The altitude sickness is a hypoxic syndrome, due to oxygen decrease, resulting in inadequate blood’s oxygenation in the human body, in subjects reaching high levels of altitude.
Not all individuals exposed to high altitude show the corresponding clinical symptoms; with certainty we only know that the majority of symptomatic cases occur during the first few days at altitude: the only safe treatment is the descent to a lower altitude.
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On the waves of memory a prophetical story I heard sometimes in the Andes: here it goes.
“An elderly Andean priest, Kyana Chuyma, while the Spanish invaders were approaching, fled with the treasure of the Temple of Taytacha Inti, the Father Sun, and threw it into the sacred Lake Titijaja, on the Peruvian-Bolivian border, between the islands of the Sun and the Moon, to put it safe before being captured and subjected to ill-treatment and torture that left him half dead.
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