HIGH ALTITUDE SICKNESS & PREVENTION
Most people who go into Tibet care high altitude
sickness. The air gets thinner when the altitude rises higher.
Oxygen content in air becomes relatively less when the rise
of altitude is quicker for instance when entering Tibet
by plane.You can not get acclimatize in new environment
condition quickly and yours body feels uncomfortable symptoms.
Symptom of high altitude sickness usually are headache,
dizzy, asthma, fatigue, insomnia, loosing appetite, some
peoples who suffer from hypertension and heart trouble should
pay more attention to HAS. But if you treat HAS carefully
it can be avoided.
Prevention Short of oxygen at
high altitude is the basic reason for suffers from HAS.
Many places in Tibet have canned oxygen for sale. You may
buy one or two when in need.If yours symtion is not serious
you would better not take oxygen below method may prove
helpful.
There are some medicines shops in Lhasa sell
medicine for preventing High Altitude Sickness people who
want to get more safety medicine should go to Hospitals
where you can have medicines in prevention recommended by
doctors. Every day you should drink 30grams water with brown
sugar( do not use white sugar instead) and take several
composite vitamin pills for 3 days which can be reduce from
suffering from High altitude sickness.
