The surge of COVID19, Influenza and RSV in young kids continues while medications are running short. Thus, parents are now seen running to a nontraditional form of treatment that is becoming popular.
With RSV continually hitting young kids and with its lack of vaccine, parents at La Crosse, Wisconsin decided to try the nontraditional treatment called Salt Therapy or Halotherapy. This is a holistic approach that imitates the "microclimate" of a salt cave.
Parents specifically go to Salt Fix Vitality Center in La Crosse where their kids are led to a salt cave. While meditative music plays in the background, the halo generator does its work by crushing salt into micro-sized particles and blows them into the cave for the entire 45 minutes of the session.
"When micro-particles of dry salt are inhaled into the respiratory system, it does its job by absorbing and removing allergens, toxins and foreign substances in your lungs and throughout your respiratory tract. Salt also reduces any inflammation and opens airway passages making it easier to breathe," Salt Fix Vitality Center explained.
Parents' testimonies
Owner Carrie Bossinger recommends it and is confident with its effectiveness to fight many respiratory illnesses that are currently going around. She further explained that salt is a natural "anti-bacterial, anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory and anti-viral," which makes it so powerful.
Holly Lambrecht, one of the parents who tried the therapy, cannot help but agree.
Lambrecht told WXOW that her three-year-old daughter had RSV that turned into pneumonia. She had pneumonia twice last year, and was hospitalized for the second one. The mother recalled how it was so scary for them because they were in the hospital for six days and her daughter was coughing continuously with an oxygen level that dropped to the 70s.
She decided for her daughter to take the salt therapy. Within only 24 hours of using the salt cave, her daughter's coughing stopped, and her RSV and pneumonia were completely gone.
Kalene Ruehlow experienced the same with her two kids. A couple of salt therapy sessions after, her daughter Regina's runny rose was gone and her five-month old daughter Gwen lost her chest congestion.
The mother narrated how Gwen would wake up in the night because she was having these "horrible chest congestion and coughing." After doing the salt cave, she is already "dried up" and cleared up.
Healing power of salt is not new
Though this nontraditional treatment is just becoming popular now to parents, the American Lung Association stated that salt therapy has been around for hundreds of years.
In fact, it has been treating patients since World War 2. A doctor was reported to notice improvements in his patients after they hid inside salt caves to avoid the heavy bombings.
Experts, however, encourages that it would still be better for parents to consult their children's doctors first before trying the therapy.
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