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The Pulmonary Edema in height is a dangerous buildup of fluid in the lungs that prevents air cavities are open and filled with fresh air with each breath. When this happens, the sufferer experiences a progressive lack of oxygen which in turn worsens the fluid buildup in the lungs.Thus, the Pulmonary Edema in height can be fatal within hours.

There is so much less oxygen in the high mountains it is not surprising that travel at high altitudes causes discomfort, but still do not fully understand how this lack of oxygen leads to altitude sickness. Most people are well up to 2500m altitude, barometric pressure equivalent to that to which are pressurized aircraft cabins.However, even at 1500m above sea level you can notice a lack of above normal breathing during exercise, as well as reduced night vision. Above 2500m, the symptoms of altitude sickness are more noticeable.

Pulmonary Edema develops in height after 2 or 3 days at altitudes above 2500m. The sufferer will experience difficulty breathing compared with those around you, especially during exercise. Many have symptoms of acute mountain sickness. They often have cough and this can produce a frothy sputum white or pink. Breathlessness increase and soon will lack even at rest. The heart may beat faster, lips may turn blue and the temperature can be raised. It is easy to confuse the symptoms of Pulmonary Edema in height with a chest infection, but should be suspected altitude pulmonary edema in height and the affected person must be evacuated to a lower altitude.

Unfortunately, at present it is impossible to predict who will suffer Pulmonary Edema in height. This is one reason why we have created the database. Those who have suffered Pulmonary Edema in height are much more likely to suffer again before. Therefore, there must be some factor that puts certain individuals in a higher risk group.However, as with acute mountain sickness, some of these risk factors are known. A quick ascent and altitude reached Pulmonary Edema make Altura more likely.

It is believed that vigorous exercise is one of those factors and cases that are known suggest that people with chest infections or symptoms prior to ascension common cold, may also be at increased risk.

Despite years of painstaking research, still very little is known of the exact causes of Pulmonary Edema in height. It has been observed that pockets of air from the lungs fill with fluid preventing oxygen from reaching the blood and triggering a series of events that can kill people by Pulmonary Edema in height, as in many biological processes, many factors They are playing a role in the disease and there is sufficient evidence to support several theories about how the liquid reaches there.

Normally, oxygen enters the blood and lungs send it to the body, every time you breathe, it is inserted into the tiny air pockets that are at the end of the airways of your lungs, while the heart blood is taken to close these bags thin walls so that oxygen can get into your blood while products to be eliminated out, this oxygen-rich blood returns to the heart and is transported to the body, whether by accident , inhale a small object in your lungs, it gets caught in one of those airways, then come little oxygen to the air bags located behind the object to avoid this area of ​​the lung sends oxygen-poor blood to the heart (and thus the rest of the body), blood vessels in the area are closed or contract, this is usually very good and an example of how the body protects itself.

At high altitude, however, this same process causes Pulmonary Edema in height, because the whole lung lacks oxygen, the entire lung reacts the same way - the blood vessels constrict around the area and not only in small areas, the blood of these vessels is concentrated and the pressure rises causing the liquid blood to pass airbags. Given the shortage of oxygen in the blood are formed very dangerous and reactive substances that can directly damage the existing special membrane between air and blood in the lungs causing further leakage of fluid and worsening pulmonary edema in height.