Clinical efficacy of Avène hydrotherapy measured in a large cohort of more than 10,000 atopic or psoriatic patients

Abstract

This study is the first observational study in such a large cohort demonstrating the benefit of a 3-week treatment at the Avène Hydrotherapy Centre for atopic and psoriatic patients.

Health resort medicine in non-musculoskeletal disorders: is there evidence of its effectiveness?

“…Patients with atopic dermatitis, psoriasis (Casas et al 2011;Costantino 2008a;Costantino and Lampa 2005;Delfino et al 2003;Farina et al 2011;Merial-Kieny et al 2011;Taieb et al 2011;Tsoureli-Nikita et al 2002) or inherited ichthyosis (Bodemer et al 2011) received balneotherapy including baths, showers, spray baths, underwater massages, drinking cures and mud therapy. In the studies, significant short-and longterm improvements in clinical outcomes such as severity of disease and qol were achieved.…”

“…Most of the 22 uncontrolled studies report significant within-group improvements over time. In fact, evidence was found suggesting that (1) mineral water drinking cure may reduce dyspeptic symptoms (Anti et al 2004;Bertoni et al 2002;Gasbarrini et al 2006); (2) inhalation therapy with sulphurous thermal water can improve middle ear function in patients with chronic inflammatory ear disease (Costantino 2008b;Costantino et al 2006), nasal flows and nasal resistance in patients with chronic sinonasal disease (Staffieri and Abramo 2007) and, in combination with radon therapy, pulmonary function of asthmatics (Mitsunobu et al 2003); inhalation therapy with radioactive hydrofluoric oligomineral water may reduce mucociliary transport time and can normalize the nasal cytology in patients with chronic sinonasal inflammation (Passali et al 2013); (3) Kneipp applications may decrease dysesthesia in patients with peripheral neuropathy (Uehleke and Woehling 2008) and positively influence the frequency of respiratory infections and subjective well-being in patients with COPD (Goedsche et al 2007); (4) balneotherapy administered in various modalities positively influences inflammation and qol in patients with atopic dermatitis and psoriasis (Casas et al 2011;Merial-Kieny et al 2011;Taieb et al 2011;Tsoureli-Nikita et al 2002) and improves qol and clinical symptoms in patients with inherited ichthyosis (Bodemer et al 2011); (5) aquatic exercise may improve functional capacity and qol in patients with advanced heart failure (Municino et al 2006); and (6) spa therapy can improve qol and mood in breast cancer patients (Strauss- Blasche et al 2005), positively influence the steroid spectrum in thyroidectomized women (Jandova et al 2008), improve burnout-related complaints and quality of sleep in subjects with mild or full burnout syndrome (Blasche et al 2010), improve metabolic syndrome (Gin et al 2013) and enhance exercise capacity in patients with COPD (Takata et al 2008).…”

Efficacy of a global supportive skin care programme with hydrotherapy after non-metastatic breast cancer treatment: A randomised, controlled study

“…It has anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory properties (Boisnic, Branchet-Gumila, & Segard, 2001;Castex-Rizzi, Charveron, & Merial-Kieny, 2011;Joly et al, 1998;Merial-Kieny, Castex-Rizzi, et al, 2011;Merial-Kieny, Mengual, et al, 2011), which are potentially responsible for its soothing, antipruritic and softening effects on the skin. The anti-inflammatory properties of Avène thermal spring water have been well documented in the treatment of severe skin disorders such as psoriasis, atopic dermatitis or inherited ichthyosis (Bodemer et al, 2011;Merial-Kieny, Castex-Rizzi, et al, 2011;Merial-Kieny, Mengual, et al, 2011), as well as in the healing of facial skin after laser resurfacing (Sulimovic et al, 2002). In our study, the patients also benefited from the optimal use of emollients, which, combined with thermal spring water, resulted in the complete resolution of xerosis in all patients after the thermal treatment.…”

“…A specific hydrotherapy programme-demonstrated to be of benefit to patients with severe skin conditions, such as atopic dermatitis, psoriasis and inherited ichthyosis (Bodemer et al, 2011;Merial-Kieny, Castex-Rizzi, et al, 2011;Merial-Kieny, Mengual, et al, 2011)-might therefore be of interest as a supportive treatment in breast cancer patients.…”

Clinical efficacy of Aven thermal water in dermatology

“…На сегодняшний день показания для использо-вания термальной воды Авен в дерматологической и косметологической практике довольно обширны. Так, в многочисленных публикациях отражены дан-ные исследований, подтверждающие высокую эф-фективность и выраженное положительное влияние на качество жизни пациентов использования тер-мальной воды Авен при псориазе, атопическом дер-матите, ихтиозе, ожогах, а также в раннем послеопе-рационном периоде после аблятивных процедур на коже лица [8][9][10].…”