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Chemotherapy and Medical Mineral Water
The term “cancer” is used as a general name to refer to a group of more than 100 diseases in which the cells of our body begin to grow and reproduce without control. Unfortunately, cancer is one of the most prevalent diseases of the 21st century.
Half of all men and a third of women will have a diagnosis of cancer in their lifetime.
For most cancer patients, living with this disease is the biggest challenge they have ever faced as it changes their routines and relationships.
Thanks to the advance of science and technology we have remedies to combat this disease. Currently, the treatments used to treat and cure cancer are surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill cancer cells. Its mission is to destroy cancer cells to prevent them from reproducing. Because of their high potential for action, the drugs used in chemotherapy also damage healthy cells in our body, so this treatment has side effects. Some of the most frequent are nausea, fatigue and generalized pain. The skin is one of the organs that suffer most from this treatment, the most common effects being dry skin, eczema, photosensitivity and subsequent hyperpigmentation.
BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF BALNEOTHERAPY
A new line of treatment for the tumor processes bets to include adjuvant treatments to the conventional ones, and this is where the Balneotherapy comes into play. Increasingly, studies confirming that stays in spas for cancer patients improve the quality of life and prognosis of disease, alleviating the sequelae and favoring recovery. Mineral-medicinal waters contribute to the relief of fatigue and nausea, reduce pain, reduce stress, anxiety and depression, and favor healing of wounds. Another of the most important effects for this type of patients is the antioxidant action exerted by these waters on the immune system, which is depressed in these processes.
An example of the many that show the benefits of balneotherapy for this disease is a study conducted in the United States for women with non-metastatic breast cancer on chemotherapy. The level of depression and anxiety of the patients was assessed through validated questionnaires. The results were very revealing, as there was a marked improvement of these parameters at 6, 12 and 24 months.
BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF OUR SPA
If all this was not enough, one of the treatments in our Spa produces a great improvement when it is being treated with chemotherapy. These are our soaking tubs. When immersed in hot water, the pores of the skin dilate and thanks to the mineral rich composition of our waters produces a biological effect known as osmosis. The refined salts and toxins leave our body to the outside through the pores, purifying and cleaning blood and tissues. As the salt leaves outside the nucleus of the cells, these are alkalinized, inducing the death of the tumor cells; Which need an acid medium to reproduce. All the acidic fractions that we eliminate in the baths (CO2, fats, ammonia and uric acid) no longer need to be eliminated by lungs, kidneys and liver. In this way, we prevent possible damages to these organs by an excessive elimination of cytotoxic products used in chemotherapy.
From Zújar Spa we invite you to visit us, try our waters and be participants of its benefits and properties.
Ainhoa Sola Martínez.
Zújar Spa Nurse
Hydrothermal treatment
Our commitment to improve this year, has started with the implementation of the new treatment of PARAMUD
THE PARAMUD Is a thermotherapeutic method consisting of a mixture of paraffin and mud. It is applied in the area of the body to be treated in the form of plaque or plasters, at an initial temperature of approx. 50 ° C, wrapping the area with a sweating sheet and disposable towels to avoid heat loss, once the paramudAt 25 or 30 minutes, is removed from the body.
AREA OF APPLICATION
Therapy for subacute and chronic conditions of rheumatic disease; Inflammatory and degenerative pathologies of the joints and spine, rheumatisms of soft tissues. Secondary post-traumatic conditions in the locomotor system. For the relief of pain in chronic diseases of the intestine and organs of the urinary tract.
CONTRAINDICATIONS:
Acute inflammatory conditions, acute conditions after trauma, haemorrhages, edema, vascular problems of blood vessels of the skin, febrile conditions, areas of the skin with alterations of the sensibility, extensive skin lesions and acute skin diseases, heat urticaria
The main effects that are sought with your application:
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Analgesic effect, is obtained in a few minutes. The intensity of analgesia depends on the degree of temperature, the time of application and the particular conditions of the patient.
