Sun Tanning
Heliotherapy is exposure to the sun for therapeutic and prophylactic purposes to treat different pathologies and as a method to relax and anti-stress.
The heliotherapy is indicated for the following cases:
- It is useful as a recommendation against the convalescence of diseases.
- It is recommended for the management of patients with rheumatic processes, in which negative temperatures and high relative humidity negatively affect.
- It is useful in the treatment of metabolic disorders (rickets, obesity and gout).
- It is used in the integral management of psoriasis, mainly in its erythematous scaly evolutionary forms.
- The UV radiations that make up sunlight have a great value to raise the circulation, immunity and resistance of the skin. That is why they are useful in the healing of cutaneous wounds.
- If applied in small doses, they have a great effect to elevate the vitality of bedridden or immobilized patients.
- It is indicated in the treatment of osteoporosis, as well as in osteoarticular, ganglionar, peritoneal and cutaneous tuberculosis.
Sun exposure has been recommended in the treatment of certain depressive processes, in the presence of sleep disorders and to reduce symptoms in the premenstrual syndrome that occurs in some women.
Heliotherapys contraindications
There are cases in which sunbathing is not indicated:
- Lack of vitamin B12 (pernicious anemia).
- Nephritis (inflammation of the kidney).
- Serofibrinous pleurisy.
- Addison's disease.
- Solar allergy (actinic).
- Severe heart disease.
- Photosensitivity.
- Hyperthyroidism.
- Insomnia.