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Are people with motion sickness more prone to altitude sickness?

Dr. Jordan Hayes
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2025-05-01 08:28:31
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Carsickness and altitude sickness are different in principle, there is no necessary connection, carsickness is mainly related to the stimulation of vestibular utricle and saccule hair cells, and altitude sickness is mainly due to the human body can not adapt to the environment of low pressure and hypoxia caused, altitude sickness occurs in the elderly lower than young people.