Baile Olanesti Resort
Baile Olanesti Resort
Baile Olanesti resort is situated 20 km from Rm. Valcea, Olt Valley, on either side of the Olanesti Paraul, at an altitude of 450 meters, in the center of a small depression of the Southern Carpathians, open in the south and closed to the north and west by the limestone ridges of the Capatinii Mountains. It is crossed by a picturesque valley, surrounded by rich forests.
Baile Olanesti is a spa resort of general interest, with permanent activity and occupies the first place among the Romanian spa resorts in terms of the number of springs, their daily flow, as well as the variety of composition and concentration of mineral waters.
In the resort there are more than 35 hydro-mineral sources, both as natural springs and as a result of drilling. These are grouped into three main types of mineral waters, at different stages of mineralization of the soul.
Baile Olanesti ranks first among the Romanian spa resorts in terms of the number of springs, their total daily flow rate, as well as the variety of mineral water composition and concentration. In the resort there are more than 35 hydro-mineral sources, both as natural springs and as a result of drilling and mining works (wells and galleries). A number of 15 mineral springs are captured for internal cure are uncaptured. Two mineral springs and four mineral water wells are used for external cure (balneology).
In Baile Olanesti resort you can treat them:
– diseases of the digestive system and the adjoining glands (chronic enterocolitis, chronic gastritis, sequelae of the operated stomach, peptic ulcer);
– digestive disorders (chronic inflammatory bowel disease, chronic non-calculous cholicystitis, dyskinesias, biliary lithiasis, pancreatitis, diabetic hepatic steatosis);
– nutritional and metabolic diseases (diabetes mellitus, dyslipidaemia, gout, hyperuricaemia, obesity);
– chronic kidney diseases (renal lithiasis, pyelitis, cystitis, pyelocystitis);
– occupational diseases (chronic heavy metal poisoning: lead, mercury, arsenic);
– respiratory diseases (bronchial asthma, chronic asthmatic bronchitis, chronic allergic nonubercular rhinosinusitis);
– cardiovascular diseases
– peripheral arteriopathies
The spa treatment in Olanesti includes the main objectives of modern therapy: prophylactic (primary prophylaxis or health cure in healthy people, and secondary prophylaxis – prevention of disease recurrence), curative and recuperative.
Spa treatment in Olanesti is divided into crenotherapy (treatment with mineral waters) and auxiliary treatment (hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, phototherapy, aerotherapy, physiotherapy, physiotherapy).
In 1910 Dr. Ion Puturianu grouped the mineral springs from Baile Olanesti into several categories according to their chemical composition and their action on the body:
– 14 iodide springs
– 6 sulphur springs and sodium chloride springs
– 4 springs with diuretic waters
– 1 bicarbonate spring with abundant gas emissions
– 2 purgative springs
– 2 ferruginous springs
– 2 springs with mixed composition.
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