| Problems
at High Altitude |
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| • | Humans
can adapt to altitudes of 3-4 km and |
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| remain
healthy indefinitely |
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| • | Acute
mountain sickness- initial response to rapid |
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| ascent
to high elevation |
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| – | Poor
sleep; headaches; nausea; vomiting; apathetic; |
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| irritable;
little appetite |
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| • | Chronic
mountain sickness- develops in people |
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| who
have lived at high elevation for years; lose |
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| adaptation
to hypoxia |
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| • | Pulmonary
Oedema |
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| – | Accumulation
of fluids in the lungs interrupts transfer |
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| of
oxygen from air to blood |
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