How to Prevent High Altitude Sickness in Tibet Tour

How to Prevent High Altitude Sickness in Tibet Tour – Preparation

If you have never come into high plateau, you are suggested to do strict physical examination before starting your Tibet tour. If there are diseases about heart, lung, brain, liver, kidney, severe anemia or hypertension, please do not start your Tibet tour blindly. If you just have some common ailment, you must take some necessary precaution methods, such as taking oxygen with you and so on.

How to Prevent High Altitude Sickness in Tibet Tour – After Reaching Tibet

After reaching plateau, almost everyone will appear different degree chest distress, short breath and some other oxygen deficiency symptoms. The serious will appear headache, muscle ache, insomnia and some other symptoms. But these do not prove that you can not adapt to high plateau. These symptoms are very common. If you can correctly protect yourself, these symptoms will become better or disappear in one or three days. But you should not do what you want after these symptoms alleviated. You should behave yourself so that you can get better.

People often use oxygen to alleviate the unease of high altitude sickness. Of course, oxygen inhalation can temporarily relieve chest distress, short breath, dyspnoea and some other symptoms. But these symptoms will appear again once you stop inhaling oxygen, which will delay the time of adapting to high plateau. So, if the symptoms of high altitude sickness are not very serious, you are not suggested to inhale oxygen, which can help you adapt to high plateau quickly.

When you just reach high plateau, you should not eat too much which will increase the burden of your digestive organs. You are also suggested not to smoke or drink alcohol.

You are advised to eat more vegetables, fruits and some other foods with rich vitamin; drink enough water.

When you just reach high plateau, please do not walk fast, run, or do physical labor. It will be better if you could spend half a day to take a rest. At the first night after reaching high plateau, you should take a good rest, ensure adequate sleep. Then, you should keep warm to avoid cold, which is the main cause of acute Pulmonary Edema in plateau.

There are many important points about the arrangement of your Tibet tour itinerary. You are suggested to go to the lower place first, and then go to higher place.