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| It is very rare to develop some illness, like the flu or colds, at the high altitudes of Chilean mountains. This is probably because of the dry altitude air, the ultraviolet rays that kill germs and the sparse population. A cold caused by a virus would be, unfortunately, very difficult to treat. Only the symptoms could be somehow attenuated, with homely remedies or with medicines. If additionally, pain appears in the face, forehead or jaws with yellowish nasal secretions, it exists the danger of sinusitis, which can be treated with antibiotics. However, these usually have no effect, because the paranasal sinuses are badly irrigated so the medicaments cannot get to them. Problems to sleep because of a plugged nose can be treated with drops that alleviate the swelling of the mucose. |
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