Μελέτη της πρόγνωσης και των πλεονεκτημάτων της πηλοθεραπείας στη φαρμακευτική αντιμετώπιση της ψωρίασης συγκριτικά με τις ανεπιθύμητες ενέργειες των φαρμάκων σε σχέση με την πρόγνωση των υποτροπών

• Main Authors: Pitsari, Paraskevi, Πιτσαρή, Παρασκευή
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: Greek
• Published: Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH) 2018
• Subjects: Ψωρίαση; Πηλοθεραπεία; Psoriasis; Mud therapy; Ιατρική και Επιστήμες Υγείας; Βασική Ιατρική; Medical and Health Sciences; Basic Medicine; Blue Lagoon; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/44039; https://doi.org/10.12681/eadd/44039

Balneotherapy emerged as an important treatment modality in the 1800s, initially in Europe and then in the United States. Its popularity declined for almost 50 years, which changed during the last two decades, as dermatologists started to seek new alternative treatment methods for skin diseases. Water therapy is being practiced in many countries which have a variety of mineral springs and muds, such as the Dead Sea in Israel, the Kangal hot spring in Turkey and the Blue Lagoon in Iceland. Climatotherapy, such as that received in the Dead Sea area, refers to a combination of sun exposure, mud therapy and bathing in seawater. Climatotherapy includes balneotherapy and it has gained popularity as alternative treatment with mineral water for psoriasis. The scientific approach to the application of balneotherapy in dermatology has led to the establishment of a Council for Balneology for Dermatology in 1996.Krinides, in Northern Greece, contain minerals of therapeutic water and essential ground. The characteristics of mud and water in Krinides are presented in Table 1. Due to the latitude of Greece, the natural sun is heavy. Therefore, there is no need for artificial UV phototherapy, which is known for its efficacy in the treatment of psoriasis. Few trials have been conducted to assess the efficacy of mud treatment and bathing in mineral water combined with natural UV phototherapy. In this study, we report the retrospective evaluation of treatment results of psoriatic patients, who underwent simultaneously mud therapy, phototherapy and balneotherapy from 2010 to 2014 as well as treatment’s potent complications.Of the 69 patients, only 65 completed the therapeutic protocol. Reasons for the dropout were no reported result and high cost-economic problems. Therefore, 65 patients were included in the statistical analysis.Patients’ age ranged from 6 to 75 with a mean age of 46,6 ± SD…. Of the 65 patients, 33 were males and 32 females. 10,76% of them reported to have a positive family history for psoriasis (at least one ...