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Hirudotherapy is a method of treatment using medical leeches. Hirudotherapy is a subsidiary branch of physical therapy. Medical leeches are considered "bases", the reserves of which are enzymes and biologically active components. They are able to provide analgesic, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory and other effects on the body. To be able treatment of medical leeches, a person must come to the consultation to girudoterapevt.


Who girudoterapevt?

Girudoterapevt – a specialist with higher education, the main activity of which is the treatment with leeches. In addition, girudoterapii required to have additional verified qualification in reflexology.

Leeches, which the doctor uses to treat patients, grown in special bio-mills under sterile conditions.


The method of treatment with leeches

Leeches are used for treatment of various diseases. To the body of the person they puts on the existing schemes. To select a specific place, the doctor collects the necessary information about the illness, about the activity of the pathological process, the patient's condition. The duration of sucking the blood varies with time and can reach hours. The minimum exposure time is 10 minutes. After the procedure, leeches are removed either by a doctor or off independently. Again leeches are not used, they are destroyed by placing in bleach.

The therapeutic effect is achieved due to:

  • Dosed the bloodletting. One animal is able to suck up to 15 ml of blood.
  • The substances having biological activity. They enter the body from the saliva of leeches. The main medical impact of hirudin. This anticoagulant helps to reduce blood clotting.
  • Due to counter reactions that occur at the bite of leeches.

The depth of procosa skin does not exceed 2 mm, after which the wound the leech injects its saliva. After expiration of the required exposure time, the leech is removed, but the placethe bite continues to bleed. To stop bleeding may take up to 16 hours.


What diseases cures girudoterapevt?

Visit girudoterapevt are many people suffering from a variety of diseases.

A specialist can assist in the fight against the following diseases:

  • Diseases of the blood vessels and heart. Among these diseases, angina, ischemia, atherosclerosis, hypotension and hypertension, varicose veins, thrombosis, thrombophlebitis, heart failure.
  • Disease urological orientation – urethritis, prostatitis, cystitis.
  • Skin diseases – furunculosis, acne, skin eczema, ulcerative lesions, psoriasis.
  • Diseases of the abdomen: pancreatitis, colitis, cirrhosis, gastritis, dyskinesia of bile ducts, pyelonephritis, urolithiasis.
  • Diseases of ENT organs: sinusitis, sinusitis, otitis, neuritis.
  • Eye disease with iridocyclitis, keratitis, and glaucoma.
  • Diseases of female sexual sphere: cysts, fibroids, adhesions, fibroids, mastitis, endometriosis, adnexitis.
  • Disease allergic: urticaria, asthma, rhinitis.
  • Endocrine disease areas: diabetes, thyrotoxicosis.

In addition, the treatment of medical leeches can cure headaches, to depression, to speed up the recovery process after injuries. Leech therapy is actively used in cosmetics, helping women in the fight against cellulite and excess weight.

Therapeutic effect is associated primarily with popadenii in the blood enzymes, among which are:

  • Hirudin – helps to slow down blood clotting, inhibits thrombin;

  • Hyaluronidase – enhances the action of drugs applied to the skin and under it, it improves the permeability of the dermis to other components of saliva;

  • Destability complex – has a strong protivotoksicheskoe action, is of interest in terms of treatment of encephalopathy;
  • Bellini and agony is able to relieve inflammation in the human body.

Treatment of what organs does girudoterapevt?

As with the help of medical leeches is possible to cope with many diseases, girudoterapevt deals with the treatment of almost all organs and systems of organs.

Often therapeutic effectsexposed:

  • Vessels;
  • Teeth;
  • Heart;
  • The spine;
  • Skin;
  • Gallbladder;
  • Kidneys;
  • Prostate and thyroid;
  • Throat;
  • The spinal cord and brain;
  • Ears, etc.

The tests that need to pass before treatment

No girudoterapevt must not start the treatment before he will have some data about the patient's condition. First and foremost, the patient will need to perform UAC. In addition, it is necessary to make analysis on FibroGen, hematocrit, you need to know thrombin time, protrombinovy index INR and blood coagulation time.

The obtained results, the doctor must study before you start the treatment.

This is important because contraindications to hirudotherapy are:

  • Anemia;
  • Reduced blood clotting and all diseases with this fact related;
  • Hemolysis;
  • Exhaustion;
  • Tuberculosis;
  • Allergic to the enzymes of the leeches;
  • Cancer.

How is the reception at girudoterapevt?

To begin with, the doctor will listen to patient complaints, then he would need to learn the history of the patient. Therefore, if there is evidence of a previously passable treatment or examination by other specialists, it is necessary to provide them to the girudoterapevt.

Then the doctor will send a patient to undergo necessary examinations, if any, have not yet been passed. When the results are in the hands of the doctor, he decides on the possibility to start treatment. Defines the duration of the course, its multiplicity in each case.

Girudoterapii not included in the state compulsory health workers in state hospitals. So to find this specialist in private clinics.

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