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Climatotherapy
MeSHD013790
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Climatotherapy refers to temporary or permanent relocation of a patient to a region with a climate more favourable to recovery from or management of a condition. Examples include:

  • The partial pressure of oxygen is lower at high altitude, so a person with sickle cell disease might move to a lower altitude to reduce the number of sickle crises.
  • Several sites around the world are advertised or studied as possibly of therapeutic benefit to patients with psoriasis, most notably the Dead Sea region.

See also

References

  1. "Sickle Cell Disease-What Increases Your Risk".
  2. Climatotherapy sites Archived 2005-06-12 at archive.today National Psoriasis Foundation
  3. Hodak, Emmilia; Alice B. Gottlieb; Tsvi Segal; Yael Politi; Lea Maron; Jaqueline Sulkes; Michael David (2003). "Climatotherapy at the Dead Sea is a remittive therapy for psoriasis: combined effects on epidermal and immunologic activation". Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 49 (3): 451โ€“7. doi:10.1067/S0190-9622(03)00916-2. PMID 12963909.


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