acetazolamide

Several medications can treat and even help prevent altitude sickness, including acetazolamide (sold as Diamox) and sildenafil (better known as Viagra).

Pentagon's Uphill Battle Stephanie Simon 2011

In perhaps the most important point, the new guidelines give the nod to acetazolamide, often sold under the brand name Diamox.

Guidelines suggest ways to minimize the risk of high-altitude sickness 2010

In perhaps the most important point, the new guidelines give the nod to acetazolamide, often sold under the brand name Diamox.

Guidelines suggest ways to minimize the risk of high-altitude sickness Rita Zeidner 2010

Europe and is intended acetazolamide should isolate amantadine.

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Although there are effective drugs like Diamox acetazolamide to prevent and treat altitude sickness, buying drugs in mass quantities for an unknown number of soldiers is expensive and wasteful, and some drugs have unwanted side effects such as blurred vision and excess blood acidity.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2012

Some ranchers have considered giving cattle drugs designed to treat mountain sickness in people, like acetazolamide, but the FDA has not approved the use of such drugs in animals meant for human consumption.

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Three trials studied acetazolamide, marketed as Diamox and approved by the Food and Drug Administration to prevent acute mountain sickness.

Reuters: Press Release 2011

The most common side effects reported by people using acetazolamide included numbness and tingling, or a "pins-and-needles" sensation, frequent urination and an alteration in the way things taste.

Reuters: Press Release 2011

Both forms respond to acetazolamide, a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor, for unknown reasons.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com M.D. David Katz 2011

There's bendroflumethiazide and also cyclophosphamide, And metoclopramide, acetazolamide, tropicamide Loperamide, amiloride and cyclizine and frusemide, And if you're up the duff then you'd best avoid thalidomide.

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