How to use a quartz lamp

General cleaning, even with the use of modern cleaning products, is not capable of ensuring perfect sterility of the rooms, especially if there is a person with flu or respiratory diseases in the house. To destroy the microbes that live in the air, you can use a quartz lamp, an improved invention of Soviet times.

What is a quartz lamp for?

The ultraviolet radiation emitted by the device disinfects the room, killing bacteria. With the help of a lamp it is possible to sterilize not only the air in the rooms, but also upholstered furniture with children's toys, in which many germs and infections accumulate.

The equipment is recommended for use in inflammatory processes in the throat and mouth, from trophic ulcers, bedsores and dermatological diseases.The device is effective for otitis media, colds, pain in the joints and muscle dysfunction.

By destroying microbes, a quartz lamp stimulates the regeneration of the skin, helps the immune system to cope with the infection that attacks the body. It is used to sterilize manicure accessories, and some housewives process conservation with ultraviolet light.

Types of quartz lamps

Bactericidal lamp type is suitable for disinfecting premises, and is more often used in medical institutions. Ultraviolet rays emanating from the device, not only kill bacteria, but also saturate the air with ozone, poisonous to humans.

Physiotherapeutic varieties of lesser power are intended for home use and local irradiation, for example, the nasal or oral mucosa.

Open and closed
Flasks for open-type lamps are made of quartz glass, they are fixed on special supports during switching on, hooked onto walls or the ceiling, necessarily directing ultraviolet radiation into the room. A type called “crystal”, which can be installed on a table or a floor covering, is popular.The variety of "electronics" has additional infrared emitters, similar to an ordinary desk lamp, and the "sun" is used for irradiation of a local type.

Closed versions are designed for medical and children's health facilities. They are built into the ventilation system, with which disinfected air is supplied to the premises.

Screened varieties are equipped with reflective panels, due to which ultraviolet rays go up, and almost do not fall on the people in the room.

Special Purpose Options
Quartz devices with low power, emitting a pleasant blue light, are used at home. They irradiate the skin affected by psoriasis or acne, they treat sore joints, inflamed mucous membranes of the nose or throat, and auditory passages during otitis. They are compact and safe, usually sold with special nozzles and protective glasses.

By type of attachment
Floor and table varieties are convenient in everyday life; they can be transferred from one room to another in order to carry out decontamination. Mounted options are fixed on the wall under the ceiling, have a limited scope, so they are not in demand.

How to use a quartz lamp

Before disinfection, it is necessary to remove people from the room, ultraviolet radiation for children is especially dangerous. Pets close up in other rooms, remove the flower pots. Install a lamp, put on goggles, turn on the device, leave the room, closing the door, or sliding the curtains separating it from the others.

Wait 15 to 30 minutes, turn off the machine, trying not to breathe air saturated with ozone. Open wide the windows to ventilate the room. Use the lamp to disinfect another room only after it has completely cooled.

Do not touch the glass tube. If there is an imprint on it, you need to wipe the surface of the device with a soft cloth moistened with alcohol solution.

How to quartz person

Irradiation is possible only after consulting a doctor. Use only devices with low power, intended for human quartz treatment, can not use germicidal lamps.

Protect the cornea with special glasses, which must be sold with the lamp. Apply to the area of ​​skin to be irradiated with an oil or sunblock.Distribute a thin layer of the drug evenly over the body. The remaining parts should be covered with a towel or other cloth so that UV rays do not fall on them.

Heat the lamp for 5 minutes and then bring it to the skin. There should be no indoor flowers or pets near the patient during irradiation. Keep the device at a distance of 50 cm from the treated area. The first session should last 30 seconds, it is recommended to conduct 1 quartzization per day. Duration of irradiation course is 5 days. The second session should be increased by 30 seconds. The duration of the fifth is about 3 minutes, but not longer.

The patient should feel pleasantly warm, so if necessary, the lamp can be approached or removed. You can not keep the device perpendicular to the irradiated area, right when the rays fall at a slight angle.

Overexposing the lamp to the skin may cause a burn or pigment spots. Patients who have undergone the procedure are recommended rest, preferably go to bed and cover with a rug or blanket. You can not go into the cold or drafts within an hour, so quartz treatment is best done at bedtime.

Blue lamp and small children

Babies who are under 3 years old can be irradiated with a cold and a runny nose. Recommend to carry out procedures when the child is asleep. You should put a diaper or a small towel on your eyes. It is recommended to constantly touch the skin of a small patient: it should be warm, but not too hot. It is better to underexpose than overheat.

The lamp is brought to the heels and back instead of mustard plaster, the maxillary sinuses are processed, the forehead and the area behind the ear to spread out the nose. Warming up is best done overnight so that the child stays warm after the procedure. Wool socks can be worn on the legs after exposure to enhance the effect.

Quartz lamp and runny nose

The device can not be used for sinus, but it copes with the usual cold. It is recommended to purchase devices with special tubes for treating the nasal and oral cavities. First you need to wash the maxillary sinuses with salt water, rinse the throat. Turn on the device for a few minutes, always wearing glasses.

It is better to start with 30 seconds, and carry out 1 procedure per day. 4 days is enough to make the inflammation go away. Do not irradiate the nose or throat for more than 2 minutes,so as not to burn the mucous membranes. It is advisable not to use drops from a cold in a few hours.

Quartz precautions

• The room after quartz treatment needs to be aired.
• Safety glasses will protect your eyes from burns.
• Do not look at the switched on lamp, touch heated surfaces while the machine is running.
• For patients with dry skin, prone to cracking, and dilated vessels quartz device is absolutely contraindicated.
• The dosage and duration of the course of treatment should be prescribed by a doctor, it is not necessary to engage in independent activities, because you cannot joke with such medical devices.
• It is forbidden to sunbathe under open-type quartz lamps.

There is a group of patients to whom ultraviolet radiation brings only harm. Radiation is contraindicated for people with body temperature above 38 degrees, renal and cardiovascular insufficiency, and malignant as well as benign tumors.

You can not use the lamp in diseases of the thyroid gland and the active form of tuberculosis, hypertension, tendency to bleeding and ulcers.Persons with advanced atherosclerosis of the brain and coronary vessels, blood diseases and acute inflammatory processes are included in the category of people who are contraindicated in ultraviolet therapy.

Patients feeling a headache or other discomforts during the procedure should stop irradiation and abandon this method.

Quartz lamp can be a great helper for people who are prone to colds, and young mothers who often suffer from children. You need to understand that this medical device does not harm only with proper use and compliance with instructions.