# Climatotherapy

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'''Climatotherapy''' refers to temporary or permanent relocation of a patient to a region with a [climate](/source/climate) more favourable to recovery from or management of a condition. Examples include:
* The [partial pressure](/source/partial_pressure) of oxygen is lower at high altitude, so a person with [sickle cell disease](/source/sickle_cell_disease) might move to a lower altitude to reduce the number of sickle crises.<ref name="urlSickle Cell Disease-What Increases Your Risk">{{cite web |url=http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/sickle-cell-disease-what-increases-your-risk |title=Sickle Cell Disease-What Increases Your Risk |format= |accessdate=}}</ref><!-- This is ''awfully'' close to [WP:SYN](/source/WP%3ASYN), as the source does not make any connection to "climatotherapy". -->
* Several sites around the world are advertised or studied as possibly of therapeutic benefit to patients with [psoriasis](/source/psoriasis), most notably the [Dead Sea](/source/Dead_Sea) region.<ref>[http://www.psoriasis.org/treatment/psoriasis/sun/other_sites.php Climatotherapy sites] {{webarchive|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090203130734/http://psoriasis.org:80/treatment/psoriasis/sun/other_sites.php|date=2009=-02-03}} National Psoriasis Foundation</ref><ref name=Hodak2003>{{Cite journal
 | last = Hodak | first = Emmilia
 |author2=Alice B. Gottlieb |author3=Tsvi Segal |author4=Yael Politi |author5=Lea Maron |author6=Jaqueline Sulkes |author7=Michael David
  | year = 2003
 | title = Climatotherapy at the Dead Sea is a remittive therapy for psoriasis: combined effects on epidermal and immunologic activation
 | journal = Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
 | volume = 49
 | pages = 451–7
 | doi = 10.1067/S0190-9622(03)00916-2
 | pmid = 12963909
 | issue = 3
}}</ref>

==See also==
* [Weather pains](/source/Weather_pains)
* [Meteoropathy](/source/Meteoropathy)
* [Thalassotherapy](/source/Thalassotherapy)

== References ==

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Category:Natural environment based therapies

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