フランスの皮膚病湯治場ラ・ロシュ・ポゼ

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  • La Roche Posay (France) and Patients of Skin Diseases.
  • フランス ノ ヒフビョウ トウジバ ラロシュポゼ

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La Roche Posay, a spa, is situated along the Creuse river and it is one of the fortresses of Rome. More than ten thousand skin disease patients from Paris and other cities visit here every year. Among those patients, 38% are women, 32% are men and 30% are children 6 month and older. As for the types of the skin diseases, eczema (inculding atopic dermatitis) accounts for 30% of total patients, psoriasis for 45%, acne for 7%, and rosacea for 4%. Other diseases inculd scar (from burn), bed-sores, ichthyosis, lichen planus, keratodermia palmo-plantaris, special prurigo, and stomato-dermatitis. Physico-chemical character of spring water is as follows: simple spring, 13°C, pH 7, evaporated residue 550mg, T. H. (Titre Hydrotimétrique ou Dureté) 38°, HCO3 370mg, oligo-éléments Se 45μg and Zn 10μg. The bathing treatments involve approximately 30 minutes in water temperature of 28-38°C, and amin colorings can be used for the treatment, in order to prevent infections. By using bottles with one liter or more, plenty of water is drunken as the drinking spring water. As for the hydrotherapy, la douche (la pulvérisation, la douche filiforme, la douche intense), athletic exercises in the water, massages and shiatsu are performed, depending on the type of the skin disease. Special medicine for external use which contains spring water are manufactured at pomade manufacturing plants within the area, and used. Those medicines do not inculde preservatives or perfume, and are not mixed with steroid or non-steroid medicines. As for the playing therapy and psycho-somatic therapy, La Roche Posay has an amusement park for children, an athletic field and a library. There are also organizations which deal with the planning of group therapy. Treatment cost is covered by health insurance. Honorarium to doctors and treatment cost at the thermes is paid immediately by health insurance, with a copayment of 30 to 50%. The staying cost can be paid as “prise en charge” by submitting receits and the travel expenses can be discounted by S. N. C. F. (National Railway Company in France). The spa therapy of skin diseases in France, generally, is carried out under protectionism, contrariwise, it, as a rule, is carried out under the policy of training, in Japan.

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