Altitude illness

sickness /sick·ness/ (sik´nes) disease.

African sleeping sickness African trypanosomiasis.

air sickness airsickness.

altitude sickness a condition due to difficulty adjusting to lowered oxygen pressure at high altitudes; it may take the form of mountain sickness, high-altitude pulmonary edema, or cerebral edema.

car sickness carsickness.

decompression sickness divers' paralysis; joint pain, respiratory problems, skin lesions, and neurologic signs, due to rapid reduction of air pressure in a person's environment.

green tobacco sickness transient, recurring nicotine poisoning in tobacco harvesters.

high-altitude sickness altitude s.

milk sickness an acute, often fatal disease in humans after they ingest milk, milk products, or flesh of cattle or sheep who have eaten certain toxic plants; human disease is marked by weakness, anorexia, vomiting, and sometimes muscular tremors.

morning sickness nausea of early pregnancy.

motion sickness nausea and malaise due to unaccustomed motion, such as in travel by airplane, automobile, ship, or train.

mountain sickness a type of high altitude sickness with oliguria, dyspnea, blood pressure and pulse rate changes, and neurological disorders.

radiation sickness a condition resulting from exposure to a whole-body dose of over 1 gray of ionizing radiation and characterized by the symptoms of the acute radiation syndrome.

sea sickness seasickness.

serum sickness a hypersensitivity reaction after administration of foreign serum or serum proteins, marked by urticaria, arthralgia, edema, and lymphadenopathy.

sleeping sickness increasing lethargy and drowsiness due to a disease process such as African trypanosomiasis or types of encephalomyelitis.

moun·tain sickness (moun

Altitude sickness brought on by the diminished oxygen pressure at mountain elevations.

mountain sickness.

See altitude sickness.

Mountain Sickness

A syndrome affecting those living for various periods at high altitudes, which is diagnosed if a person has 3+ major symptoms: anorexia, dyspnoea, fatigue, headache, insomnia, which generally responds to dexamethasone. Mountain sickness is divided into acute and chronic forms

altitude sickness [al´tĭ-tūd]

a syndrome caused by exposure to altitude high enough to cause significant hypoxia (lack of oxygen). At high altitudes the atmospheric pressure, and thus arterial oxygen content, are decreased. Called also high-altitude sickness and mountain sickness.

Acute altitude sickness may occur after a few hours' exposure to a high altitude. Mental functions may be affected; there may be lightheadedness and breathlessness; and eventually headache and prostration may occur. Older persons and those with pulmonary or cardiovascular disease are most susceptible. After a few hours or days of acclimation the symptoms will subside.

Chronic altitude sickness (called also Monge's disease and Andes disease) occurs in those living in the high Andes above 15,000 feet. It resembles polycythemia, but is completely relieved if the patient is moved to sea level.

mountain

related in some way to high altitude.

mountain devil

see lambertiaformosa.

mountain disease

see altitude sickness.

mountain gorilla

Gorilla gorilla beringei.

mountain laurel

see kalmia.

mountain lion

see mountain lion.

mountain mahogany

see cercocarpus.

mountain pink

centauriumbeyrichii.

mountain sickness

see altitude sickness.

mountain silvery lupine

lupinusalpestris.

mountain thermopsis

thermopsismontana.

mountain sickness

Acute MS, altitude anoxia, altitude sickness, high altitude cerebral edema, high altitude pulmonary edema Wilderness medicine A syndrome affecting those living for various periods at high altitudes, which is diagnosed if a person has 3+ major symptoms: anorexia, dyspnea, fatigue, headache, insomnia, which respond to dexamethasone; MS is divided into acute and chronic forms. See High-altitude pulmonary edema, Höhendiurese.

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of Washington Travel and Tropical Medicine Service) provide 45 chapters that discuss pre-travel concerns like air carrier issues, immunizations, malaria prevention, water disinfection, and prevention and self treatment of traveler's diarrhea; advice for special travelers relating to altitude illness, diving, children, HIV, chronic medical conditions, immigrants, and expatriates; and fever, diarrhea, skin lesions, sexually transmitted diseases, and worms.

The travel and tropical medicine manual, 4th ed by SciTech Book News

Altitude Illness At altitudes above 2000 metres (common on more advanced trekking holidays), the body has to acclimatise to reduced levels of oxygen.

Staying Healthy on Your Trekking Holiday by Robert Kane / Travel, recreation and leisure community

Additional symptoms that may indicate altitude illness include vertigo, "feeling hung over," thirst, tinnitus (ringing in the ears), nightmares and change in vision with retinal hemorrhage, slowing of speech, excess flatulence, swelling of the hands and feet, and transient global amnesia.

High altitude illness: avoiding the perils of the peaks by Mason, Francene / AMAA Journal

alternative benefit plan

alternative birthing center

alternative complement pathway

alternative delivery system

alternative healing

alternative hypothesis

alternative inheritance

alternative lifestyle

alternative medicine

alternative pathway of complement activation

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