Acute Mountain Sickness in Tibet Plateau

Tibet Plateau also known as the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau is a vast plateau in East Asia with high altitude covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province in western China. With an average elevation exceeding 4,500m (14,800 ft), the Tibetan Plateau is sometimes called "the Roof of the World" and is the world's highest and largest plateau, with an area of 2.5 million km2.

With Tibet tour becomes more and more popular; Acute Mountain Sickness in Tibet Plateau should be paid attention to, as most people would like to enjoy Mt. Everest Base Camp that the most highest mountain in the world.

Acute Mountain Sickness in Tibet – Fly to Tibet

Due to the lack of oxygen of plateau, our body will probably suffer Acute Mountain Sickness whatever we choose to enter to Tibet by air or train. The point is incidence of Acute Mountain Sickness is related to how long we keep anoxic in Tibet Plateau. If you even feel exhausted, you are easier to suffer Acute Mountain Sickness than others.

It will take less time of flying to Tibet and the oxygen is enough to people. The air pressure insides the plane is about 700m which is equally to Chengdu and Beijing.

But when people arrive in Lhasa, their body will be totally exposed in Tibet plateau which probably makes them feel Acute Mountain Sickness.

Acute Mountain Sickness in Tibet – Take the Train into Tibet

The train is better than car to enter to Tibet. As of now the oxygen offering and other facilities are good in the railroad car as well as the enough and large space.

If the railroad car is like the air cabin, train will be a better choice than air, as people will acclimatize the pressure gradually.

Acute Mountain Sickness in Tibet – 3000m Altitude

Acute Mountain Sickness is lack of oxygen but high pressure. It is usually occurred above 3000m mountains. When people ascend to the plateau or high mountains above 3000m, you will feel absence of oxygen and breathe accelerating. At the same time, you will feel stomach dyspepsia.

In addition, the nervous system will be in a state of exciting at first and then become upset. The worse-case is becoming shock.