Medical technology
Treatment room description
Our clinic treatment room (chamber) has a special design. The walls and the floor of the treatment room (chamber) have a salt covering. The salt covering, which suggests the atmosphere of a salt cave, also has practical functions. It assists in maintaining temperature-humidity and hypo-bacterial conditions owing to its interaction with salt aerosol and also absorbs sound, The white salt walls in combination with comfortable armchairs, soft illumination and fresh pure air create a quiet, peaceful atmosphere where people can relax and get away from their daily worries and cares. All these design factors have a positive effect on the nervous and psycho-emotional spheres.
Layout of the dry saline aerosol inhalation chamber at our clinic
How does the technology work?
The Halocomplex consists of a microclimatic chamber (walls and floor are covered with rock salt) with the addition of a halogenerator. The special salt covering on the walls and floor acts as a buffer for air moisture and helps maintain the environmental aseptic properties. Dry sodium chloride aerosol containing particles of 1-5 um in size is produced in this room by a special nebulizer, the halogenerator; a device which pushes air containing this salt aerosol into the chamber. The halogenerator is situated in an interconnecting room and brings a flow of clean, dry air, saturated with highly dispersed negatively charged particles of sodium chloride into the therapeutic room. The halogenerator has a microprocessor that monitors and maintains the temperature, relative humidity and mass concentration of aerosol in the chamber. In contrast, Speleotherapy (salt aerosol inhalations in salt mines/caves) relies solely on the natural salt environment.
The advantages of Halotherapy
The advantages of Halotherapy are the provision of a specified concentration of dry salt aerosol under controlled conditions of temperature and relative humidity, while regulating the size and speed of the dry sodium aerosol particles. The halocomplex controls and maintains the concentration of highly dispersed aerosol at four pre-set levels (level I to IV), providing a concentration of dry sodium chloride between 1 to 16 mg/m3. These parameters are found in the natural environments of various Speleotherapy medical centers, which are located in natural salt caves and mines throughout Eastern Europe.
This environment has stable humidity (relative air humidity 40-60%) and stable air temperature (18-24°C). These parameters create comfortable conditions for patients and promote a stable aerosol environment. A stable hypoallergenic, hypobacterial environment is maintained in the therapeutic room as well. The assessment of 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). Microflora content returns to its initial level 10-20 minutes after the session is completed.
