratory illnesses? 13. Why do you have salt in the room? 14. Why is relative humidity important in the cave? 15. What can I do with my small children/toddlers during the therapy? 16. Why is it so relaxing inside? 17. I thought salt is not good for us. Why is it good in the lungs? 18. How sterile is the microclimate in The Salt Cave? Salt Therapy is a high dispersion saline aerosol microclimate treatment. It is a therapeutic method based on the principle of natural salt mine’s microclimate (Speleotherapy), which is prolonged exposure to the specific microclimate of caves and salt mines. It’s a patented method where dry salt aerosol plays an important role in the relief of health problems, and is used for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, and other respiratory problems.
Salt Therapy uses patented state of the art technology - a Dry Saline Aerosol Diffuser - to reproduce the atmosphere of the salt caves/salt mines with a monitored therapeutic microclimate. The air coming from the medical device is ionized and saturated with a natural substance - a low concentration of curative highly dispersed aerosol of dry saline (salt). Patients sit in an artificial salt cave, breathe in the dry agent, which is immediately transported to the smallest bronchia and to other parts of the respiratory tract. Once in place it dissolves and attracts the small impurities which are later either coughed up by the patient or which leave the organism during the metabolic processes via the bloodstream. The treatment eliminates the root of all inflammatory respiratory illnesses (of all inflections of the lower or upper respiratory tract, asthma, bronchitis and allergy catarrh) by destroying bacteria and restoring health
chronic bronchitis asthma hay fever ear infection breathlessness, chest tightness pneumonia after acute stage bronchiectatic disease smoker's cough (including secondary smoke) cough with viscous sputum discharging with difficulties dry, paroxysmal cough with distant rates dry rales (mostly with low tone) changing its localization during auscultation frequent acute disorders of respiratory tract pharyngitis multi-chemical sensitivity syndrome sinusitis/sinus inflammation respiratory infections respiratory allergies to industrial and household pollutants rhinitis tonsillitis eczema psoriasis 4. What results can patients expect? Doctors have noted that thousands of patients have been successfully treated by Speleotherapy (treatment in natural salt caves) method in Canada, Russia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Austria and Germany since 1940. After taking treatments, their breathing became easier, symptoms such as sneezing, coughing and shortness of breath were improved, medical drug usage has decreased significantly. Salt Therapy mimics the natural salt environment and patients experience positive results in as soon as 7-30 days. 5. How is health improvement of the patients manifested? As a result of the therapy, the state of the bronchi is restored, breathing becomes easier and the quality of the function of breathing improves. This leads to the normalization of other bodily systems. Thanks to the stronger immune system sick days will decrease and patients will be more resilient. In the case of patients suffering from asthma and croup symptoms the inflammation causing the spasms of the bronchus will stop, and the airing of the bronchial tube will be normalized leading to the end of attacks. 6. Is Salt Therapy recommended for children? Salt Therapy is a 100% drug free treatment with no artificial elements. The treatment is suitable for children at any age (as young as 1 month old). Children respond to the therapy very quickly and effectively. 7. What are the advantages of Salt Therapy compared to medicine? Salt therapy is a risk free treatment method. While modern pharmaceuticals provide effective relief from chronic diseases, there are serious side effects associated with repeated or prolonged use. Continuous drug therapy is associated with the possible development of allergic or toxic reactions, development of antibiotic tolerant species of microorganisms, spreading of dysbiosis and long term immune system destruction. Salt Therapy is 100% natural, safe and drug-free. It provides effective long-term relief from various respiratory illnesses. It can be used as a complementary treatment or as a sole treatment. 9. What the difference between Salt Pipe and The Salt Cave? The heart of The Salt Cave is a medical device, called Dry Saline Diffuser, which continuously generates and monitors the dry salt aerosol microclimate. In the halochamber the concentration; size of the particles; temperature; humidity and the level of negative ionized charging, is constantly measured and controlled during the session. Salt Pipes purchased from the internet could be cheap, but obviously they cannot provide the same quality aerosol, which plays key role in the healing of the respiratory system. Salt particles in the pipe soon become oxidised after a few usage, therefore won't be able to make any healing effect. 