[Sanatorium-health resort treatment as a factor in the secondary prevention of peptic ulcer].

Generalization of the results of the follow up of 432 patients with gastric and duodenal ulcer has established that rehabilitation by the type of hospital-sanatorium-polyclinic type has a preference over the traditional hospital-polyclinic-sanatorium and two-stage sanatorium-polyclinic system. Best results of rehabilitation are achieved when patients are admitted to a sanatorium in the early stage of the disease and during remission and in application of the methods of mud therapy and instrumental physiotherapy. Repeated sanatorium treatment potentiates the rehabilitation effect in patients with a frequently recurring form of the disease.