[Changes in the subjective state of patients with chronic prostatitis after treatment at a health resort].

In 102 patients with chronic prostatitis, a scoring system was employed to obtain a numerical score for those symptoms characteristic of the illness in question. This permitted the determination of such items as severity of the condition, degree of the depressive syndrome, efficacy of the treatment adopted without conducting paraclinical investigations and with taking into account of attitude of patients toward both the illness and modes of its treatment.

[The rehabilitation of children with chronic pyelonephritis and who have lived for a long time under radiation-hazard conditions].

Isolated and complex effects of environmental factors on adaptation abilities of the body, function of different organs and systems, composition of peripheral blood and course of disease were studies in 245 children aging from 6 to 14 years with remitted chronic pyelonephritis with normal renal function. Mineral water "Naftusia" (100-200 ml a day), lumbar applications of ozocerite, mineral baths and exercise therapy were used. Our findings give a reason to consider sanatory rehabilitation a promising method of health promotion and correction of functional disorders.