P-3-11-02
TREATMENT OF REFRACTORY CASES OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS BY ACIDIC HOT-SPRING BATHING
Kazuo Kubota, Hitoshi Kurabayashi, Izumi Machida and Jun'ichi Tamura
Department of Medicine, Kusatsu Branch Hospital, Gunma University Hospital, Gunma, Japan
Purpose: Refractory cases of atopic dermatitis have increased in teenagers and young adults. The purpose of this study is to control the skin symptoms and pruritus of such patients in daily life.
Methods: Seventy patients (43 males and 27 females, median 23 years) took repeatedly a 10-minute 42℃ acidic hot-spring bath 2 times daily.
Results: The skin symptoms of 53 out of 70 cases (76%) were improved and pruritus was improved in 34 out of the 53 cases (64%). In 30 out of 42 cases examined whose skin symptoms were improved, many "Staphylococci aureus" detected on the skin surface disappeared or decreased through balneotherapy. In contrast, many "Staphylococci aureus" remained in 8 out of 10 cases examined whose skin symptoms were not improved.
Conclusion: The balneotherapy using acidic hot-spring water may be useful for controlling the skin symptoms and pruritus of acute flares of refractory cases of atopic dermatitis.
P-3-11-03
SULPHUROUS MINERAL WATER FROM CALIMANESTI - ROMANIA - AND THEIR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF BACK PAIN
D.DANCIU, U.M.F. Bucuresti - Ciinica B.F.T.R.M. Calimanesti, Romania
Rodica Ilie C.O.T.S. GOVORA, Romania, Mariana Trana Clinica Calimanesti, Romania, Eugenia Dumitrescu Clinica Calimanesti, Romania
To estimate the importance of mineral water therapy in pathology, one must show in the beginning what this means, that is to explain the action of this particular "medicine", the mineral water.
The favourable effects of the thermal mineral sulphurous water hydro - therapy is nowadays acknowledged worldwide. They are based on the combinedaction of three factors: the thermal factor, the mechanical factor and the chemical factor.
The sulphurous mineral water bath may be recommended for:
* locomotory diseases
* degenerative rheumatism
* chronic inflammatory rheumatism
* abarticular rheumatism
* post-traumatic seqels
* disease of peripheral nerves: neuritis, polineuritis, psoriasic rheumatism
* allergies
* gout
