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Posted: **Fri Mar 25, 2011 2:44 pm**

Pentagon's Uphill Battle: Afghan Campaign Spurs Military to Seek Remedy for Troops' Altitude Sickness

The $2.5 million research project, funded by the Pentagon, aims to solve a difficult problem for the military. When troops are parachuted into high-altitude battlefields, many come down with acute mountain sickness. Accompanying headaches, nausea, dizziness and fatigue can be so debilitating some troops have trouble standing, much less maneuvering in combat.

Posted: **Fri Mar 25, 2011 3:25 pm**

Sounds like something they should have done about the time we first went into Afghanistan.

Posted: **Fri Mar 25, 2011 7:18 pm**

Soldiers using diamox collapsed from dehydration? Stunning!

Posted: **Fri Mar 25, 2011 8:32 pm**

Andes6000 wrote:Soldiers using diamox collapsed from dehydration? Stunning!

Where does it say that in the article??

Posted: **Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:38 pm**

80% get sick?!

well, duh!

Posted: **Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:19 pm**

borutbk wrote:Does anyone know if there is a relation between blood groups and acclimatization?

I'm no expert but in my readings, I have never come across any relationship. Out of curiosity, are blood groups related to anything medically speaking??... or is referring to blood groups, kind of an old paradigm?

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2011 5:12 pm**

I knew a doctor that did research for the Pentagon on altitude sickness. He looked at peoples' eyes, specifically the blood vessels in your eyeballs. He claimed he could predict susceptibility to altitude sickness based on the condition of your eyes.

Posted: **Fri May 06, 2011 11:29 pm**

Sickle cell anemia would cause crisis at altitude, but likely screened out already

Posted: **Sat May 07, 2011 2:33 am**

I think they need to improve their screening processes a little bit better, and stop spending my hard-earned money on their stupid studies !!!

:wink:

Posted: **Sat May 07, 2011 4:07 am**

Lionel wrote:Seems like common sense.

Yeah, but common sense doesn't apply HERE. These guys are always two steps BEYOND common sense.

:wink:

Posted: **Tue May 10, 2011 2:14 am**

lcarreau wrote:
Lionel wrote:Seems like common sense.

Yeah, but common sense doesn't apply HERE. These guys are always two steps BEYOND common sense.

Good thing for people to whine about, but how much of what you use was developed by DOD sponsored research?

Posted: **Tue May 10, 2011 4:35 am**

mconnell wrote: How much of what you use was developed by DOD sponsored research?

I don't know, I never thought about it.

I've never had the opportunity to parachute into a high-altitude environment. But, I suppose research is good to have around, but only if we can afford it.

I mean, if we can't afford it, then WHY have it ?

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