The sea and its miraculous effects on the respiratory system.
Engaging with sports and especially water sports have a beneficial effect on chronic respiratory diseases.
After practising medicine for so many years, what I find worrying is that despite all the developments, there is a great increase in morbidity. In the speciality of Otorhinolaryngology, patients with allergic rhinitis, sinusitis, polyps, obstructive apnea, as well as malignancies in the mouth, pharynx and larynx areas have increased.
Beneficial water sports: engaging with sport is the most important activity for our body’s good health. They make bodily forces develop alongside with mental functions and increased euphoria. Especially engaging in water sports can provide us with much more, combining exercise with contact with the aquatic element, exercising the entire body and promoting our mental health through direct contact with nature. Our contact with water also helps to make the most natural nasal lavage and this heals chronic problems of the upper respiratory tract or keeps them on a stable level without complications and intense symptoms.
A better health profile: These sports also have a beneficial effect on chronic respiratory diseases. Saltwater has a high content in beneficial ingredients, it reduces morbidity, while changing the profile of chronic diseases, such as allergies and sinusitis, for children and adults.
The importance of prevention: the “key”, thus, to a good health is prevention. The energy supplies that we have received from our summer vacation let us react more holistically to the increase in morbidity, with radical changes in our daily life.
ANATOLI PATARIDOU | ENT Head & Neck Surgeon | Kids & Adults Scientific Associate of HYGEIA – MITERA Hospital
