The human digestive system
Heat and cold have long been used in diseases and functional disorders of the oral cavity, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, small and large intestine, liver and gallbladder, bile ducts.
Dry and moist heat is used in diseases of the digestive system: it is used in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract associated with disorders of the central nervous system and its vegetative department, as well as with metabolic disorders.
Heat causes a number of changes in the skin, has reflex and humoral effects not only on individual organs, but also on the entire body, including the nervous system. This is also used for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
When using a sauna( sauna) for medicinal purposes, it should be taken into account that the digestive tract functions functionally as a single unit: a violation of the function of one tract organ affects the activity of the others. The gastrointestinal tract has close connections with other organs and systems of the body, for example, with cardiovascular and urogenital, therefore its.pathology can adversely affect their functioning. In turn, disorders of other organs and systems of the body, primarily the central nervous system, cause disturbances in the digestive system.
Most of the diseases of the digestive system is accompanied by disorders of the functions of individual organs or their organic damage. Most often this is manifested by violations of motility, secretion, absorption and intermediate metabolism. Heat and cold affect the secretory function, motility and circulation of the organs of the gastrointestinal tract.
Changes in the activity of the gastrointestinal tract depend on the thermal effect of the bath and the reactivity of the body. The magnitude, efficiency of heat exposure is associated with the way heat is applied and the duration of its effect, with the humidity of the air, and the form of water therapy. So, for example, with some diseases of the stomach after a bath, various kinds of mineral water or juices are recommended. When hydrotherapy is used in a bath( cooling process), the nature of functional disorders of the digestive system should be taken into account;hyper or hyposelection, increased or decreased motor function of the gastrointestinal tract. After the bath should be observed drinking regime, designed to take into account the functional disorders and the need for fluids.
Indications for visiting the bath with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract: benign diseases without disrupting the basic functions, mainly functional dyspepsia, peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum in remission, states after operations on the stomach and duodenum( in 6 months)motor-evacuation disorders of the intestine of a functional nature, conditions after resection of the small and large intestines( after 6 months) without disrupting functions, habitual constipationdiseases of the stomach, duodenal ulcers, bile ducts, chronic cholecystitis without stones, functional biliary dyspepsia, condition after operations on the gallbladder and biliary tract( after 6 months) without disturbing the liver function.
Contraindications to the use of the bath: acute and subacute diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, chronic hepatitis, chronic inflammation of the peritoneum, cholelithiasis with frequent attacks, diarrhea, colostomy and enterostomy, neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract, melena and vomiting with blood, protocololites.