Introduction of High Altitude Sickness

Visitors who come into high plateau for the first time may appear high altitude sickness. It is very common. For light symptoms of high altitude sickness, visitors can adapt themselves to adapt to the high plateau condition. The high altitude sickness includes acute high altitude sickness and chronic high altitude sickness. Visitors can judge which kind of high altitude sickness they belong to based on the symptoms.

Introduction of High Altitude Sickness – Acute High Altitude Sickness

The body will appear a series of hypoxia symptoms when come into high altitude area from plain area, or come into higher places from high plateau, that is acute high altitude sickness. The symptoms of acute high altitude sickness includes dizzy, headache, palpitation, short of breath, inappetence, languor, asthenia, nausea, abdominal distension, diarrhea, chest pain, insomnia, giddiness, hypersomnia, numbness, tic and so on. The physical sign performance as that the heart beating rate increase, breath becomes deeper, blood pressure slightly uncommon, face and four limbs appear edema, lips become purple and so on.

Introduction of High Altitude Sickness – Chronic High Altitude Sickness

The chronic high altitude sickness is that some people can not adapt to the high altitude condition after a long adaptive process, and form a kind of high plateau dysfunction. It appears a series of clinical symptoms. Chronic high altitude sickness also named "body dysfunction". It is generally acknowledged that if there are parts of or all symptoms of high altitude sickness after coming into high plateau for three months, which can be regarded as chronic high altitude sickness.

The clinical manifestation of chronic high altitude sickness is various. The symptom of chronic high altitude sickness can be a part of, most parts of or all of the symptoms of acute high altitude sickness. These symptoms may appear sometimes, or disappear sometimes. In general, these symptoms of chronic high altitude sickness will disappear after coming back to lower altitude area, which has many similar points with the clinical manifestation of acute high altitude sickness.