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When walking safaris, mountain climbing or walking around the camp, it is advisable to be aware of these guidelines on health and safety in the African Bush. Height related diseases: These diseases can kill you, and every year tourists die in height-related diseases. Highlands are colder even in Africa, there is less oxygen, and walking slowly is important, especially for hikes or rising over the 1500 to 3000 meters above sea level. You should be breathing easily with no painting and no particular physical tour. Regularly drink water and eat light meals with a lot of carbohydrates. It is important to keep warm. Hypothermia or exposure: it is a life-threatening condition, the reduction of body temperature and can result in temperatures as high as 10 C [50 F]. Usually the cold wet clothes or just badly dressed conditions. The signs (symptoms), clumsiness, stumbling, apathy, drowsiness, confusion, disorientation and eventually unconsciousness. The treatment is immediately in warm dry environments with warm sleeping bag is ideal for patients with one or even two people inside the sleeping bag with the patient. Warm energy rich drinks helps to relax as soon as possible to return to the camp. Acute mountain sickness: It affects many people over 2.050 meters [or 10.000 ft] Signs and symptoms include nausea, fatigue, headache, malaise, loss of appetite, restless sleep or not. The treatment is still slow in the camp, drinking water, and relax your body. It is important to gradually adjust the height. In case of severe headache, loss of coordination, difficulty in breathing to evacuate immediately to a doctor. This condition kills tourists every year in Tanzania! Hiking to the hot and sunny weather often causes signs or symptoms of heat exhaustion include fatigue / weakness, headache, dizziness, thirst, nausea / vomiting, weakness, high body temperature. The treatment is to establish a uniform shade, remove clothing to cool the patient's body soak in cold water, re-hydrate patient and monitor body temperature Heat stroke is more serious, with signs and (or) symptoms, delirium, coma, rapid pulse, rapid breathing, skin hot and dry, the body temperature above 40C [104 F]. Treat as overheating, but this condition can be fatal, so seek medical help quickly - evacuate if possible. Wildlife, try to avoid the interaction, usually try to avoid the wildlife you. Buffalo and elephants can attack if provoked or surprised. When you hike in the forest or dense bush often Draw or call if you meet an aggressive animal, armed to keep their manager. Never feed wild animals with Baboona and monkeys are very dangerous and they can force the steel, as they learned to get food from tourists. Weather in Tanzania rainy season from November to May with occasional drier season from January to March, dividing the season into short and long rains. It never rains all the time. Dry season from June to October, the coldest month is July at altitudes reaching temperatures below freezing. If you get lost stay where you are, your manager will seek and find you more quickly if there is a trail - it sometimes happens in fog or dense forest. The day pack should be instant body shelter, warm clothing and water proof jacket, lighter or matches, a mirror or a buzzer alarm, food and drink, first aid, torch and compass. For latest Tanzania News, visit tanzaniainvest.
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