Children can benefit from a thermal cure sooner or later depending on the therapeutic indication:
Atopic dermatitis and eczema: from 6 months (or even 3 months in some stations).
ENT respiratory tract (serous otitis, asthma, chronic bronchitis, etc.): from 3 years old.
Obesity, overweight: from 8 or 10 years old.
In thalassotherapy, if mother-baby cures exist (with babies from 3 to 9 months), they remain above all centered on the young mother to help her recover from pregnancy and childbirth. Babies do not benefit from thalassotherapy treatments strictly speaking, but can benefit from massages during introductory workshops and aquatic awakening sessions.
Are there any contraindications to all these cures?
For the hydrotherapy, there are several contraindications: progressive affections (infectious, tumoral, inflammatory), recent cardiac or cerebral accident, progressive venous thrombosis, state of immunosuppression. It is up to the prescribing physician to judge whether there is any contraindication. Regarding thalassotherapy, unconsolidated fractures, recent heart or stroke, certain skin diseases, cancers in the acute phase are contraindications. Talk to your doctor before booking your stay.
What is the optimal duration of a thalassotherapy or thermal spa treatment?
A thermal cure covered by social security must include 18 days of care, or 21 calendar days. The minimum duration to benefit from the benefits of a thalasso treatment is 6 days, 12 days being the ideal for a health treatment with lasting effects.
What cures can be covered by the security?
Thalassotherapy cannot be covered, unlike thermal cures. Two conditions for this coverage: the treatment must be prescribed on a specific form by a general practitioner or specialist, and must include 18 days of care. In the majority of cases, requests for coverage are accepted, within the limit of one treatment per therapeutic orientation per year.
