Beyond the healing action, therefore, the thermal cycles available – selected above all on the basis of type of pathology presented – act in advance, i.e. constituting effective preventive methods with the increase of our body’s defenses. Especially in times of Covid.
In the long list that includes the list of pathologies (ENT, respiratory and osteoarticular) that can be cured thanks to thermal practices, the aspect linked to the prevention that the thermal treatments guarantee goes into the background. We talked about it with Professor Antonio Fraioli, UOC Director of Internal Medicine and Thermal Therapy Sapienza University of Rome – Company Umberto I Polyclinic, scientific manager of the structure Thermal baths of Cotilia.
Thermal treatments: how they strengthen the immune system
“There are some studies on inhalation treatments, in the context of nasal immunoglobulins. In particular – explains Professor Strawberries – have been taken into account patients with chronic inflammation».
The thermal waters, in fact, generate various beneficial effects: «which ones restoration of adequate local circulation, reduction of exudative and secretory processes. In these studies, in particular, we went to see, at the beginning and at the end of each spa treatment, how they behaved immunoglobulin secretory (IGA S.) Substances that play a fundamental role in the defense of the organism, especially during seasonal epidemics. Which respiratory and flu viruses “.
Studies have made it possible to ascertain that «these IGA S, that is Surface secretory immunoglobulins, increased following the treatments carried out. Consequently the local immune defenses were strengthened after specific thermal treatments. Hence the concept of using these therapies as a preventive activity: both for curb the worsening of chronic diseases, both to avert the possibility of their occurrence relapse symptoms in the patient “.
The increase in immunoglobulins it is a fundamental factor. The limit, however, is the fact that «it would be necessary to deepen these studies, in particular, the aspect linked to duration of the benefit“. Information and data that would make it easy understand what are the correct intervals between one thermal cycle and another.
Thermal treatments and immune defenses: prevention at the time of Covid
Today, just think of the pandemic in progress, to understand the shield that thermal treatments can offer with our immune system. «Increasing the immune defenses, at this precise moment, also allows us to prevent viral colonization on the mucosal epithelium. So the spa treatments allow you to prevent and limit them upper respiratory tract infections».
You can start with a 12 day cycle, the standard time expected according to what passes the same national health system. Whether it is thermal water, mud, or another type of specific treatment, the important thing is to «concentrate on thermal stage of the disease. This identify the time when the treatment is not contraindicated, therefore it does not give side effects. This means that any type of treatment must be far from acute episodes of the pathology from which one suffers ».
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