{"id":8214,"date":"2017-04-24T09:16:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T07:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/?p=8214"},"modified":"2017-04-24T09:16:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T07:16:33","slug":"mountain-sickness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/mountain-sickness\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain sickness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Mountain sickness can affect people ascending to altitudes higher than 2500 m. In most cases it causes mild symptoms \u2013 headache, dizziness, nausea, shortness of breath \u2013 which improve with rest and the time spent for reaching the altitude. However, in some cases mountain sickness can lead to serious life-threatening symptoms \u2013 cerebral oedema and pulmonary oedema.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">If the symptoms are severe, not improving after 24 hours or getting worse, one must descend to a lower altitude. In cases of brain oedema or pulmonary oedema, descent to a lower altitude is urgently needed. Treatment with oxygen or acetazolamide or dexamethasone can relieve the symptoms and make descending easier. Use of a portable hyperbaric chamber can temporarily simulate descent in cases when immediate descent to lower altitudes is impossible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain sickness can affect people ascending to altitudes higher than 2500 m. In most cases it causes mild symptoms \u2013 headache, dizziness, nausea, shortness of breath \u2013 which improve with rest and the time spent for reaching the altitude. However, in some cases mountain sickness can lead to serious life-threatening symptoms \u2013 cerebral oedema and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-8214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8215,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions\/8215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}