Is halotherapy used in prophylaxis (prevention of disease)?
Halotherapy has the pronounced prophylactic effect when it is used as a method of primary and secondary prophylaxis of bronchopulmonary pathology. It is because the dry highly-dispersed sodium chloride aerosol, being a physiologic osmolar stimulus, has a positive effect on the local protective mechanisms of the airways. After the prophylactic courses of halotherapy acute viral respiratory infections occur rarer, as well as acute bronchopulmonary diseases which are one of the basic risk factors of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Exacerbations of chronic pathology occur rarer. This is due to the improved condition of local immunity, normalization of biocenosis, enhanced resistance of the mucus membrane of the respiratory tract.
