Aerotherapy - (aeris - air; therapia - medical care, treatment) - a method of treatment and prevention with the use of fresh air, a long stay in the open air, taking air baths [1] .
Content
The essence of the method
The main effect of aerotherapy is as follows: the open air cools the skin receptors (if it is cool outside), the nerve endings of the mucous membrane, leading to an increase in the sensitivity threshold, train the body's thermoregulation and thereby contribute to its hardening.
The advantages of this method of treatment are such positive effects as tempering, and vasoactive.
Indications
Before the invention of antibiotics , with the help of aerotherapy, doctors tried to treat tuberculosis [2] , there were many deaths [3] . After the start of the massive use of antimicrobial therapy [4] , aerotherapy was receded into the background, as a less effective treatment.
Contraindications
Contraindications - acute respiratory infections, pulmonary heart disease 3 degrees, exacerbation of chronic diseases.
Notes
- ↑ Aerotherapy // Encyclopedic dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 tons (82 tons and 4 add.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ sa knopf. Aerotherapy and hydrotherapy for the treatment and prevention of pulmonary tuberculosis = Pulmonary Tuberculosis. - New York: American clinical and climatological assosiation, 1897. - P. 115-129. - PMID 21409153 .
- ↑ Guthrie Rankin. Treatment of tuberculosis in the open air (English) = The open-air treatment of tuberculosis // Br Med J. - Greenwich, 1902. - 18 January. - P. 152-153 . - PMID 20760000 . Archived on April 17, 2019.
- ↑ Tuberculosis . World Health Organization . - News bulletin. Archived March 24, 2019.
Links
- Helio and aerotherapy: physiological effects, indications and contraindications. Material to prepare students for the exam. Author unknown StudFiles.net
- Sauer J. Excerpt from the book "Aerotherapy against Tuberculosis" (the book was written approximately at the end of the 19th - early 20th century) Aerotherapy. Per. from English N.D. Firsovoy (2018)