YOU CAN FLY HEALTHFULLY

It has been at news the lawyer who suffering tuberculosis took a regular passengers flight. The fact motivated the public and sanitary authorities concern on unsuspected hygiene conditions we can face when traveling by airplane. The multitude of passengers who use airlines is increasing and the preoccupations usually are focused on delays, the more evident handling of luggage and other services.

Yet, the cough or sneeze of a trip neighbor can become an incident that spoils your vacations.

Despite of we could think, experts consider that we can make enough to travel with health in airplane.

You feel thirst and the atmosphere of the cabin is dry?

The low humidity in the cabin of the airplanes causes that the mucous membranes stay parched, and especially in the flights of high altitude this favors the conservation of virus and bacteria.

You can keep hydrate if takings 8 ounces of water or fruit juice by hourly of flight. The alcohol or the drinks that contain caffeine acts like dehydrating agents, so that it is preferable that you take bottle water or juice, and even to avoid drinks prepared with the water stored in the airplane, like tea and coffee.

Also requests your drinks without ice when you travel by countries whose quality of water is doubtful.

75% of the commercial airlines use in the cabins air cleaners able to intercept almost all harmful bacterium, virus and other polluting agents, but it is not sufficient to avoid, for example, an immediate focus of infection, as a sneeze or a surface of common use.

It cost a small effort that you take your own microfiber covers for seats and pillows in prolonged flights. You never can guarantee that these supplements are completely clean and the hygiene schedule varies between the airlines.

Is not enough to insist on the simplest and effective procedure for protect your health: to wash your hands after touching potentially polluting surfaces like manipulators of doors, sanitary seats in the baths, keys of washbasin, magazines and other objects of common use by the passengers.

Also you must maintain your hands clean to touch your mouth, eyes, nose, or foods.

The most common way to get infections in the flights is not the contaminated air inhalation, but the contact with infected surfaces. Be careful to take in your trips an antibacterial gel for the case that you do not find soap and water.

The specialists recommend some gel with at least 60% of alcohol. In the stores and pharmacies are obtained samples in small amounts of two to three ounces, which correspond to the effective norms in the airports to transport liquids and gel.

A detail not less effective: to wash your teeth use bottled water, not the water stored in the airplane.

There are other dangers and discomfort in a travel that do not come from bacteria and virus in flights.

During long flights it may be you develop sanguineous clots in the deep veins of the legs. This even represents a perhaps mortal danger of emboli days after your trip.

There are people with particular risk if they have been put under surgery in its inferior extremities recently, if they have circulatory problems; some patients of cancer, obese severe; pregnant women, under hormonal treatment or taking contraceptive pills.

They run risk in general who have familiar antecedents of sanguineous clots.

If it is possible you must walk hourly during the trip; uses the extensions in angle of the seats and moves your feet, hands and arms. Elevates your legs to the height of your heart, something easy if you travel in first class, but even possible if you travel in economic class, where you can support your feet in front, taking care of not bothering.

Also avoids be seated with crossing legs or to sleep in that position during long time.

If you know your sanguineous clots risk, consult your doctor about the socks of controlled compression. Appearing symptoms of venous thrombosis, like inflammation, heat or reddening in the legs, remarkable pain mainly when you stand up or walk, you must warn a flight assistant and avoid giving massages in your legs, which can be worse.

Have you experienced the sometimes painful irritations that cause in the ears the plane movement? To fly on 35.000 feet of height may cause changes of pressure in your ears when the airplane rises or low down. The passengers who suffer some congestion or headache are more susceptible.

Swallow will help you to balance the pressure of your ears. You can use rubber to chew or candies, besides to take small sorbs from bottled water.

Also there are devices to depressurize the ears, available in most of the pharmacies. Perhaps you have been recommended tighten your nose with the fingers and blow strong, but avoid this, because you can damage the eardrums.

If you are suffering cold asks your doctor on the use of some prescription… and do not forget to consult the effective norms to transport nasal spray in flights.

All this seems excessive to you? Are worth of that your vacations... and your health.

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