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Altitude sickness, also known as acute mountain sickness ( AMS), altitude illness, or soroche, is a pathological condition that is caused by acute exposure to low air pressure (usually outdoors at high altitudes). It commonly occurs above 2,400 metres (approximately 8,000 feet). [1] Acute mountain sickness can progress to high altitude pulmonary edema ( HAPE) or high altitude cerebral edema ( HACE). [2]Altitude sickness is caused by reduced partial pressure of oxygen. The percentage of oxygen in air remains essentially constant with altitude at 21 percent, but the air pressure (and therefore the number of oxygen molecules) drops with altitude.[3] Altitude sickness usually does not affect persons traveling in aircraft because modern aircraft passenger compartments are pressurized. A related condition,[citation needed] occurring only after prolonged exposure to high altitude, is chronic mountain sickness, also known as Monge's disease. An unrelated condition, although often confused with altitude sickness, is dehydration, due to the higher rate of water vapor lost from the lungs at higher altitudes.
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1. Complete Information on Acute mountain sickness with Treatment and Prevention
June 19, 2008
Acute mountain sickness is an sickness that can affect mountain climbers, hikers, skiers, or travelers who climb too fast. Acute mountain sickness is actually more common in fit young men because they are more likely to attempt a rapid ascent by racing up the mountain like some indestructible super hero. It usually occurs when people rapidly reach a high altitude. Acute mountain sickness occurs from the combination of reduced air pressure and a lower concentration of oxygen at high altitude. Symptoms can range from mild to life threatening, and can affects the nervous system, lungs, muscles, a... (read more)
Author: Juliet Cohen
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2. Herbal Medicines For Blood Problems
January 06, 2008
Problems with the blood, as opposed to the supply or circulation of blood, are normally the result of something wrong in the chemical composition of the blood so that either it does not flow as it should (it may clot too quickly or not fast enough) or it does not have the right amount of chemicals to nourish and protect the body or itself properly.
Serious blood problems such as hemophilia (an inherited deficiency in which blood will not clot properly, resulting in excessive bleeding), agranulocytosis (which is the result of a white blood cell deficiency), leukemia, polycythemia (high alt... (read more)
Author: Francis Adam
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3. African wildlife safari vacations professional advice for free
July 18, 2007
Mount Kilimanjaro climb and camping safari information.
Kilimanjaro climb also one can call kilimanjaro trek.
Climbing kilimanjaro can be done in all routes, i.e machame, rongai, marangu, shira, lemosho/londrosi e.t.c
Kilimanjaro climb is a volcanic trek, with professional mountain guide. Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro sometimes encounters with difficulty like mountain/altitude sickness. Mountain sickness when climbing mt. Kilimanjaro can be overcame/prevented by some measures. Professional and experienced guide can do guide you climb Mount Kilimanjaro slowly slowly. Kilimanjaro c... (read more)
Author: Andrew Mathias
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4. Traveling frights at heights of Nepal
June 27, 2007
There was this pretty girl in school while I was in the tenth grade. I remember she had big eyes and long black hair. Cheerful and friendly, she was quite popular. Then one day after some couple of years I heard from a friend that she had passed away while on a pilgrimage to Muktinath. She had suffered from altitude sickness. That news came to me as a shock. Not that I knew her that well, it just seemed so impossible. She was young, beautiful and healthy…and she went away just like that. It sounded so peculiar to me that one could die at such a young age and for what seemed to me at that momen... (read more)
Author: Tenzing Lama
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5. 7 Things to Know About Altitude Sickness
August 26, 2005
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You've already know about AA, AAA, ABC, ADT and so on. If you're going to the mountains, you might want to add AMS. It stands for Acute Mountain Sickness or more commonly, Altitude Sickness. You say, why are you bringing up sickness when I'm going on the trip of a lifetime - isn't that just bad karma? Think of it as a vaccination - sort of like a trip into the Amazon jungles. You wouldn't think of going there without, say... thirty or more shots, would you? So if you're going to the high altitudes, why not prevent sickeness!
~What... (read more)
Author: Janet James
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6. Backpacking Trips - Ten Essential Items
June 26, 2005
I've had backpacking trips that included rain, snow, lightning, rockslides, altitude sickness, and twenty-mile days - all in a summer weekend. Wilderness trips can be dangerous, but you can make then less so, by having the following ten essentials in your backpack.
1. Knowledge. What good is a compass if you don't know how to use it? Play with matches if your fire-making skills are shaky. Learn what to do when you see a bear. Read a little, practice a little - knowledge is more likely to save you than gadgets.
2. Map and compass. These are together, because that's the way you need ... (read more)
Author: Steve Gillman
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