Acute Altitude Sickness

Acute altitude sickness is a series of oxygen deficit symptoms appeared in the first period of arriving on the plateau with an altitude of about 3000 meters. Generally, the acute altitude sickness would attack tourists from the plain environment for the suddenly elevation change. Before enter into Tibet, tourists should handle some knowledge about how to get protected from the altitude sickness so as to prevent the acute altitude sickness.

How to Get Protected from the Altitude Sickness – Causes of Acute Altitude Sickness

The organism oxygen deficit caused by the low oxygen content in the atmosphere is the main reason of the acute altitude sickness. It is researched that the changing atmosphere pressure on the plateau is another important cause of the acute altitude sickness. Oxygen deficit and the suddenly change of the atmosphere pressure would exert certain influence to tourists' nervous system, respiratory system, cardiovascular system and digestive system. Hence, a series of clinical symptoms of acute altitude sickness would appear if you get a poor adaptation to the high altitude.

Besides, the increase of the physical oxygen consumption would also worsen the maladjustment between the supply and need of oxygen. Mental tension and excessive fatigue, infection of the upper respiratory tract and some other factors would induce or worsen the acute altitude sickness. While collection information about how to get protected from the altitude sickness, tourists would find that the acute altitude sickness is a physical irritability reaction to the high altitude. It is a series of clinical symptoms occurred during the adaptation period to the changing environment. Most of the symptoms would disappear with your adaptation to the plateau environment gradually.

How to Get Protected from the Altitude Sickness – Symptoms of Acute Altitude Sickness

The acute altitude sickness has a series of common symptoms: dizziness, headache, nervousness, shortness of breath, anorexia, fatigue, vomit, abdominal distension, diarrhea, choking sensation in chest, dim eyesight, drowsiness, hyperpasmia and so on. All these symptoms would disappear in 2-3 days if you could adapt to the plateau environment well in short time.

Some of the tourists don't know some common knowledge or how to get protected from the altitude sickness might wonder whether all the people come to the plateau would be attacked by the high altitude sickness. Generally, tourists from the plain with lower altitude would get various degrees of symptom of altitude sickness, especially in the first two days. But tourists should not be over worried about the possible altitude sickness.