Home remedies · Everyday life & travel
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Above 2500 metres raise the sleeping altitude by at most 300 to 500 metres per night, climb higher by day and sleep lower. Drink plenty, no big effort on the first day, no alcohol.
The body needs time to cope with less oxygen. What counts is not how high you went by day, but where you sleep.
Fitness does not protect against it — well-trained people get it too. And having tolerated it once is no guarantee for the next time.
Headache with nausea at altitude means: climb no higher. With breathlessness at rest, confusion or an unsteady gait, descend at once.
Have it assessed: heat with confusion, dry hot skin or clouded consciousness — that is more than exhaustion. A one-sided swollen leg after a long journey. And anything new that does not go away within a few days.