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Wilderness Medicine: Encyclopedia of Medicine |
 | | Aspirin or acetaminophen may be taken, while the drug acetazolamide (Diamox) can relieve symptoms of mild acute mountain sickness (AMS). |
| | Other related conditions, which can cause death, are high altitude cerebral edema (HACE), which causes fluid accumulation on the brain, and high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE), which causes fluid in the lungs. |
| | The main treatment for acute mountain sickness is to rapidly descend to lower altitudes. |
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