DUZDAG Health Resort

Duzdag Physiotherapy Center

Increase of the allergic patients in the world begun seriously worrying doctors from the middle of the 20th century. Researchers have observed undergoing a cure in salt-mines of such illnesses after long searches. First time in 1871 this style of treatment (under the cave conditions) had been applied to the sufferers of the rheumatic poly arthritis in the pendent rocks and results of that treatment were successful. 

There are only a few caves of salt having microclimate ions of sodium (Na) and chlorine prevalence in the world and a very good example of such caves is the cave Nakhchivan Duzdag Physiotherapy Hospital, situated at Nakhchivan Salt Mine Base on the height of 1173 meters from the sea level, started to function on December 29, 1979 as a hospital with capacity of 50 beds.

In 1980 the capacity of hospital was reached to 100 beds. The underground department of the hospital is situated in 14 km distance from Nakhchivan. The hospital consists of two departments. 

1.The ground surface department is located in Nakhchivan Republic.

2.The underground department is located within salt mine in mountain workshop 300 meters from the entrance in

​Nakhchivan Physiotherapy Hospital has the following parameters of influence and treatment:

The ground surface climate:

1.The highness of area from the sea level-950 meters
2.Annual average temperature 12-24 C
3.In January 5-10C, in June 35-40C
4.Relative humidity 40-45%
5.Annual amount of rainfall 200-300 mm
6.Atmospheric pressure 1020 mm.c.st
7.Quantity of sunny days -260-280

 The underground department climate:

1.The highness from the sea level-1173 meters
2.Temperature 19-20 C
3.Atmospheric pressure 682 mm.c.st
4.Relative humidity 23-35%
5.Weather speed 0-0,1 m/s
6.High dispersed NaCl ions
7.While not ill  17. 5 ml/m3
8.While ill  12. 5 ml/m3
9.Oxygen  20%
10.Noise -15-20 DB
11.The thickness of salts mine 8, 2; the ingredients of Salt stone: NaCl-98, 4%; CaCl-0, 04%;    

MgCl-0, 06%;  

While the patients are in the mine pit the temperature may increase 0.05 C, the relative humidity may increase 5-10%. 

In Nakhchivan Physiotherapy Hospital the Spleoteraphy is conducted in conformity with the methodical recommendations of the hospital of Uzhgorod city in Ukraine. The patients, during 2-3 days get adapted to hospital zone. After it, starting from 18:00 up to 8:00 adults 20-24 séances and the childrens 14-18 séances place themselves in the underground department. During this period, depending on the side effects of the diseases, health conditions may change.

After the treatment finished it is observed 65-70% of recovery among the adults and 65-70% recovery among the children.

Together with going to salt mine, if needed the patients can get some medications, physic procedures, therapeutic physical training, thorax massage and etc. The medications are recommended as less as possible (if the patient is getting the kotriokostereoids, the doze is gradually decreased). 

Spleoteraphy is carried out when there is not suffocation attack and within the period of remission.

There is compiled the list of indications and after effects of salt mine treatment at Nakhchivan Spleoteraphy Hospital.

Nakhchivan Spleoteraphy Hospitals preference over other Salt mines is connected with the fact that as it is located in horizontal position the patients enter into the underground department already in the adapted from. Ventilation, in hospitals worked strokes – similar to chess, is natural; that means the weather flow speed is about 0-0,1m/s. The salt mine is stable with natural and high disperse Na+ Cl+ ions. Microbes are less in the salt mine. Thee hospital is situated in highly ecological clean zone. For this reason there are entirely not any poisonous gases (methane gas).

There are the following indications and after effects for the salt mine treatment:

Indication:

1.Pre asthma
2.Bronchial asthmas 1st level, inflectional-allergic and atopical form easy and easy and middle range of bad form;
3.Bronchial asthmas 1st level, breath deficiency 1st and 2nd levels, heart cases 1st level;
4.Bronchial asthmas 1st level, with collateral chronicle non obstructive bronchitis and chronicle pneumonia of 1st and 2nd levels (remission stage);
5.Remission stage with chronicle bronchitis asthmas;
6.Allergic rhino sinusoid pathologies;
7.Pollinates disease;

Absolute side effects: 

1.Bronchial asthmas 2nd level;
2.Bronchial asthmas 1st level with heavy running, diffused pneumonic sclerosis, breath deficiency 3rd level, heart case 3rd level;
3.Disease of Bronchi ataxia;
4.Lung abscesses gangrenes;
5.Lung tuberculosis all forms and stages;
6.Deficiency of blood circulation of 3rd level;
7.Heart cases sub compensations and de compensation phase;
8.Hypertonic disease of 3rd stage;
9.The disease of gastro duodenal erosions;
10.Tireo toxicosis;
11.The disease of kidney stone;
12.Anemia;
13.Diabetes of 2nd and 3rd levels (dependant on insulin).

Relatively after-effects are the followings:

1.Absence of upper and lower extremities;
2.Enurez;
3.Chronicle poly arthritis disease;
4.The anatomic changes of the nasal cavity (polyps, adenoids);
5.Chronicle hepato cholestisits.

In 2003 there was carried out the reconstruction and refurbishment works in the underground department of the hospital which can meet the modern requirements, the underground department was enlarged and equipped with modern technology.  300 meters of entranceway of the underground department was reconstructed, it was installed a lightening system along the way. The electricity system the underground department was completely renewed. In the underground department the entrance was reconstructed and the new transformer was installed. It was appointed the new shuttle bus to take patients to the underground department and back. It was done a 5 km of capital repairs on the road coming from Sharur-Nakhchivan main way to the underground department. The department was tackled with necessary soft and hard inventories. The underground department was additionally upgraded with 100 more beds.

Spleoterapy treatment effect, ie, improvements in children 4 or observed at the end of 5th day. Seniors slightly different. The disease process, a group of patients after 2 weeks of healing, some at the end of treatment, recorded after 15-30 days in some of them returning to their environment.

In these times crises of suffocation, coughing decreases. Choking attacks in children 4 completely cut off, or 5th day. At the end of the treatment of leukocytes in the blood-eosinophils (white blood cell called granulocytes or asidofil in the cell) with a high amount is reduced and also reduced the amount of sputum eosinophils, erythrocytes (blood in the large number of cell types), a decrease in the rate returns to normal or reduced. 

Time to breathe sometimes returns to normal lungs, the bronchial tract is cleared. Patients will breathe the air more comfortable, normalizes heart rate or tachycardia (increase in the number of heart beats per minute) knows a little seen, with increased systolic and diastolic (blood pressure) is reduced. Electro-loaded T-tooth width of the diagram falls, blood plasma histamine (the chemical in the body tissues), the amount is reduced. Reaches the normal level of potassium lost. Calcium venatriumun increased rate decreases.

In summary, the treatment effect spleoterapinin special micro-climate of the cave, the absence of allergens, as a result of constant baro metric pressure and the positive effect to prevent allergic inflammation, allergic reactions and as a result, break the chain of clinical, biochemical effects in the leads.In the past times this health center was a branch of the Babek (province of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic) State Hospital with 50 beds capacity and later on 100 beds capacity from 1982.

The height of the hospital is 1.173 meters above the sea level, it is 12.2 km far away from Nakhchivan city in the second basic stone department of the salt-mines, cave is developed in the 300 meters long from entrance and 9 halls of 110 meters depth. The distance between the Duzdag mine and the hospital is 2.4 km.