Help for Psoriasis
Help for Psoriasis
Psoriasis (in its various forms) is one of the numerous severe system diseases that are greatly benefited by the climate of the Dead Sea, and also one of the most wide-spread. Up to 2-10% of population suffer from psoriasis in different parts of the world. It is grueling and dramatically worsening the quality of lifestyle.
Psoriasis as well as many other difficult chronic diseases such as cardiac failure, hypertension, myocardial infarction (heart attack), 2-d stage diabetes, chronic kidney failure may indeed make the quality of one’s life quite miserable. Development of depression becomes almost inevitable in this case.
Patients frequently experience strong skin itching that prevents them from performing all basic life functions. Depending on severity and locality of the affected areas psoriasis patients may suffer from significant physical and psychological discomfort. They experience difficulties in social and professional adaptation. In some cases they may require disability. A number of occupations and some sports become unavailable for them.
Rash on the face, ears, and hairy head parts creates a big psychological problem for patients suffering from psoriasis. Many of them develop real sociophobia, anxieties, a fear of causing repulsive reaction in the desired sexual partner. Psoriasis is a form of dermatosis and it is threatening the patient to turn into his/her social isolation, constant depression based on the inability to organize normal private life.
And yet the most disturbing symptom in psoriasis patients subjectively determined as lowering the quality of their lifestyle is found to be skin itching, whereas the second place is occupied by the joint pain in patients with psoriatic arthropathy, which is found in 10-15% of all psoriasis patients.
There are evidences that pathogenesis of both psoriasis and depression is influenced by common immunopathologic and endocrine factors (increased level of some interleukins and cytotoxic activity of neuroglia). Affecting these factors by the climatic conditions of the Dead Sea valley that are fully successfully recreated at I.H.C. Eden – Dead Sea. Ltd Climatotherapy Salons causes a profound and wholesome influence upon the course of psoriasis.
Thus, psoriasis patients frequently experience night insomnia, daytime sleepiness, weakness, apathy, increased anxiety, and depression. Without dismissing the disturbing factor of itching, important here also is the causal component. First of all, the general decrease of melatonin secretion and the dysfunction of its daily distribution in the body, I.e. the absence of its nighttime maximum, or the maximum being poorly pronounced compared to the pathologically high melatonin secretion during the day hours.
In the conditions of the recreated Dead Sea valley climate the unique dispersed infrared radiation combined with other climatic components restore the level of melatonin synthesis by epiphysis, which taking into account antioxidant, immunomodeling, and anti-inflammatory activity of melatonin, explains the health improving influence of the Dead Sea climate upon the patients with psoriasis.
It is commonly known that psoriasis is found in women more often than in men and its course in women is significantly more severe. However, psoriasis may frequently improve during pregnancy up to its complete temporary remission, but with a following relapse after childbirth. It has become known in the recent years that specifically androgens and progesterone give positive results in treating psoriasis in men and women. But it is also known that the Dead Sea climatotherapy producing the effect of increasing the endogen progesterone secretion in women and testosterone in men (which helps in its turn to solve reproductive problems) by the same token also contributes to the relief of psoriasis. The reason for it is the stimulating effect of complex natural factors that are successfully reproduced by the “Midbar” climate recreating unit.
Natural inhalatory bromination in the conditions of the Dead Sea is similar to the provided by bromine medications (e.g. Bromocriptine and others). Bromine compounds decrease the secretion of prolactin and as demonstrated by clinical practice have a positive effect with psoriasis. The increased secretion of prolactin indicates stress, depression or pain syndrome in psoriasis patients. It is characteristic that the bromination decreasing the secretion of prolactin exerts a positive effect in psoriasis patients both suffering from hyperprolactinemia and not.
Positive role of glukocorticoides in suppressing the symptoms of psoriasis is doubtless and it is directly related to their immunosuppressive, anti-inflammatory, and antiproliferative activity. However, the very use of glukocorticoides is risky because of their high toxicity in prolonged taking (metabolic disorders, edemas, hypertension). However, the course of psoriasis becomes more acute and may even turn to a malignant phase as soon as the medication is stopped or even when the dose of glukocorticoides is lowered. When going through a course of procedures at the climate recreating Salon the climatic factors of the Dead Sea exert a stimulating influence on the adrenal glands cortex and consequently the increase of the level of the endogen glukocorticoides substantially relieves the course of psoriasis and often results in extended periods of remission.
As a result it is important to realize that the treatment of psoriasis at the Dead Sea by help of specific factors of the natural environment as well as the influence of factors of the Climatotherapy Salon are based upon a deep foundation, recommended for various forms of psoriasis, bring the patients substantial relief of their sufferings, and give them significant remissions. The action of the Climatotherapy Salon allows gently and extremely efficiently to remove the symptoms of psoriasis and besides it is an excellent means of preventing the disease. A pleasant procedure at the Salon will let you feel the niceness of visiting the Dead Sea shore. Even the first session allows to experience some benefits whereas the course of 10-14 sessions brings a substantial desirable relief.