Scandinavian Life Center presents.....

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Scandinavian Life Center presents.....

• PSORIASIS TREATMENT
• at KANGAL HOT SPRINGS WITH FISH

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Cationic Ingredients
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Kangal Hot springs with Fish

• It is located 14 km north of Kangal, a small town
  in the vicinity of Sivas.
• The altitude of Kangal town is approximately 1660
  meters.

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Kangal Hot springs with Fish

• Psoriasis is the disease which has made the
  springs so popular as a therapeutic aid.

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Kangal Hot springs with Fish

• There are 5 pools with the total capacity of 130
  lt/sec in the spa.
• The mean temperature is 35 C
• The mean oxygen value is 2.9 ppm
• The pH value is 7.8.

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Anionic Ingredients
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Kangal Hot springs with Fish

• Two different types of fish alive in the pools of
  the springs.
• Both of them are members of the Cyprinidae
  family.
• The first type is Cyprinion macrostomus.
• The second type is Garra rufa obtusa .
• Although these fish has an ordinary morphological
  structure, the length of their bodies is shorter
  ( 4-14 cm ) than other member of the same fish
  family which live in the rivers of this area ( 20
  cm ).

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Dr.Fishes
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Theraphy in the Pool

• Despite the high temperature of the water these
  fish live in the pools. Because of the scarcity
  of the natural food sources in the pools, human
  skin is an attractive and easy food source for
  these fish.

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Theraphy in the pool

• The patients allow the fish to attack their
  bodies.
• Garra rufa obtusa can clean the squams of a
  patient in a few hours.
• Continuous cleansing of squams increases the
  affectivity of ultraviolet light.
• The quick cleaning of the squams also creates a
  positive psychological condition.

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Theraphy in the pool

• In order to obtain the best possible success, a
  cure should take 21 days, where eight hours are
  spent in the water .

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Therapeutic factors in Kangal

• The period of 8 hours a day, decapitate of
  squams by fish,
• The effect of selenium,
• The effect of the natural ultraviolet radiation,
• Jacuzzi effect of pools,
• Reverse Koebner phenomenon.

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Median PASI scores of individuals
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Recurrences after spa therapy and medical therapy
according to reports of the patients previously
treated in the spa
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Kangal Hot springs with Fish

• In Kangal springs, spa theraphy is done under
  supervision of Department of Dermatology, Medical
  School of Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey.

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Kangal Hot springs with Fish

• The Thermal contain hotel facilities in 4
  buildings.
• It is present 137 rooms (134 normal, 3 suit). .
• There are 16 special baths.The springs contain 5
  pools one being in half Olympic size. All seasons
  open.