Tips for High Altitude Sickness

People with Following Diseases Better Not Go to Plateau

Before going to plateau, must do a strict physical examination. If check out some thing wrong with heart, lung, brain, liver, kidney, serious anemia or hypertension, please don't come into plateau blindly. If someone with common diseases, must take necessary measures before going, like taking oxygen.

Tips after Reaching Plateau

1.When reach the plateau, everybody will feel different degree chest distress, short breath, dyspnoea and other oxygen-poor symptoms, the serious ones will appear headache, muscle pain, insomnia and other symptoms. All of these symptoms are normal. If you can protect yourself correctly, all of these symptoms will relieve or disappear. After relieving, you should control your actions to ensure safe.

2. People often use oxygen to relieve these symptoms. Of course, taking oxygen can relieve chest distress, short breathe, dyspnoea and other symptoms. Once you stop taking oxygen, these symptoms will appear again. It will last the time to adapt to plateau environment. So, if these symptoms are not serious, especially very light when you stay quietly, please don't take oxygen. It will help you adapt to the environment more quickly.

3. When you just come to plateau, please don't eat or drink too much to increase the burden of digestive organ, then, you can adapt to the environment better. You'd better not  smoke or drink alcohol.

4. Eat more vegetables, fruits and other things with rich vitamin. Drink large amount of water, the more the better.

5. When you just reach plateau, please don't walk quickly, run, or do physical labor. Take a rest for half day is better. In the first night after you reach plateau, please go to bed early and sleep more.

6. Please take care of cold which is the main cause of acute high altitude pulmonary edema. Temperature range on plateau is great; it is easy to get cold. So, please keep in mind that dress more clothes.

7. After coming into plateau, please first to lower altitude place, then come to higher altitude place which will be beneficial for adapting to high altitude climate. The journey should be as easy as it can.

8. Don't panic when high altitude sickness appears; should take treatment base on its degree. If the symptom is light, just take a rest, drink more water and do less sport, then the symptoms will relieve or disappear; if the symptoms are serious so that affect sleep, you can take some medicine to treat it; if the symptoms are too serious, you must go to hospital to treat; if you can't endure the high altitude sickness, you can take the earliest plane back to inland, then the symptoms will relieve immediately.

9. Some times, we heard of someone lost life for high altitude sickness. In fact, the reasons cause the death is the complicating disease which caused by high altitude sickness. So, we will not advise people with cold, disease about heart, lung, brain, liver, kidney, serious anemia and hypertensive to go to Tibet for fear that causing these diseases.

10. Please choose a good hotel to live in so you can get comfortable rest and relax yourself, which is beneficial to overcome high altitude sickness. Furthermore, please open the window when you sleep to let the air come in.

11. Please choose better tourist bus to make your journey more comfortable.

12. Commonly used medicine to relieve high altitude sickness: rhodiola, glucose and so on. You should take these medicines since two days before you going to plateau so that it can effectively prevent high altitude sickness.

13. Solar protection measures will decrease internal water evaporate which can relieve high altitude sickness indirectly.