"By exposing your body to salty air your symptoms like breathless ness, productive cough will gradually improve" So the blurb says. I am being encouraged to believe this will help my COPD at the price of £90 for six sessions.
It also claims that this therapy will decrease chest infections.
I am told you sit in a room for an hour the floor of which is covered in salt.
What dear community do you think.
Brian Higgins living in Bournemouth.
Hi ffederbompou
For me i think salty air is good, because this year where i have now moved close to the sea front and have been on the beach most days and sometimes walked a few miles up and down the promenade all this summer
I have definitely felt better with my breathing and wheezing.
so go for for it
Good luck
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Could also be the exercise, and the relaxation that the sight of the sea brings to many of us?? I’ve also moved house, inland, and had a better summer, breathing-wise. I’ve got stairs now, so more exercise? Let’s see how the winter goes.....🦀⛵️🏃🏻♀️ I haven’t tried salt therapy.
I looked this up a few months ago and thought how expensive it was. Can’t say whether the salt caves are useful or not. However, I do know that nebulized saline is good for shifting mucous. It comes in 0.9% (normal saline) and hypertonic saline in varying strengths up to 7%. It has to be prescribed though.
Once again I seem out of step with everyone else on the matter of salt therapy. Nurses discovered during one of my stays in hospital that salt actually makes my situation much worse and so I am to avoid saline in my nebuliser mix and salt lamps and caves. I hv emphysema COPD 71 year old male.
Good point - salt doesn’t suit everyone.
I have one near me and I have tried it a number of times with the help of discounts from groupon! I have found when they dim the lights and turn on the sea sounds I do come out feeling very relaxed but I do not feel that much better in the lungs! I have spoken to others in the room and they are seeing a significant difference? I do feel better on the East coast but tighter on the West coast?
Be Well
Could that be that the east coast is less humid that the west? I used to find a walk along the Swanage seafront was beneficial for my IPF but that no longer seems to be the case.
East coast is definitely, on the whole, less humid that the west. Colder sea and less prevailing winds bringing the moisture ashore 
You should give it a try. My husband uses the one in Edinburgh and can only give it the thumbs up. He has IPF and it certainly helps with relaxation and getting rid of phlegm and because of reduced phlegm his breathing improves. The Edinburgh one offers your first session as a free trial to see if it's suitable for you, suggest you ask the question. Good luck and hopefully hear how you get on.
Before you pay out all that money, do look at Groupon. Pretty much all the time they offer half price deals. First session free, then a couple of follow ups for about £5 each, if I remember correctly.
If I was you I would just get outside more into the sea air. This is free after all. I live by the coast in Devon and am sure this has helped me to stay mild, whereas if I had remained in London I would be worse. x
You're blessed living in Dorset ffederbompou! I spent weekends in Weymouth for 7 years in my 50s and certainly felt that way when out and about on the coastline and hills. Mind yu I still feel blessed, living in Thailand in my 60s. Both allow you to get away from the masses and, when you think about it, walking along a seashore automatically cuts down the germ-riddens around you by 50% anyway!
All very good and I think salty air has improved my productive cough...
I have just moved to West Wales so a nice stroll along the beach does it for me.
I used to work in Bournemouth and that is one beautiful stretch of coastline.
I would say, if the weather is not too cold, sit on a bench along the seafront and breath it in for free, better things to spend £90 on
I have a Salt Pipe, have used it for 3 years now, improves my Breathing. Live in Midlands now. No Sea Air. Lived in Spain for 28 years on the Beautiful Costas, Salt in abundance.
Thankyou everyone for your replies. I think I go with the fact that I live by the sea can go and get ozone for free, and also have a nice time, and I will save myself some money.
Nonetheless thankyou 15 replies. I am grateful
Brian Higgins
ffederbompou
Hi the treatment price sounds ok, please let me know if it it really does work as they are telling you, many people on here would I am sure be very interested in particular myself. Go for it and keep us all updated please. I have already heard that salt pipes help a little this treatment may be taking it one stage further.
IKeith
I prefer the actual ocean air myself. Living in Bournemouth a walk along the sea front could be advantageous weather permitting. I guess the salt caves advantage are you don't have atmospherics, just plain himalayan salt in the air to breathe.
It wouldn't hurt to give it a go, let us all know how you get on.
After the course you could invest in a salt pipe which is said to help too. I have one but I've discovered it only works while you use it 
That sounds a little expensive,you can get a Salt lamp fro Amazon for £14, and the reports for these a quite good, maybe something to look into ?
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The hospital consultant I see recommended a nebuliser with a saline solution, I was leant one for three months and could then buy one if I found it useful. I have bronchiectasis with a productive cough and I did find it helpful.
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