Q. Altitude sickness occurs at high Mountains. This sickness have symptoms like
A) Nausea
B) Fatigue
C) Heart palpitations
D) All of these
Explanation
Nausea, fatigue, heart palpitations is due to unavailability of proper oxygen in the body. At high mountain the atmospheric pressure is low. So, $O_{2}$ is not easily available for Respiration. So for improve efficiency of respiration is increased by increasing RBC increasing the binding efficiency of haemoglobin
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