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altitude prep
Any drugs (general purchase or prescription) that will help prevent
altitude sickness/headache? Planning a trip from 500 ft to 6000-8000 ft levels. gr |
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gr wrote: Any drugs (general purchase or prescription) that will help prevent altitude sickness/headache? Planning a trip from 500 ft to 6000-8000 ft levels. gr lots of water, & ibuprofen if you get a headache. i and my housemates (aka skiboybob and sknyski) do this pretty much every weekend from the bay area to truckee & nobody has mentioned symptoms...i think 6-8k is low enough that you won't notice much. last yr i had some insomnia, but that has gone away & i'm not sure it was alt-related. there was a useful article in one of the farwestnordic newsletters last year, at http://www.farwestnordic.org/newslet...cnews_2005.pdf . I think there was a post on rsn last year where someone mentioned a prescription drug for altitude...you might search w google groups. just remember you need more rest, water & carbohydrates than normal, adjust hr zones down ~8-12 beats & don't knock yourself out the first day & you should be fine. imho. df |
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There was a pretty well received study form the University of Colorado
a year or two ago praising the effects of ginko baloba in fighting altitude sickness. You might want to google it. Although this interesting site was skeptical. http://www.high-altitude-medicine.com/ Regards, Chris Crawford Denver |
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Yup, ditto, water, water, water.
After spending last weekend at 8,700 ft, I'm beginning to think that the effects of altitude aren't linear - i.e. there's some point up to which you can handle it (coming from sea level) but it gets harder at a much faster rate after that. I was at 7,000 ft today and felt like I was at sea level after the misery of ~9k. 6k-8k sounds like our neck of the woods, or maybe Utah.... bt |
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I don't know if it's Pracetam, but there's a drug banned for
athletes but commonly used by climbers that I thought started with A..., but goes under the name Diazepan or something like that. It's very effective, but will have you taking a split breaks more often. Maybe Chris knows. Gene "infiniski" wrote: gr wrote: Any drugs (general purchase or prescription) that will help prevent altitude sickness/headache? Planning a trip from 500 ft to 6000-8000 ft levels. gr Piracetam. Cheap. Safe. Available on-line as a supplement now, because it's paten expired. it's very popular in europe as a mild brain stimulant. from Smart Drugs by Dean, Morgenthaler, Fowkes. 1993 "the ability of piracetam to reduce metabolic stress under low-oxygen conditions was investigated by schaffler and klausnitzer in 1988. the researchers induced hypoxia (low oxygen levels) in healthy young men (early 20's to early 30's) by reducing the oxygen content the laboratory air that they breathed by about half (10.5% instead of 20% oxygen). this resembled the oxygen supply at an altitude of 5300 meters. they investigated the degree of cognitive impairment and the ability of piracetam single-doses (1600 to 2400mg) to prevent this impairment was measured. half of the group were given placebo." "various tests of reaction time were performed, and n all cases, the piracetam group performed better. best results were obtained at the higher doses. The increased breathing rate that is usually seen under low oxygen conditions was significantly reduced by a single-dose of piracetam. "oxygen utilization in the brain appears to be significantly enhanced", the article states. the book also mentions "increased glucose metabolism stimulation, increased atp turnover," schaffler K and Klausnitzer W: randomized placebo-controlled doubler-blind cross-over study on antihypoxidotic effects of piracetam using psychophysiological measures in healthy volunteers. arzneim-forsch 1988 (German medical journal) The book includes a detailed graph from the journal article. It looks promising. side effects: "adverse effects are extremely rare. piracetam has no known toxicity or contraindications." this website is good: http://www.ceri.com/noot.htm |
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