High altitude reaction chest tightness and shortness of breath is likely to be caused by lack of oxygen, usually accompanied by palpitations, headache, dizziness and other symptoms. The main ways to alleviate the problem are to inhale oxygen, rest, and return to a lower altitude area.
1. Oxygen intake: For people who are conscious and have a low demand for oxygen flow, nasal cannula oxygen intake can be used to alleviate the problem, and if the demand for oxygen is high, mask oxygen intake can be used. For people with fuzzy consciousness, the demand for oxygen flow is relatively high, and they should choose hyperbaric chamber and transfer to a place with low altitude in time to avoid causing brain damage.
2. Rest: Once the plateau reaction occurs, you should rest in bed in time to avoid the oxygen consumption due to continuous movement, which makes the symptoms of plateau reaction more serious.
3. Return to low altitude area: after the above methods still can not be relieved, and even the symptoms of aggravation of the performance, then must be transferred to a lower altitude area for treatment in a timely manner. If you are in the state of oxygen deficiency for a long time, it will cause plateau cerebral edema, plateau pulmonary edema and other diseases.
When plateau reaction occurs, you need to actively go to the emergency department of the hospital and follow the doctor’s instructions for reasonable treatment.