Climtotherapy in Menaville Safaga
Safaga is located 60 km south of Hurgada on the Red Sea coast. It is so beautiful, so relaxing and also very healthy. The city’s air is pure, dry and warm.
Safaga's potential health benefits
- have recently been the focus of media spotlight when a group of scientists from the National Research Centre (NRC) found that it helps in the treatment of psoriasis (a chronic skin disease whose reason remains unknown) and rheumatoid arthritis (a chronic progressive form of arthritis
- According to the NRC research team; there are several natural factors in Safaga which make it so appropriate for therapy. The high mountains act as a natural barrier against wind and sand storms. causing inflammation in the joints).
According to the NRC research team
; there are several natural factors in Safaga which make it so appropriate for therapy. The high mountains act as a natural barrier against wind and sand storms. The air is thus free of any suspended grime that could divert and absorb ultraviolet rays’ essential in treating psoriasis. The curve of the bay accounts for the calm sea, which reflects UV rays further.
Due to the abundance of coral reefs, the water is 35 % saltier than it is in other seas the matter that helps in psoriasis treatment. More salt, as evidenced in the Dead Sea, also means less gravity — thought to improve blood circulation. The balance in saline concentration inside and outside the body also affects the therapy positively according to the NRC.
Sand in the area has also been found to contain radioactive elements and minerals effective in rheumatoid therapy. Analysis also showed that the soil contain black sandwich is useful in curing acute and chronic arthritis, rheumatism and skin inflammation.
Those suffering from rheumatoid ailments could bury their bodies in the black sand — with the exception of the head, stomach and chest — twice a day after sunrise and before sunset. Treatment course lasts about a month.
Psoriasis patients, on the other hand, bathe in the sea and lie in the sun, also twice a day. The duration of exposure to the sun is prescribed by the therapist and a patient should see rapid improvement in about a month, depending on whether the case is slight or acute as acute.
According to Dr Hani El-Nazer, professor of dermatology at the NRC and the supervisor of Safaga’s medical programme, the NRC study conducted at the resort showed enormous clinical improvement in 85 % of psoriasis cases. Over 65 % of the patients did not have a recurrence of the disease.
“Psoriasis medications, however, have harmful side effects,” El-Nazer said. “There is also a high incidence of recurrence. In Safaga, on the other hand, the recurrence rate is mild.”
According to El-Nazer, the NRC started studying climatic therapy in Safaga when a tourist village there informed them that a group of German tourists, several of whom suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and skin ailments, said their symptoms had improved markedly during their short stay in Safaga.
The NRC set up a team to conduct a survey of the climatic effects of Safaga on skin and rheumatoid diseases.
The study showed that the percentage of rheumatism patients living in Safaga is only 0.014 %, compared to the international average of 1.5 to 2 %. Similarly, psoriasis patients represent only 0.008 % of Safaga’s population compared to the average of one to three per cent for any given population.
Two sample groups of rheumatism and psoriasis patients were sent to Safaga to spend four weeks under medical supervision. A marked clinical improvement had occurred in 85 % of psoriasis patients, while 70 to 75 % of rheumatoid patients responded positively to the treatment and their pains have been consequently alleviated. Follow-up studies indicated that 40 to 45 % of rheumatoid patients remained in good condition until six months after climatotherapy.
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