Monday, December 21, 2009

CLASSIFICATION OF MINERAL WATER AND MEDICAL -1

1.1. Mineral (therapeutic) of water - the natural underground water, which have on the human therapeutic effect due to high content of useful biologically active components, especially the gas composition or the common ion - salt composition of water. Mineral (therapeutic) are divided into drinking water and medical treatment - mineral water, and water, with spa (outside) appointment. 
1.2. Natural Mineral Water canteens - underground water, genetically timed to protected from human impacts aquifers that have a constant chemical composition in a particular area and do not contain the natural state of man-made components of organic and inorganic origin. 
1.3. Drink waters artificially mineralized - drinks, cooked only on the basis of drinking water, appropriate hygienic standards SanPiN, with the addition of food salts and other authorized by Ministry of Health of Russia, fillers, and having a total mineralization of not more than 2,0 g / cc. dm. Drinking artificially mineralized water are not indications for therapeutic use. 
1.4. Curative mud (peloids) - natural colloidal organo - mineral formations (silt, peat, Sopochnyj and others) who provide the human organism due to its curative effects of ductility, high heat capacity and the slow heat transfer, the content of biologically active substances (salts, gases, vitamins, enzymes , hormones, and others) and living organisms. 
3. The main provisions governing the appointment of treatment of natural resources 
Balneotherapy includes domestic (drinking) and outdoor (spa) the application of mineral water in the form of general and local baths, swimming in the pools. 
Mud therapy - external application of mud in the form of general and local applications, mud baths of water, suspensions, wrappings and less for intracavitary procedures - tampons, as well as their use in combination with physiotherapy procedures (galvano - dirt, mud electrophoresis solution) and in a variety of mud drugs - extracts gumizoley, expression, ointments. 
Key indicators of balneology medical significance of mineral waters - total salinity, ionic composition, the presence of dissolved gases and spontaneous, organic matter content and trace elements that have biological activity, radioactivity, the rate of the reaction medium (the size of pH), temperature. 
Spa valuable therapeutic mud is determined by moisture capacity (natural moisture content), texture (shear stability), the degree of pollution of the major factions, the specific heat and heat deterrent capability, the ratio of organic and mineral parts mineralized mud mortar, the presence of hydrogen sulfide and iron sulfides, oxidation - reduction potential and the reaction medium (indicators of Eh and pH). 
Therapeutic value of these indicators of mineral waters and therapeutic mud is determined experimentally and clinically tested. 
3.1. Drinking natural mineral waters are divided into therapeutic and medical - for dining. 
For mineral water treatment - table waters consist of water with a salinity of 1 to 10 g / cu. dm or less mineralization, containing biologically active microcomponents, the mass concentration of not lower than balnealogical standards adopted in Russia. The magnitude of total mineralization, they are divided into Low-mineralized from 1 to 5 g / cu. dm and srednemineralizovannye from 5 to 10 g / cu. dm. 

Medical - table mineral waters are used as medicine at course assignment. Low-mineralized water can be used as a table beverage. 
By drinking cure with mineral waters are waters with a salinity of 10 to 15 g / cu. dm or less mineralization to the presence of elevated amounts of arsenic, boron and some other biologically active microcomponents. permitted the use of medicinal waters, and higher salinity (20 - 25 g / cu. dm). In exceptional cases, for special, approved by Ministry of Health of Russia, the technique is applied with greater mineralization. 
Treatment for drinking water have a pronounced therapeutic effect on the human body and are used only on prescription in certain dosages. 
3.2. Mineral water used for external procedures are mineralization of 15 g / cu. DM and higher, until the brine with a salinity of 150 - 300 g / cu. dm mainly of sodium chloride, or lower salinity in the content of biologically active components - bromine, iodine, hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, radon of 185 Bq / cu. dm (5 nCi / cu. dm). 
3.5. In practice, the resort is permitted to use the so-called "artificial" therapeutic mud. Artificial therapeutic mud must be prepared on the basis of natural raw materials (clay, silt, peat, mineral waters), by modeling, or to stimulate natural processes gryazeobrazovaniya (rich in organic matter, sulphides, water-soluble salts). Cooked this way peloids are classified according to the same gradations as the natural, and their therapeutic significance are studied and tested clinically. 
4. Requirements for the quality of mineral waters and therapeutic muds 
4.1. Qualitative composition of drinking mineral waters on chemical indicators should meet the requirements of normative documents. 
For organoleptic characteristics mineral water must meet the following requirements: appearance - mineral water should be transparent, without any foreign matter, possibly with little natural precipitation of mineral salts, color - or a colorless liquid with a hint of yellow to green and the taste and odor - characteristic of complex dissolved substances. 
4.6. Requirements for the quality of curative mud, include organoleptic, physico - chemical and sanitary - microbiological indicators. 
4.6.1. By the organoleptic characteristics include: color, odor, texture and structure of the mud. 
By color: peat, mud can be brown, black, gray - brown; sapropel mud can be brown, beige, black, olive, have brown, green, blue and other shades; sulphide - silt mud must be intensely black (best quality dirt) or black, sometimes dark - gray, gray, and light - gray variety sulphide - silt muds indicate that they are low quality, distinctive colors for Sopochnyj muds are gray, blue - gray, dark - gray, sometimes black. 
By smell: all groups of mud should be either odorless or have the smell of hydrogen sulfide, a faint putrid, peat, and sapropel mud - swamp, and Sopochnyj - weak oil. Mud should not have a smelly (fecal), cadaveric or other non-specific odors. 
For consistency: the mud should be viscous - plastic (greasy), sometimes compacted peat, mud can be loose, lumpy, sapropel - gelatinous, Sopochnyj - powder. Not allowed tekucheobraznaya (liquefaction) or, conversely, a firm consistency.