Mt Whitney Zone Forums General Discussion Dexamethasone and HAPE

I answered your question if you had HAPE and the only drug you had was dex should you take it.Now KevinR is talking about taking 10 doses of 4mg Dexamethasone.

You still don't know anything about the drug,whether you should use it in a hypothetical case of HACE or HAPE.I think the experts have weighed in on what your first order of business is. That is high altitude experience. Second is understanding and rcognizing the signs and sytoms of AMS including HAPE or HACE. Discusing whether to use a powerful steroid like Dexamethasone should happen between you and a knowledgable doctor one on one. Not here on a message board.
Most importantly it has been made clear that the best treatment for suspected AMS is descent.While Mt Whitney has caused cases of AMS we are not talking Mt Everest here where there are professional doctors with experience injecting Dex intra-muscularly for serious cases of life and death due to HAPE and HACE.