Personal experience of altitude sickness

What I fear most for so many years is altitude sickness. Many people on the Internet say that altitude sickness will kill people. Repeated access to relevant information, combined with the experience of acquaintances and friends around me, found that it is not as terrible as online rumors.

First of all, I chose to travel by plane, and later I found it was the wisest choice. Although I will lose the beauty of the Qinghai-Tibet line, I am completely in a normal state.

Later, I heard from the group members in Lhasa that 70% people had abnormal reactions when they took the train. They all have vomiting and diarrhea, headaches and purple lips. Although the train is oxygenated, I think it is mainly because of the closed environment. Generally, it takes two to three days for train passengers to get used to it after arriving in Lhasa. We arrived at noon, so we arranged a rest in the afternoon to adapt. We felt it was a pity to waste time, so we went to the museum ourselves.

When I arrived at the museum, I saw a woman squatting on the ground, and her companion went to buy oxygen. I began to believe in "altitude sickness" and even felt a little dizzy. I couldn't get a taxi when I went back. Later, I learned that Tibetan taxi drivers are really not treacherous. They only take one person for a ride, because one person can take four at a time and earn forty dollars!

I have to go back by bus. On the bus, I met an elderly self-help tour in Changshu, Jiangsu. The youngest of them is 60 years old and the oldest is 75 years old. (Because tour groups generally don't accept people over 70 years old, except those who are willing to sign a "death agreement". They said they planned to stay in Tibet for 20 days, and even went to the Everest base camp in Ali and Shigatse, the highest altitude. I really admire them. It's amazing!

Two children beat chicken blood all the way, shouting and jumping. My daughter also asked me all the way, "Why don't I have altitude sickness?" I really want to see what altitude sickness looks like. "The two guys mixed in the middle of the group, men, women and children, making fun of the tour guide every day, and playing pranks with the youth in the group, including the older ones, which added a lot of fun to their spare time and got a lot of free food along the way.

I forgot what night I stayed in Lhasa. My nose was a little uncomfortable in the middle of the night, so I blew it. Suddenly I feel sticky on my hands. When I turned on the light, I saw that it was full of blood. I quickly applied it with a cold towel and drank another glass of water. The next day, my daughter had a nosebleed all night and finally began to converge. Also began to drink more water.

When we arrived at Xueshankou, Milla, the tour guide said that we would only be given 15 minutes to enjoy the scenery, because two photographers of a group he took last time broke the rules. It should have been 15 minutes, but two people went to take pictures and the mobile phone couldn't get through. The others in the car waited for 40 minutes, and more than half of them began to die, with purple lips.

When we got off the bus, for the first time, we felt that the snow-capped mountains were nearby and the blue sky seemed within reach. We jumped a few times excitedly and got on the bus. I suddenly felt dizzy. My friend said that my lips were a little purple and my face was a little pale. My daughter also said that she was dizzy. When I took out the mirror, it was really obvious, so I immediately ate two tablets of plateau health, an apple and some water, and returned to normal in a few minutes.

Then it seems to have been fine. Anyway, drink more water and eat more fruits. The mentality is naturally good. What impressed me the most was Namco, the highest lake in the world.

How beautiful!

It's so wide. They went straight to the lake. We walked by the lake. Later, when we were about to walk to the lake, I found that I couldn't walk any further. First, take ten steps to have a rest, and then take five steps to have a rest. It's a little difficult to breathe. I'm still shivering in a down jacket. My daughter also said no, the smell of yak dung made me sick.

I calculated that at this rate, even if we get to the lake, I'm afraid we can't walk back today. I'd better not go! It's a pity that I didn't try the water in the holy lake, and later I asked my group members for some close-up pictures. .

However, I'm really not sure about altitude sickness. It's not that the reaction is small when you are in good health. In our group, a boy of 1.8 meters is in Grade Two, and his reaction is a little intense. And we flew into Tibet with little response.

But a friend of mine said that her husband flew into Tibet and went to the hospital for more than a week as soon as he got off the plane. Of course, all the mainland tourists you see in Tibet are unresponsive or unresponsive, because in serious cases, they will go straight home or go directly to the hospital.

According to the tour guide, the last batch of tourists from Beijing went straight home before entering Tibet by train, because the reaction was too strong. When he visited the Potala Palace in the evening, he met a tourist from Liaoning. He took a train from Liaoning to Lhasa, and has rested in the hotel for three days, but he still can't adapt, and his reaction is still fierce. So he endured the uncomfortable light and swam to the Potala Palace, ready to go home after swimming.

So, go if you want! Nothing! All the 75-year-olds went, and so did the 4-year-olds. If you are unfortunately "dead", it is the Buddha who missed you in heaven.