Topically applied heat/therapy for skin lesions and other diseases

A method for treating Cutaneous Leishmaniasis comprising the steps of:

• a) placing a concentrated heat source adjacent to and spaced from at least one lesion of said one or more lesions on the skin of a patient containing the parasitic infection Leishmaniasis;
• b) programming and directing heated air from said heat source at said at least one or more lesions at a selected predetermined safe temperature, to achieve the preferred temperature of the at least one skin lesion of the skin being treated to inactivate the parasitic infection, and at a selected safe air pressure and said heat source being spaced from, and avoiding all contact with, during treatment, said at least one or more lesions;
• c) said heated air directed from said heat source being applied to a full area of said at least one lesion of said one or more lesions without movement of said heat source;
• d) said heat source producing and directing said air having a temperature sufficient for, and for a sufficient time, to destroy said parasitic infection in said at least one lesion of said one or more lesions;
• e) monitoring said heat source for ensuring that said heated air source produces and directs said programmed heated air to the skin of the patient, so that the skin of the patient has a temperature sufficient for, and for a sufficient time, to destroy pathogens in said at least one skin lesion;
• and,
• f) monitoring the skin for ensuring that the skin does not exceed a safe temperature threshold of the skin.

A method of using heat therapy for treating Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, cancers including melanoma, squamous cell and basal cell cancer, and other subcutaneous carcinomas and abnormal pre-cancer dysplasia cells, subject to externally applied heat, viral, bacterial, protozoal, fungal infections, tick-borne diseases, and other parasitic infections of the skin, comprising the steps of:

• a) placing a concentrated heat source adjacent to and spaced from and avoiding all contact with, during treatment, a lesion on the skin of a patient containing one of said infections;
• b) programming said heat source for producing and directing said air at a skin lesion so that said hot air being delivered to said lesion is about 120 degrees F. at the site of the lesion having a surface temperature at the site of the lesion sufficient for, and for a sufficient time, to destroy pathogens in said lesion;
• c) directing heated air from said heat source at said lesion;
• d) applying said heated air directed from said heat source to a full area of said lesion without moving said heat source;
• e) monitoring said heat source for ensuring that hot air being delivered to said lesion does not exceed a predetermined safe temperature threshold of hot air;
• and,
• f) mounting a display on or adjacent said heat source showing said programmed desired surface temperature of said lesion while being treated and a temperature of air at the site of the lesion.