How Halotherapy works?

In the salt room you’ll be surrounded by brick walls made out of Pink Himalayan Salt, all of which comes from Pakistan. Just having all that salt in the room does a bit to help keep the environment in the room stable, acting as a heat-sync and a moisture-sync, but really what’s doing the work is salt that we’re pumping into the air! On the outside of the salt room we have installed Halogenerator. This machine grinds up the salt into an incredibly fine powder that is then blown into the room through vents in ceiling. Now, the salt that we’re pumping into the air isn’t Pink Himalayan Salt, but pharmaceutical grade sodium chloride, so just pure salt. A ventilation system then helps to pull the salt across the room, so there really is an even dispersion throughout, so it doesn’t matter too much where you sit. For the full 30 minute session you’re breathing in this salt, filtering into all the little nooks and crannies in your sinuses, getting down into the deep dark recesses in your lungs as well as on your skin! It is pretty subtle though, so you won’t see clouds of salt drifting through the room or come out looking like a snowman, but you might taste it on your lips or tongue when you’re breathing in.

So the salt.

The way this salt works is that it pulls moisture to it! That’s just one of the properties of salt, and that’s the mechanism behind everything we’re doing in the salt room.

This has 3 parts. Again, you’re breathing in salt, coating the giant mucus membrane that is your respiratory tract, and getting it on the skin.

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The salt then pulls fluid to it out of the cells, reducing the size of the cells, decreasing inflammation. With this aspect we’re touching on inflammatory issues like asthma, psoriasis, eczema, itises, bronchitis, sinusitis/rhinitis, dermatitis, all sorts of really fun and interesting things. The salt is amazing, but it’s really about what the salt can physically get to and touch, so not necessarily things like joints, skeletal musculature, GI tract. We’re primarily looking at respiratory and skin.

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The salt helps to promote mucosal movement in the respiratory tract. It’s all based on that fluid transfer, the salt pulls fluid from the cells into the respiratory tract which then helps to thin out and break up mucus, allowing your body to more easily and naturally expel it. Breaking up congestion, opening up and cleaning out airways so that you can breathe! Which is kind of important right? This aspect touches on all sorts of respiratory issues from more extreme things like CF and COPD, down the line to bronchitis, and even seasonal allergies. With allergies, you’re breathing in all these pollen’s, most spores, pet dander and many of those tiny particles become trapped in the mucus in your respiratory tract. This process helps to get all the junk up and out of your system so it’s not just sitting in there, irritating things.

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Salt is antimicrobial! Salt acts as a desiccant with many microorganisms, dehydrating and killing them.

 

These three components touch on all sorts of different respiratory issues as well as a few skin conditions, but everyone responds differently. Some people do come out after their first session as salt converts, spreading the good word of salt. More often though, it takes a few sessions before you’ll start to notice some type of change. Speaking very generally, acute issues like little allergy flare-ups or minor infections, most people start to notice a difference in the 1-8 session range, while more long term, chronic issues take longer, in the 3-15 session are. Sinus issues, allergies, and children tend to respond more quickly though. That being said, every person and condition is different, so there is some variability as far as how many sessions and how frequently you’ll want to be coming in, and we do have all sorts of different package options to cater to everyone’s needs.

Today, if you’re having sinus issues, it is a little better to breathe through your nose as much as possible to really get the filtering in there. Also not a bad idea to take deep breaths from time to time. With skin conditions it is better to have the effected area exposed if possible.