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Answer: Halotherapy is not recommended for persons with the following:

• Any Kind of Infectious Disease
  
• Infections, Accompanied by Fever
  
• Cardiac Insufficiency
  
• Chronic Kidney Diseases
  
• Any Form and Stages of Tuberculosis
  
• Cardiac and Coronary Diseases
  
• Hyperthyroidism
  

In case of steroid dependency or dry state of bronchiectasis, halotherapy may be attempted but with a lower efficiency. You must consult your healthcare professional before scheduling your salt therapy.

Answer: There is more than one reason to keep humidity around 55-60%. First, we live in a high humidity climate. For asthma and allergy sufferers, especially humid summers cause breathing problems. Studies have shown that the air is depleted of negative ions in high humidity.

Keeping the humidity between 55-60% in Himalayan salt cave or rooms ensures the best environment for negatively charged dry salt particles. It is also more beneficial for your respiratory comfort.

Dry salt particles also allow optimal room temperature and humidity parameters that are most beneficial for human bodies.

Maintaining optimal conditions of room environment results in avoiding the development of bronchi spasms. This is a frequent reaction observed in people suffering from asthma when using humid salt aerosol. In addition, the amount of salt inhaled with dry salt aerosol is less but much more therapeutic than the amount inhaled with humid salt aerosol.

Answer: Yes. However, there is only one method that can recreate the authentic microclimate of natural salt mines—halotherapy. When the air in natural salt mines was studied, scientists found a concentration of 15-23mg/m3 of dry salt in the air in all mines. There was also an abundance of negative ions present.

Dry salt that is micron-sized can only be generated by a halogenerator (a salt mill). In the process of being grouped up into 1-5 microns, the salt becomes negatively ionized. When salt therapy without a halogenerator is offered, such as with water features, therapeutic dry salt cannot be found in the air.

Answer: Some patients feel a tickling in the throat. Some people also experience an increase in coughing after several days of treatment, mostly productive in mucous discharge, due to the halotherapy-induced drainage of accumulated mucus.

Rare side effects are light eye irritation due to conjunctivitis. If your eyes are sensitive, it is suggested to keep your eyes closed during halotherapy. You may also use an eye pillow.

Answer: Yes, if you are in a private session. If there are others in the session please be respectful and leave your reading materials outside of the salt room. However, you will have a greater experience of relaxation if you just rest. We ask that you turn off and leave all electronics in a locker or in the waiting area. (the salt is not good for your electronic devices) Please Do Not leave your cell phones on vibrate.

Answer: Many people feel health benefits after just one treatment session. However, lasting results often occur after a series of 10-20 treatments with at least 3-5 sessions per week 1-2 times a year.

For relaxation purposes and to strengthen the immune system, 1-2 sessions a week throughout the year is recommended. Sessions may be taken as many times as desired.