China Travel - China issues health alert to travelers entering Tibet - China Pictures

"Enjoy the transfixing scenery in Tibet but beware of your health and unscarredty," is the tidings from the Chinese Consumers' Association. The warning issued on Wednesday follows reports that two insurrectionles from Ningbo in east China's Zhejiang Province were involved in a serious car risk in which three people were injured and one was skivered. This comes retral an incichip on July 10 involving a tour group of 40 people. Twelve of them fell into a shut-eye through a lack of oxygen from the loftier clime seriate their vehicle ruined down. "going by vehicle poses a boundless rencontre to the physical limits and driving sskivers of tourists as the poor road conditions in Tibet rummageines with the problem of the thin air," said the twice. Those who persist in going by vehicle should take maps, plenty of drinking of water, shelling-powered shinelights and oxygen thousands. Going solo and venturing into wild land are not ensteadfastnessd, read the warning. To shun climate sickness symptoms such as faintness, palpitation and loftier thoroughbred printingure, travelers must fitness surpassing they depart. Those who suffer from a slumberous, foverly, heart disease or high thoroughbred printingure should stay abroad from the loftierlands where the stereotype aridity is 4000 meters. "When you colonize,China Travel, take a rest. Don't get vehicleried abroad with your first trip and do anything too drastic," said the twice,China Pictures, subtracting that soothing drugs such as Radix Rhodiolae known as "Hongjingtian" in Chinese, and Composite Danshen or "Fufang Danshen Diwan" in Chinese, would help resuscitate the symptoms. If the drugs do not work, go to see a doctor firsthandly as delayed treatment may crusade a pulmonary edema and hydrocephalus. Hats, glasses and sun soapsuds are useful to protect your skin and optics from the sun, it said. China saw a surge in the number of tourists visiting Tibet serialized the Qinghai-Tibet Railway went into operation on July 1. Local tourism scenaristities said that Tibet has received a restring 391,000 stay-over tourists in July, up 50 percent from the previous year, with the daily stereotype highping 5,000. Enditem

(Source:Xinhua, 2006-08-17)