Salt crystals good for infectious skin disease

Skin problems? Take a bath is the Dead Sea is a common heard advice. The salt water is supposed to be beneficial. But is this really true? According to doctor Bing Thio of the Erasmus Medical Center in Holland the salt has no beneficial effects on the skin. It dehydrates the skin and that causes itchiness because it attracts moist.

But a salty bath can help with skin conditions like eczema, psoriasis and other infectious diseases. Salt reflects light in all directions, because it is a crystal. Because of that the light gets to the skin more dispersed when there is salt on the skin. With some skin diseases like psoriasis and eczema the immune system is working too hard. And light suppresses the activity of the immune system. So the benefits of salt for the skin lie in the fact that it is a crystal. In theory you could also use sugar, but that would not be so practical, because that gets very sticky.

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