 Poster: A snowHead
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I know someone who gets ill often when at altitude even if the resort is at 1000m.
Basically anytime they eat, they get ill gor a good hour afterwards, sometimes it's fine, next time not.
Any cures? It's not proper altitude sickness like I imagine you'd get hiking in South America or something but pretty bad if all you want to do is tear up the mountain all day...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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beach holiday?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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useful bunch 
seriously...any altitude pills or stuff like that?
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GordonFreeman, my wife suffers pretty badly from altitude sickness. The last trip she she did with me to VT, I ended up taking her down the valley just for a break. The best cure we found was for her to drink loads of fluids (water) and very little alcohol. It gets less accute as your body gets used to the altitude.
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GordonFreeman, I think kiwi1 has hit it - if there is a problem, time helps cure it - trouble is, days of your holiday go. 
I used to have trouble sleeping in resort - I've been told that is a mild form of altitude sickness, and I now have sleeping pills prescribed - so drugs helped me. But feeling ill is another matter - maybe the sH medics will comment.
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I have used a drug called Diamox when climbing at high altitude. Its a prescription drug developed for the treatment of glaucoma and some gps may not have heard of its use for altitude sickness. Its a difficult call as masking symptoms using drugs can have disastrous consequences. Also the altitudes experienced in the Alps should not require it and certainly not 1000m. Poor acclimatisation is often caused by impaired liver function your friend might want to talk to a doctor.
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Originally they had a bout of it in some high ranges whilst trekking say at 4000m and it seems to come back when in the Alps at much lower altitudes now.
Seems slightly strange since I always thought it took days to get altitude sickness?
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Oh...and it's only eating that causes it. No food, they feel fine.
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Lower resorts?
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Seems slightly strange since I always thought it took days to get altitude sickness?
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Not "days", usually a day (read: more than a few hours).
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Oh...and it's only eating that causes it. No food, they feel fine.
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Eat less? (Seriously...)
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I've never heard of altitude sickness at 1000m. Nor have I heard of AS that only comes after mealtimes (til now that is!).
I do often get "altitude sickness" after a jug of red wine and several beers however. So def lay off the alcohol! 
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You know it makes sense.
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GordonFreeman, drink more water.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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What about doing the trip by car, taking extra time on the outbound journey and staying 2-3 nights somewhere nice on the way, thus allowing time to acclimatise?
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Poster: A snowHead
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What about doing the trip by car, taking extra time on the outbound journey and staying 2-3 nights somewhere nice on the way, thus allowing time to acclimatise?
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That might not help, as the journey is mostly at a low altitude. Going to most ski resorts, you only start climbing towards the end of the journey. - you'd need to spend several days, creeping up the valley. It sounds like a question for a physician - as others have said, it is very unusual to have altitude sickness at 1000m and the symptoms don't sound typical. I would have thought that anyone who was severely affected at 1000m would also have problems with big/sudden atmospheric changes at sea level or maybe in planes.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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why do you say this is altitude sickness?
as others have posted they should get the same effects during low pressure at sea level- sounds like a load of tosh
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Medically altitude sicknss doesn't occur until one is really above 8000 feet (about 2400m) so I'm not sure what the posters above are suffering from. Is it possible to get AS psychosomatically ? I suppose so. Maybe it's the dry air. Certainly ensure you drink plenty of water and reduce caffeine and alcohol intake but I'm very doubtful as to whether this is what you think it is. I certainly wouldn't entertain using Diamox casually as this does have side effects. I've used it myself above 7000m and it sort of worked and I know other people that have used it above 6000m with success but one issue with it is that it's a diuretic (makes you lose water through peeing). There are also a variety of other side effects such as drowsiness and fatigue, paraesthesia especially in the extremeties, dizziness.
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Is it possible to get sickness while above 2400m, eating, having a beer or so, and then moving down to 1000m?
Seems strange. They it's the same feeling as when above 4000m on a mountain in S.America.
Suppose it could just be a s simple as beer, local water supply, etc.
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