Diagnoses of Acute Mountain Sickness

When people take some extreme sports outside such as skiing, climbing high mountains, visit Qinghai – Tibet Plateau, and hiking, they will probably suffer Acute Mountain Sickness, which is actually dangerous sometimes.

Therefore more and more people starts to pay attention to Acute Mountain Sickness, find out what the Acute Mountain Sickness is, how to prevent Acute Mountain Sickness and the treatments of it.

For another, we'd better understand the diagnoses of Acute Mountain Sickness to decide the next steps.

Acute Mountain Sickness Diagnoses

Acute Mountain Sickness is usually occurred on the mountains over 3000m. 75% people will suffer the slight signs and symptoms of Acute Mountain Sickness such as bad headache, anorexia, nausea and vomiting, fatigue, weakness, dizziness, lightheadness and difficult sleeping. And now we have to correctly diagnose the signs and symptoms of Acute Mountain Sickness well, or it will be mistaken for endemic or cold.

The signs and symptoms will be changed depend on the ascend speed, height and personal physical factor. People who suffer the Acute Mountain Sickness should be transferred down to the mountain immediately. Otherwise the severe Acute Mountain Sickness such as pulmonary edema and cerebral edema will probably lead people to death.

Emergency Treatment of Acute Mountain Sickness

1.Stay put to have a rest: it is better for people to acclimatize the plateau environment with 24-48 hours without any waste of present height. But the signs and symptoms could also be change to severe situation.

2.Climb down immediately: people will recover themselves in just few hours but we have to start again from the foot. And it will be a little difficult if we suffer the bad weather.