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- From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: How does the body adjust to high altitude?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 13:03:51 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- This last ski vacation, for the first time in my life, I
- suffered some altitude sickness. My first day on the slopes
- ended after an hour with massive fatigue and a sense of
- breathlessness. The second day I felt fine, even after
- a whole day of skiing. Clearly, my body did something in
- those 24 hours to adjust to the high altitude.
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- What did it do?
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- Russell
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