10. What advantages does a Salt Cave - Salt Therapy have over the original salt mine cave environment? Unlike the natural cave/salt mine clinic, the artificial Salt Cave with our special nebulizer is a controlled environment where the salt aerosol concentration, temperature and humidity are constant and the size of the salt aerosol is controlled (1-5mkm). The air is hypobacterial, allergen free and saturated with dry sodium chloride aerosol. A session in our Salt Cave takes 60 minutes and patients come back 10-30 times depending on their condition. Meanwhile in a natural salt cave, people spend 2-3 hours a day, during a period of 2-3 months. 11. What does it mean that your microclimate is controlled? Some Salt Caves have a device which blows in salty air before or sometimes during the session. In this cases there is no sensor located in the room, therefore the device cannot adjust the size of the particles or the concentration. Obviously these devices cannot personalize the blown-in air to the size or shape of the room, or simply to the needs of the patients with various respiratory problems. Therefore the healing effect will be much lower of a non-controlled microclimate than a controlled one where information is sent back to the device in every second and it can continuously adjust the parameters in order to provide a stable, efficient aerosol. 12. Why children suffering more often from respiratory illnesses? The natural self defence mechanism of the respiratory system is not fully developed before the age 9. During this period even larger particles of pollution can reach their lungs as the ciliums cannot filter them out. The second reason is that than children are shorter therefore they are breathing in the air lower. The air is always more polluted closer to the ground. (e.g. This is why the buggies are higher these days than 20 years ago) The third reason is that children are breathing the air in much more often than adults do. Therefore they are breathing in more polluted air with not fully developed filtering system than adults. 13. Why do you have salt in the room? The 2 tons of salt on the walls and the floor was applied purely for decoration purposes and to keep the room sterile. The Dry Saline Diffuser device is responsible for the curative microclimate. 14. Why is relative humidity important in the cave? The humidity has to be between 40-70% in the room. If the air is too dry or too humid the efficiency of the therapy will drop as the particles cannot get into the smallest parts of the lungs (alveoli). This is why fountains or other water related appliances cannot be installed in a salt cave. 15. What can I do with my small children/toddlers during the therapy? We have a play corner in the salt room with plenty of toys, rocking horse, books and a spacious playpen for babies. 16. Why is it so relaxing inside? Salt has the natural ability to balance the positive charge by binding the excessive positive ions with its negative ions. Therefore, the neutralizing forces of salt can cancel out positive charged and harmful electromagnetic vibrations in our environment (electro-smog), as well as in our body. Hence, salt therapy has de-stressing, relaxing effects; it is beneficial for calming the nervous system. 17. I thought salt is not good for us. Why is it good in the lungs? Eating too much salt is linked to high blood pressure, which can increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes. However with Salt Therapy you will breathe the dry saline aerosol into the respiratory system, it does not go to your stomach / hearth / kidneys. The concentration is 1-10 mg/m3 is in the Salt Cave and a normal adult's daily recommended salt intake is 6g, from this you can see that the amount of salt going into your respiratory system is really low. Even if you would eat it instead of breathing it that amount would not trigger any issue. In the lungs however it kills the bacteria, reduce the mucus and inflammation. 18. How sterile is the microclimate in The Salt Cave? The microclimate is 3 times cleaner in The Salt Cave than in a sterle surgery room in a hospital therefore it is almost impossibl e to catch any infection or bacteria during the therapy. A stable hypoallergenic, hypobacterial environment is maintained in the therapeutic room. The assessment of the microbial contamination during a session of Halotherapy proves that 1m3 contains from 90 - 200 saprophytic microorganisms (according to WHO standards on air sterility, 1m3 should contain less than 300 microbial bodies). If somehow any bacteria would get into the Cave during and it would not be killed by the 2 tons of salt located in the Cave due to the 15 minutes ventilation after each session it would be blown out from the building.
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Congratulations to our Competition Winners!
The winners of our Belfast Telegraph Competition for 5 treatments each were Ian Brown from Garvagh and Keith Curistan from Newtownabbey! Well done to them both.
Business Award Finalist
Salt Clinic Omeath attended Louth Business Awards on Saturday 15th October 2011 and are proud to announce they were awarded a Certificate as Finalists In the Best High Growth SME Category hosted by Dundalk Chamber of Commerce.
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