Question

Visiting a place like Manali and Manasarovar gives you an uncomfortable feeling. This is called
1. Motion sickness
2. Syndrome
3. Hydrophobia
4. Altitude sickness

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Altitude sickness

The correct answer is Altitude sickness.

• Altitude sickness:
  • Tourists visiting high altitude areas such as Manali or Mansarovar, experience altitude sickness. Hence, Option 4 is correct.
  • Its symptoms include nausea, fatigue, and heart palpitations.
  • This is because, in the low atmospheric pressure of high altitudes, the body does not get enough oxygen.
  • But, gradually we get acclimatized and stop experiencing altitude sickness.
  • The body compensates for low oxygen availability by increasing red blood cell production, decreasing the binding affinity of hemoglobin, and increasing breathing rate.
  • Thus, the visitors are advised to resume their normal active life involving heavy works only after a few days because for doing heavy tasks our body needs energy and this energy is obtained by the oxidation of glucose in the presence of oxygen which is a limiting factor in higher altitudes.

• Motion sickness	Travel by car, air, or boat can all cause motion sickness. Motion sickness usually goes away when the motion stops.
  Syndrome	A syndrome is a set of medical signs and symptoms which are correlated with each other and often associated with a particular disease or disorder
  Hydrophobia	Rabies, also called hydrophobia or lyssa, acute, ordinarily fatal, viral disease of the central nervous system that is usually spread among domestic dogs and wild carnivorous animals by a bite. All warm-blooded animals, including humans, are susceptible to rabies infection.