You are more likely to encounter altitude sickness when you are travelling at the height of 2500 or more. Altitude sickness arises when your body ascended too fast without allowing it to accomodate for lower oxygen level. The usual symptoms are headache, nauseous, irregular breathing and it may also lead to a more server condition such as difficulities in breathing, unusal behaviour, unsteadiness or even coma.
Inorder to avoid altitude sickness, it is best to ascend slowly, rest take plenty of fluids, avoid alcohol, eat light meals and do not smoke.
Dehydration
It is important to maintain an adequate fluid intake. Ensure that you always have enough water on hand.
Ear Pain
Changes in air pressure during ascending and desending often disturb the pressure between the middke and outer ear. This situation is called "Ear Popping". To relieve the pressure,chew, yawn, suck some sweets, swallow your saliva or just pinch your nose and breathe sharply through it.
Jet Lag
This is due to the readjustment that your body has to make after you travelled across a time zone. See our article section to beat jet lag.
Traveller Diarrhoea
This is a common illness that bugs a traveller. Symptons are usually caused by unaccustomed food and drink, chnage in environment, change in the normal bacteria flora in the bowels and sometimes vira infection. The general rule to prevent this illness is to "boil it", "cook it", "peel it" or "forget it"
Motion Sickness
A person suffers from motion sickness when the brains receives too many and mixed movement signals from the eyes and the organs of balance in the ears. Symptoms includes dizziness, profuse cold sweat, pallor, headache, nausea and lost of appetite.
You can prevent motion sickness by taking relevant medication like Dramamine Tablet, about 30min before departure time only if you are not driving. Also try to eat lightlyavoid alcohol, look forward or at a distant stationary object throughout the trip, sleep and avoid reading, stress and smoking.
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