Providing assistance with mountain sickness

If, despite the measures taken, any of the participants in the high-altitude trek exhibit symptoms of mountain sickness, it is necessary:

- for headaches, take citramon, pyramidon (no more than 1.5 g per day), analgin (no more than 1 g per single dose and 3 g per day) or their combinations (triad, pentad);

- for nausea and vomiting - aeron, sour fruits or their juices;

- for insomnia - Noxiron, when a person has difficulty falling asleep, or Nembutal, when sleep is not deep enough.

When using medications at high altitudes, special care should be taken. First of all, this applies to biologically active substances (phenamine, phenatine, pervitin) that stimulate the activity of nerve cells. It should be remembered that these substances create only a short-term effect. Therefore, it is better to use them only when absolutely necessary, and even then during the descent, when the duration of the upcoming movement is not long. An overdose of these drugs leads to exhaustion of the nervous system and a sharp decrease in performance. An overdose of these drugs is especially dangerous in conditions of prolonged oxygen deficiency.

. If the group has decided to urgently descend a sick participant, then during the descent it is necessary not only to systematically monitor the patient’s condition, but also to regularly give injections of antibiotics and drugs that stimulate human cardiac and respiratory activity (lobelia, cardamine, corazol or norepinephrine).