Serious danger to human healthrepresents a lower content of carbon dioxide in our body. Its lack can ultimately lead to such serious diseases as hypertension, ischemia, obesity, constipation, diabetes mellitus, stomach ulcer, bronchial asthma. At present, dry carbon dioxide baths are increasingly being used to eliminate this phenomenon. They are able to eliminate such a deficit, accompanied by such manifestations as spasms.
This kind of bath is a method of treatment, inthe course of which on the patient's body (except the head), which is in a bag specifically designed for this, is exposed to artificially prepared carbon dioxide for medical purposes. This method of treatment has a complex mechanism of action on the body. So, carbon dioxide, penetrating through the skin, increases the content of water-active substances in the body, which exert a capillary-expanding action. This process helps improve blood flow, increase the minute and stroke volume of the heart. Dry carbonic baths have a beneficial effect on blood pressure. Thanks to these procedures, the patient's breathing becomes more rare and deeper. After the use of such baths, gas exchange is significantly activated, the process of oxygen utilization is improved, metabolism is accelerated, immunity is increased, the functioning of the cardiovascular and nervous system is improved.
Dry carbon dioxide bath, unlike water baths,has a softer effect, since it excludes strong hydrodynamic effects of water. In dry baths, there is no hydrostatic and thermal stress on the patient's body. This kind of procedure is shown even in the post-infarction period, after the operations of aortocoronary shunting.
These baths are taken 2-3 times a week. The duration of the procedure can vary from 30 to 45 minutes. Traditionally, a treatment course consisting of ten baths is prescribed. For prevention and with the aim of detoxifying the body, it is enough to pass a treatment course consisting of five baths.
The dry carbon dioxide bath has the following readings:
- Various diseases of the cardiovascular system (hypertension, myocardial dystrophy, vegetative-vascular insufficiency, hypotonic disease);
- Nervous diseases;
- disruption of the endocrine system;
- impotence;
- Diseases of respiratory organs;
- gynecological diseases;
- diseases of the genitourinary system;
- skin diseases.
Dry carbonic baths, contra-indications for which are also numerous, as well as indications for their use, can be taken at the discretion of the attending physician. Contraindications for such baths include:
- hypertensive crises;
- exacerbations of acute inflammatory processes;
- circulatory insufficiency 1 and 2 degrees;
an aneurysm of blood vessels and heart;
- heart rhythm disturbances;
- Malignant formation;
- Pregnancy;
- thromboembolic complications;
renal and hepatic impairment;
- recurrent infarction;
- impaired cerebral circulation.
Dry carbonic baths are increasingly taken inspecial baths with a dosing gas supply, a carbon dioxide humidifier, heating and maintaining the required temperature. At the beginning of the procedure, the bath is covered with a special neck sealant. The specialist exposes the required temperature on the control panel and includes heating. When the set temperature is reached, the heating is switched off automatically. A patient without clothes is located in a comfortable position in the bath. Cervical incision prevents carbon dioxide from entering the area of the patient's head. After setting the required time on the control panel, the bath begins to receive carbon dioxide. It usually lasts 3 minutes. At the end of the procedure, an exhaust fan is activated, which removes the carbon dioxide mixture from the bath.
