Kildonan
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I have researched this therapy and have failed to find and scientific evidence that it works.
Researching pubmed gives a number of results in Russian but again testimonial evidence and hearsay - no studies.
There are legitimate therapies using a saline solution but no legitimate therapies using a salt cave or powdered salt for aspiration.
I have some experience with patients who could not produce a deep cough and therefore could not produce a sputum sample for diagnosis of their lung condition. We sometimes resorted to using salt solutions in a mist to assist. The patients would breath in the mist, it irritated the lining of the bronchial tree / lungs and caused them to cough.
From the "Questions over salt caves' claim to fight illnesses" article by Julia Medew
Mr Lindsay said he was getting referrals from the Royal Children's Hospital and Monash Medical Centre and was building salt rooms for the St Kilda Football Club.
[Mr Lindsay uses a common logical fallacy...]
''If this therapy didn't do something, these professional athletes wouldn't be doing it,'' he said.
[Mr Lindsay was caught out in a lie !!! - no-one from either centre are referring patients to this bogus therapy]
But spokesmen for both hospitals said they did not refer patients to the ''non-evidence-based'' therapy and Head of Immunology and Allergy at the Royal Melbourne Hospital Professor Jo Douglass said salt rooms could actually trigger asthma in some people. [So not only is there no evidence that it works, a professor of Immunology says that it is dangerous in some circumstances]
She said although the inhalation of salt solutions in a nebuliser helped clear some people's airways, this was done in a medical setting where people's lung function was observed. ''People with active asthma need to be aware of the potential for salt to cause airway narrowing,'' she said.
Please listen to this 12 minute podcast by Brian Dunning of Skeptoid.com who specialises in researching various dubious claims to establish their credibility.
Also please read this article What is Halotherapy? which tries to be overly "fair" to this bogus therapy and yet is unable to demonstrate any valid studies showing how it works or even if it works.
Salt Room therapy is a scam - the Saints boys would be better off spending their money on valid evidence based therapies rather than throwing it away on this junk.
Researching pubmed gives a number of results in Russian but again testimonial evidence and hearsay - no studies.
There are legitimate therapies using a saline solution but no legitimate therapies using a salt cave or powdered salt for aspiration.
I have some experience with patients who could not produce a deep cough and therefore could not produce a sputum sample for diagnosis of their lung condition. We sometimes resorted to using salt solutions in a mist to assist. The patients would breath in the mist, it irritated the lining of the bronchial tree / lungs and caused them to cough.
From the "Questions over salt caves' claim to fight illnesses" article by Julia Medew
Mr Lindsay said he was getting referrals from the Royal Children's Hospital and Monash Medical Centre and was building salt rooms for the St Kilda Football Club.
[Mr Lindsay uses a common logical fallacy...]
''If this therapy didn't do something, these professional athletes wouldn't be doing it,'' he said.
[Mr Lindsay was caught out in a lie !!! - no-one from either centre are referring patients to this bogus therapy]
But spokesmen for both hospitals said they did not refer patients to the ''non-evidence-based'' therapy and Head of Immunology and Allergy at the Royal Melbourne Hospital Professor Jo Douglass said salt rooms could actually trigger asthma in some people. [So not only is there no evidence that it works, a professor of Immunology says that it is dangerous in some circumstances]
She said although the inhalation of salt solutions in a nebuliser helped clear some people's airways, this was done in a medical setting where people's lung function was observed. ''People with active asthma need to be aware of the potential for salt to cause airway narrowing,'' she said.
Please listen to this 12 minute podcast by Brian Dunning of Skeptoid.com who specialises in researching various dubious claims to establish their credibility.
Also please read this article What is Halotherapy? which tries to be overly "fair" to this bogus therapy and yet is unable to demonstrate any valid studies showing how it works or even if it works.
Salt Room therapy is a scam - the Saints boys would be better off spending their money on valid evidence based therapies rather than throwing it away on this junk.
- before you ban me, Kildonon, think of the various generally accepted scientific theories generally now considered superseded and, in some case, simply laughable), I guess it is up to patients suffering from such (often quite annoying to the extent of life determining) impediments to decide if they believe it will help them.
