Climatotherapy Explained

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 person with sickle cell disease might move to a lower altitude to reduce the number of sickle crises.^[1]
• Several sites around the world are advertised or studied as possibly of therapeutic benefit to patients with psoriasis, most notably the Dead Sea region.^{[2] [3]}

See also

• Weather pains
• Meteoropathy
• Thalassotherapy

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sickle Cell Disease-What Increases Your Risk .
2. http://www.psoriasis.org/treatment/psoriasis/sun/other_sites.php Climatotherapy sites
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 . 451–7 . 10.1067/S0190-9622(03)00916-2 . 12963909 . 3.