Acute Mountain Sickness

What is the altitude illness?
In average, Three trekkers die per year by altitude illness in Nepal. Nepal has diversity in land. It means Nepal have the land of 60m to 8848metres by the sea level because of this diversity The person who live in the lowerpart can be sick when he goes to the higher part. This is called altitude illness or mountain sickness. Many people, who want to go trekking in Nepal with out idea of altitude illness, they can have problems in the way and sometimes the case will be danger. We can help the trekkers to give advice of acute mountain illness (AMS). Sometimes trekkers can have problems by the smell of the flowers also, which we can find in the Nepal Himalayas.

What we must do to remove AMS?
We can follow the minor rules to wipe out the mountain illness .For example - One trekker sleep the height of 2800 meters and the other day he go to 3200 meters .In this case he doesn't have problem. But some trekkers who sleep about 2000 meters highs one day and on the other day he sleep in the height of 4500 meters .He can get the problems in respiration and other. This is called the mountain sickness. If some trekkers want to remove this problem he must walk and sleep in the difference of about 300 to 500 meters height.

Beside this AMS trekkers can have the problems of Allergy and Diarrhea, to wipe out their diseases we must have careful in every meals which we eat. The first thing is the water, which we use. We can use by boiling water and to put medicines that can purify water .We must put Iodine also in water. The medicine called Tetraglycine Hydroperiodide tablets can be used. These are not find in Nepal now .The Lugols solution can find in Nepal .The first medicine which can find in tablets is a bottle which have 50 tablets. One tablet can purify 1 liter of water. The second medicine can get in liquid. When we put these drops water we must wait about 30 minutes to drink and must put 3-4 drops of solution in one liter of water. The another way to purify water is to use filter. This way is more inconvenient when you are travelling.