What is actually being treated in Vrnjacka Banja
Vrnjacka Banja is a balneological resort in the south of Serbia. Due to its location in a park area on the slopes of Goč Mountain, it is also a popular recreational center of the country. All treatment programs of the resort are based on the use of four mineral water springs with different composition. The resort specializes in treatment of diabetes mellitus, diseases of digestive system and musculoskeletal apparatus. Mineral water is also used here to treat related diseases of the urogenital system, gynecological diseases (including infertility), obesity and metabolic disorders. Rehabilitation of patients, who have undergone severe surgeries, traumas, and fractures, is very effective in the clinic of Vrnjacka Banja.
Indications for treatment in Vrnjacka Banja
Metabolic disturbances
- Diabetes mellitus types 1 and 2, complications of diabetes mellitus
- Obesity
- Gout
Diseases of digestive system
- Condition after the treatment of jaundice
- Pathological conditions after hepatitis
- Initial stages of liver cirrhosis
- Diseases of the pancreas
- Gallbladder and bile ducts diseases
- Gastric and duodenal ulcer
- Gastroesophageal reflux
- Dyspepsia
- Enteritis, enterocolitis, colitis
- Crohn's disease
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Other diseases of the digestive tract
- Condition after operations on the stomach, intestines, esophagus, gallbladder, after cholecystectomy
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system
- Rheumatic diseases
- Post-traumatic states
- Degenerative states
Urogenital system diseases
- Infectious kidney, bladder and urinary tract diseases
- Kidney stone disease
- Functional kidney disorders
- Chronic prostate inflammation
Gynaecological diseases
- Chronic gynecological diseases
- Infertility
How is treatment carried out in Vrnjacka Banja
All guests of Vrnjacka Banja resort undergo treatment at the city clinic "Merkur", which was opened back in 1946. The clinic employs about 150 medical staff, including 40 doctors, two of whom are doctors of medical sciences. Patients can expect to have a consultation with a therapist, gastroenterologist, endocrinologist, cardiologist, gynecologist, urologist, physiotherapist, nutritionist, and other specialties. The clinic "Merkur" has at its disposal its own biochemical laboratory and hardware diagnostics rooms, which allows the doctor to prescribe treatment, getting a full picture of the patient's health. On the basis of the clinic is carried out:
- General urine analysis
- Wide spectrum of biochemical analyses
- Glucose tolerance test
- Glycemia test
- General lipid profile monitoring
- Thyroid hormone tests
- Ultrasound of heart and blood vessels, peritoneal organs, mammography, urology and gynecology ultrasound
- Computer ergometry
- Endoscopic diagnostics
- Electromyoneurography
Mineral springs of the resort
As it was said earlier, all treatment in Vrnjacka Banja is based on local mineral water, which is drunk and used for balneological procedures. In total, there are seven springs at the resort, and only four of them are used in the treatment programs.
«Tepla Voda». Low-mineralized low acidic hydrocarbonate-sodium carbonate water (36.5 °C, pH = 6.4). The spring is interesting due to two things: firstly, it is called the "Roman" spring in the city, because the healing properties of this water were used by Roman soldiers almost 2000 years ago. And secondly, it is the only source of mineral water in the world, which temperature coincides with the body temperature of a healthy person. Today, water from the spring "Warm Water" is used to treat chronic gastritis and ulcers, it improves motor skills and empty the gallbladder with ducts, improves the motor skills of the colon. It is also indicated for people who have undergone surgery on the stomach and pancreas, completed the treatment of chronic gastritis and simply as a prevention of gastrointestinal diseases.
«Jezero». Low saline low acidic alkaline earth carbonate water, sodium bicarbonate (27 °C, pH = 6.2). It is used to treat various diseases of the digestive system, bile ducts, genitourinary system, anemia, diabetes mellitus, infectious ophthalmic diseases.
«Slatina». Low-mineralized alkaline earth carbonate cold mineral water, sodium hydrogen carbonate (14 °C, pH = 6.1). It is used in combination with other waters, especially effective for anemia and poor appetite.
«Snežnik». Low-mineralised alkaline earth slightly acidic cold mineral water (17 °C, pH = 6.2), the main active components of which are sodium, calcium, magnesium and carbonate. It is prescribed for the treatment of chronic gastritis, reduced stomach motor and biliary tract in the postoperative period, dyspepsia, diabetes mellitus, with delayed evacuation of the intestine, pancreatic juice and bile content.
The course of drinking treatment normalizes carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, activates tissue metabolism processes, enhances the action of a number of enzymes. The clinic "Merkur" has achieved special success in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Drinking treatment, supplemented with a number of balneological and other procedures, allows achieving a significant reduction in hyperglycemia, activates the formation of ATP, increases the sensitivity of receptors to ATP. This reduces the patient's need for medicines and ecogenic insulin. The properties of Vrnjacka Banja mineral waters allow taking for treatment and providing effective assistance even to insulin-dependent patients. The clinic also opened the "School for Diabetics", where patients are taught the basic rules of comfortable and healthy life with this diagnosis.
The methods of treatment of diseases of digestive organs and urogenital system with mineral waters: enemas and vaginal irrigations are successfully used in "Merkur". In particular, enemas with thermomineral water provide high efficiency in the treatment of a wide range of diseases of the intestine, as well as in the recovery after surgery on the intestine. Vaginal mineral water irrigations allow solving a complex of problems of female urogenital system. The clinic's balneological procedures also include mineral baths, underwater whirlpool massage, inhalations.
Additional procedures
Peloidotherapy. In the "LimusRomanus" center, which is part of the "Merkur" clinic, mineral mud with a temperature of 42 °C is used. To enhance the therapeutic effect, the mud is enriched with thermo-mineral water. Mud wraps, baths, applications, massage and cosmetic procedures using peloid activate metabolic processes, normalize blood circulation and lymph flow, relieve nervous tension, relieve pain, improve the condition and appearance of the skin. Mud procedures are prescribed for gynecological and rheumatic diseases, to prevent and treat osteoporosis.
Climate therapy.
Hardware physiotherapy.
Gymnastics in the gym and swimming pool, individual and group classes.
The clinic "Merkur" also includes a spa center "FonsRomanus" (swimming pool with thermal mineral water, baths, sauna, hammam, tepidarium, massage, lymph drainage, etc.), a center for medical aesthetics, waterfall and fitness center "MerkurGym".
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Contraindications for treatment in Vrnjacka Banja
- Acute forms of diseases
- Infectious diseases
- Tuberculosis of lungs and other organs
- Malignant tumors and hemoblastoses
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Chronic diseases with a tendency to worsen and become more complicated
- Parasitic diseases
- Frequent and heavy bleeding of any etiology
- Cahexia
- Psychosis
- Epilepsy
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