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Feel good in an
airplane
Wrote
and edited: Yair Bar-Zohar
Date:
11.01.2006
Dress right, be
sure to dress easy and comfortable (it's
recommended to wear
clothes that are made of natural fabrics). Tight clothes
might block the blood flow to your feet and cause you to
feel inconvenient, so in cases like that you should loosen
the laces of the shoes. Enter your handbag a coat or a
sweater because sometimes the temperatures in the plane get
low.
Drink a lot of
water during the flight, your skin might get dry due to the
dry air in the plane. Avoid drinking coffee, tea or any
other drink that contains caffeine. It is also recommended
to drink alcohol or at least limit it to one drink only
during the entire flight.
Enter your
handbag some reading material such as a book, newspaper,
crossword magazines or any other material that will help you
pass the time during the flight.
It's
recommended to eat a light meal before the flight. Big meals
will only make you uncomfortable.
If you suffer
from any kind of a health problems, or you need medications
or any other medical means, don’t forget to put them in your
handbag.
Contact lens
owners should not wear them during the flight because the
air in the plane is dry. Those who need glasses to watch
television should make sure they bring it with them.
Night flights
are always better, when you fly during the night, the
fatigue does its work and you sleep better. Try getting a
seat behind/near/in front of an emergency exit because you
have a lot of room for your legs (you can't
lean the seat
forward due to security measures. In order to get a good
place in the plane, you need to arrive to the airport at
least two and a half hours earlier (before the time of the
flight). Make sure you don’t have a baby besides you because
then, you might not be able to sleep the entire flight. If
you haven’t received a seat near the emergency exit, ask for
a seat near the window and not near the pass, since everyone
that passes through will bump into you. Under no
circumstances accept a chair that doesn’t have the option to
lean it backwards.
Before you
enter the plane (and the long time sitting), wash your face,
make all of your needs, and get ready for the long flight.
Before you sit
down, take out of your handbag everything you'll
need for
the flight (book + sleeping equipment + medicines).
While you're
sitting, take off your shoes and socks. Put one pillow on
the wall (in case you sit near the window) and put the other
one on the chair, and bring them together so you'll
have a
lot of area to sleep on, and then cover yourself with the
blanket you were given. It's
recommended to ask for the
pillows and the blanket when you enter the plane.
For long
flights (above 6 hours of flying- trans flights), you can
take sleeping pills called
Unisom,
which you can buy without prescription. Do not take these
pills in short flights; otherwise you will be sleepy when
you land, for a few hours at least.
Move your feet
and walk in the plane in order to avoid foot swelling,
preventing blood clots in your veins and loosing tiredness.
You should do it at least once an hour. You mustn’t put one
leg over the other for a long time.
Sleeping
equipment:
Inflatable
pillow - the plane sits are not the most comfortable sits
there are. Whoever trying to sleep during long flights,
sometimes find himself moving from one side of the chair to
the other side in order to find a good position for the body
and the neck. The market has a lot of inflatable pillows
which are intended for these purposes. There are also
regular pillows and those with a shape of half a moon, which
gives support for your neck. There are pillows made out of
plastic but the best are made out of rubber.
Ear plugs
–
during the flight, the noise inside the plane is almost
unbearable, and it can get worse if you sit beside a family
with a baby, which makes the noise even more unbearable.
There are disposable ear plugs and there are kinds for
multiply use.
Eyes cover - mask made out of cotton which prevents light
exposure that comes from the windows or the light of your
neighbor's seat. You need to take in account that inflatable
pillows tend to inflate when the plane is high, so you
should inflate them partially.
What do you do when your ears are clogged during the
flight?
Avoid flying if you suffer from a cold or congestion in your
nose, but if you still have to fly, you should take a
medicine to reduce your congestion an hour before the
takeoff and an hour before you land.
Avoid tightening your jaws during flight, because air
pockets could cause you pain. Therefore, it is recommended
to relax your jaws by moving them inside and outside every
half an hour.
Yawning can open your Haustuachit channel and cause you
pain.
Plug your nostrils, close your mouth and breathe lightly in
order to release the pressure in your ears.
Whoever is in pain, should take a pill for it before he
takes-off or land.
Drinking will cause your body to swallow, which will also
release the pressure.
Put gums or candy into your mouth for the time of the
take-off and the landing, it will easy the annoying pressure
in the ears.
Use special ear plugs that have a mechanism for comparing
pressures.
What can prevent nausea and hearburn
1.
Drink soft drinks (and not hot) an hour before the meal and
an hour after, but don’t drink during
2.
Don’t eat before and during the flight spicy or fried food
(garlic, onion)
3.
Don’t digest food
that makes you swell or that are hard to digest.
4.
Don’t fly on an empty stomach.
5.
Avoid drinking alcohol before and during the flight, but you
can drink during the meal they serve.
What can relieve nausea
1.
Drink soda.
2.
Eat candy.
3.
Avoid drinking coffee or tea.
4.
If you tend to feel nausea on a regular basis, equip
yourself with crackers and medications by prescription or
dietitian. Moreover, bring lemon sliced to half that can
easy the feeling of nasea or soured candy (you can ask the
flight crew for a lemon as well).
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