Question

During the school trip to 'Rohtang Pass', one of your classmates suddenly developed 'altitude sickness'. But, she recovered after sometime. 

(a) Mention one symptom to diagnose the sickness. 

(b) What caused the sickness ? 

(c) How could she recover by her self after sometime?

Answer 1

(a) The symptom of altitude sickness include difficulty in breathing, nausea, fatig , heat palpitations. 

(b) The sickness was caused because of lack of oxygen and comparatively low RBC count. 

(c) She got acclimatised and stopped experiencing altitude sickness because her body compensated low oxygen availability by increasing the red blood cell production.