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Antispasmodic effect, acts on spasms and muscle contractures.
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Anti-inflammatory effect, can be used in inflammations except in the acute phase.
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Circulating toning effect, intense local thermotherapy can cause an increase in blood circulation.
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Cauterizing effect, the heat applied in a limited area and with an intensity far superior to the cutaneous tolerance, causes the destruction of the tissues by burn, although it must be applied with caution. As in all thermotherapy applications, results are obtained in chronic rheumatic diseases, and it is also useful as a means to reduce localized pain, also in pathologies that lead to muscular contractures such as back pain, back pain and neck pain. Locomotor apparatus: in muscular and articular contusions, arthritis, osteoarthritis, sprains, myalgias, muscular tears, etc. Nervous system: in neuralgias, neuritis, contractures and spasms of central origin. Circulatory device: in vascular diseases such as arteriosclerosis, is a circulatory activator and has capillary permeability regulating effect. Urogenital apparatus: in nephritis cystitis, lithiasis. Digestive system: gastric pains, colic. Respiratory system: bronchiectasis, laryngitis, pleuritis. Metabolic diseases like obesity. On the skin: in inflammatory processes such as abscesses and to improve hydration, favors sweating and elimination of toxins
CORAL DOMENE
ZÚJAR SPA NURSE
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Benefits of Spatherapy on Mental health
In recent years the depression has become a priority in public health due to its high prevalence and consequences that originate on society in terms of mortality, morbidity and economic and social costs. Depression affects significantly to physical, mental and social functions and is associated with an increased risk of premature death. Depending on its severity, can impede the person’s ability to perform basic activities of daily living, causing a big deterioration in its usual operation and their quality of life.
In a recent review of the global situation of the mental health, it has been estimated that depression produces a greater decrease in health compared to other chronic diseases like angina, arthritis, asthma and diabetes. Thus, depression is one of the leading causes of disease burden in Europe and in the world in terms of disability adjusted life years, and the World Health Organization (who) foresees that in 2020 is the second leading cause of disability in the world, after cardiovascular disease.
But the depression affects both patients and the whole of society, since it has an economic impact on the community that goes beyond the direct costs associated with the use of health services. Depression affects the individual’s job performance and implies high costs arising from the loss of productivity and absenteeism from work. In addition, there are other intangible costs, such as, for example, which are derived from the lost opportunities for individuals who suffer from mental illnesses and their families.
It is a disease that unites us and we have to work all in one direction.
In Zujar Spa we can contribute to improve this situation, by the effect that on the nervous system and emotional level our waters.
One of the minerals that water is calcium, this cation has sedative, dimmer type of neuromuscular excitability and antiphlogistic effects, this in turn conveys a State of relaxation, which helps us in depressive States.
Our water emergency temperature is 39 ° to 40 °, with the application of adequate water at this temperature we got effects very benefits for our emotional system by the relaxation that we may get, this increases when we add the hydromassage, for example, in the jacuzzi or whirlpool baths.
Others of our facilities as they are the preassure Jet and Sauna are indicated in depressive States, for its relaxing effects as a result of release of tension. In the case of the higher pressure Jet achieved effects similar to a massage.
Massages have an anti-stress effect, relieve emotional stress, the person experiences a sense of calm and tranquility. Specialist hand contact with our body gives comfort, also regulates and relieves tension psycho-physics.
One of our thermal pools is outside with the area of solarium where you can practice Heliotherapy, it is a therapy that is based on the use of solar rays to treat different conditions. Heliotherapy holds that the sun is fundamental to life, and that cures or sunbathing can help heal some pains as long as they are applied correctly and taking the necessary precautions. Contributes to the production of endorphins: Substances that make us feel “good”, and therefore is antidepressant and induces positivism.
From his knowledge, Mineromedicinal Waters and in this case the Spa of Zújar have demonstrated their therapeutic capacity in mental illnesses such as depression, demonstrating significant improvements and increasing the quality of life of all affected.
Coral Domene
Enfermera Balneario de Zújar
