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Pediatric acute mountain sickness?
18 month old boy exhibited ataxia, sleepiness and loss of appetite upon first 24 hours of arrival to altitude of 8,400 feet. Today, all symptoms resolved seemingly instantly and coordination and sleep habits returned to normal. So, my question for someone with experience with children around this age dealing with altitude sickness is this...with HACE or HAPE would it be obvious that he was deteriorating further (i.e. not returning to normal/acclimating) or is this still a concern? Initially I thought the ataxia was from dizziness but now realize it could be more serious although he seems completely normal in every way now as of mid day Wednesday (yesterday).
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- formerly_bobLv 72 years ago
Its neither HAPE or HACE if the symptoms came and went within 24 hours. At 8,4000 feet, you would expect HAPE or HACE to take at least 3 days to develop. All of his symptoms are common with acute mountain sickness. If he has those symptoms again he should immediately be take to a lower elevation.