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A DECALOGUE to PREVENT SOROCHE, the ANDEAN ALTITUDE SICKNESS

Jan 29 2017

01. Progressive approach to high altitude, with regular stops of adaptation, particularly sleeping at intermediate elevations.

02. Arriving by air from sea level to high altitude, one must avoid, since the beginning of the journey, to take heavy and/or abundant meals, carbonated drinks, Coca Cola, coffee, cigarettes; it’s advisable to drink one or two cups of infusion of Coca, the mate de Coca, very hot and concentrated, with a few drops of lemon juice; It’s good to eat some candies or toffees with Coca, when available.

03. Arriving to the altitude the first day, one must rest and sleep as much as possible.

Jan 29 2017

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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A DECALOGUE to PREVENT SOROCHE, the ANDEAN ALTITUDE SICKNESS

COCA in SOROCHE, the ANDEAN ALTITUDE SICKNESS