It is most necessary and compulsion to know about the altitude sickness while doing trekking or mountaineering in the Himalayas or simply traveling in the high altitude.

The basic symptoms of altitude sickness are loosing appetite, headache, nausea, and shortness of breath, tiredness and dizziness.
The main cause of the altitude sickness is rapid ascending, dehydration, less oxygen, hypothermia and low pressure. There are three types of altitude sickness:

1 Acute mountain sickness (AMS)
when you get this sickness then you start to feel like hangover, headache, tiredness, nausea, loose of appetite, dizziness and sleep disturbance.

2 High altitude pulmonary edema
    (HAPE water in the lung)
The symptoms are breathless, coughing, unusual tired while walking, high pulse rate, blueness of face, lip, finger nails.

3 High altitude cerebral edema
    (HACE, Water in the head)
The symptoms are terrible headache, vomiting, walk like a drunk, mental confusion, and doesn't want to get bother by other people.
The basic prevention from the altitude is never ascent in hurry, drink at least 3 liters of water in a day, use enough warm cloth, don’t go more than 300- 400m per day, take acclimatization day when ever you need, don’t use alcohol during heading up, use much more soup (most preferable is garlic). If you get the problems then don’t try to head up until you feel complete better if it goes worse then get down immediately. The main prevention from mountain sickness is descending to lower.

Our staff team is fully trained to encounter the possible altitude sickness and equipped with necessary stuff such as medicine, oxygen, gemo bag etc.