Quite a lot of people like to take a bath, but very few people know that there is such a procedure as balneotherapy is the treatment with mineral waters natural or artificial. There are mineral waters with different mineral composition: sulphide ferruginous, radon, arsenic, carbonic, iodine-bromine, chloride-sodium and other types of water. Very high popularity in balneotherapy was found in baths prepared with bromine and iodine containing a component.
What is iodine bromine baths
Baths with bromine and iodine are known for a long time, but their recognition was received by doctors relatively recently. Iodine is the most important element of our body, without which our existence in nature is simply impossible. Bromine and iodine are biologically active substances and are found in various tissues and organs. So, bromine is a component of the hypothalamus and pituitary gland, and iodine is the main component of the thyroid gland. Their deficiency adversely affects the condition of these organs, and this in turn leads to serious consequences. The main source that supplies us with iodine is the World Ocean.
Use of iodide-bromine baths
A bath with bromide iodine should be used for the following diseases:
- Dermatoses of an allergic nature, as well as skin diseases such as eczema, scaly lichen, and neurodermatitis.
- Atherosclerotic cardiosclerosis, as well as myocardial, appeared against rheumatism.
- Obesity.
- Diseases of the cardiovascular system, arising against the background of inflammation or atherosclerosis.
- Female infertility, resulting from a violation of the endocrine system.
- Cardiovascular neuroses.
- Diseases of the endocrine system.
- Gynecological diseases, including menopause.
- Cerebral atherosclerosis.
- Various diseases of the digestive tract.
- Thyrotoxicosis.
- Diseases from the respiratory organs, such as chronic lung inflammatory disease.
- Hypotonic and hypertensive disease.
- The defeat of the musculoskeletal system, which arose on the basis of degeneration and inflammation (for example, rheumatoid polyarthritis).
- Diseases of the peripheral and central nervous systems, such as lumbosacral radiculitis of neuritis, sciatica, and the consequences that have arisen after the trauma of these systems.
- The disease of the Rhine.
- Parodont and other dental diseases.
- Diseases of the urinary tract and kidneys.
- Disease of the mammary glands, such as cystic diffuse mastopathy.
Contraindications
The use of baths based on bromine and iodine has contraindications for use:
- Intolerance to iodine.
- Pregnancy.
- Explicitly expressed leukopenia.
- Hives.
- Radiation sickness in all stages.
- Severe form of thyrotoxicosis and diabetes.
- Hemorrhagic dermatitis.
- Obesity of the pituitary form.
How to make iodide-bromine bath
You can prepare a bath with bromide iodine in two ways:
- Using natural mineral water. But at the same time it should contain at least 25 mg / l of bromine and 10 mg / l of iodine. The total mineralization of iodine-bromine water should be about 15 - 35 mg / l.
- The second option is the preparation of a medical bath at home. To do this, you need to collect water in the bathroom and dissolve in it sea salt or salt in the calculation of 2 kg of salt in 200 liters of water. The water temperature should be 37 degrees. Separately, a mixture of bromine and iodine is prepared. For this, a liter of water is poured into a glass jar of dark glass and dissolved there potassium bromide (250 g) and sodium iodine (100 g). Such a solution can be stored in the refrigerator for no more than 7 days. Take 100 ml of the resulting solution and pour into a bath with salt. Now you can lie in the tub for 10-15 minutes. The procedure should be repeated for 12-15 days daily. The components can be bought in the pharmacy in the form of separate components, or a ready-to-use iodine-bromine mixture or salt.
The use of iodide-bromine baths is very useful for our body, but in any case, if you decide to indulge yourself with such therapy, you'd better go to a special sanatorium where it will be conducted correctly, or to visit doctors in advance for a full consultation.