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Heat, infrared and the body's response

Session settings

Session settings are the operational recipe for a sauna session: preheat, session length, sauna temperature, ozone level, and how often sessions are repeated. They are an operating procedure rather than a clinical one, and the full version ships with each sauna.

Also called programme, session programme

Start with who should not be in the sauna. Settings come second to the published exclusions — check who should not use an ozone sauna — and to drinking enough water and avoiding alcohol beforehand. See also Hyperthermia.

What the settings cover.

  • Preheating the empty sauna, doors closed. The first preheat of the day, or one after a long gap, takes 10 to 20 minutes depending on the room’s ambient air.
  • Session length — 30 minutes is the figure used consistently.
  • Sauna temperature — 30 to 37 °C for a first session, above 37 °C reserved for people in good health, with ozone breaking down above about 40 °C.
  • Ozone level — one of ten steps on the display, each step 10% of the generator’s 500 mg/h output, started low and raised gradually. The oxygen feed stays at 2 l/min throughout.
  • Aftercare — lying down for about 20 minutes.
  • Frequency — one to three sessions a week to begin with, building after two to three weeks, at least ten before deciding how the sessions suit you.

What that progression is. Stepping the ozone level up gradually and lengthening the course after a fortnight is an operating convention built on experience rather than a clinical dosing schedule.

Where the full version lives. It ships with your Salvagente sauna, in the model’s operating manual and the session documentation alongside it, and the model’s product page carries the specification summary. Choosing settings for someone with a diagnosed condition is a practitioner’s decision, made with their medical history to hand.

Why it matters here

It is the day-to-day craft of running a sauna well: consistent settings, a record for each client, and changing one thing at a time so you can tell what caused a change.

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