My boss sent me on a business trip to Shigatse, Tibet for a week. Do I need to buy plateau travel insurance?

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Hello! Although the scenery on the plateau is beautiful, travelers are prone to altitude sickness due to natural reasons such as low oxygen. Plateau travel insurance mainly covers the insured's acute mountain sickness during travel on the plateau. Therefore, in order to protect my health during the journey, my boss sent me on a business trip to Shigatse, Tibet for a week. Do I need to buy plateau travel insurance? You should purchase appropriate plateau travel insurance to protect your own safety.

What should you pay attention to when traveling to plateau areas for a week?

1. Drink more water: Due to the low air humidity in the plateau, the human body is prone to dehydration, and the increase in hemoglobin leads to an increase in blood viscosity, which can easily form thrombus and cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents. Therefore, keep drinking small amounts of water.

2. Quit smoking: The affinity between carbon monoxide produced by cigarettes and hemoglobin is 250 to 300 times that of oxygen. Smoking a lot will significantly aggravate altitude sickness.

3. Learn the correct breathing method: Exercise tests have proven that abdominal breathing is more regular and rhythmic than chest breathing. When walking or climbing, tourists can place their hands on their hips to keep their arms and collarbones , shoulder blades and trunk muscles above the waist to assist breathing to increase the activity of the respiratory system.

4. When you first arrive at the plateau, you should avoid strenuous activities and emotional excitement, and avoid hot baths to avoid accelerating body metabolism and aggravating hypoxia, leading to pulmonary edema. Adhere to the dietary principles of high sugar, high plant protein and low fat.

5. People under 16 years old and over 60 years old, people with anemia, diabetes, serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and chronic lung diseases, patients with mental illness and pregnant women are not suitable to travel to the plateau.