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Now Take A Few Minutes To Do The Most Important Travel Planning Of All Learn How To Stay Healthy While You re En To Travel
ealthy Travel (enough to cover your days away
from home), in their original
• Important Note: Traveling containers with clearly
and Illness identifiable labels.
As you are preparing for tarvel, If you are generally in good
please be sure to continue to health, there are some typical
focus on measures to ensure your minor ailments that travelers
good health: eat a balanced diet, frequently encounter which may
get plenty of rest, avoid smoking necessitate use of
and be sure you are effectively non-prescription medicines.
managing any ongoing health
issues. In the unlikely event Consider bringing a few doses of
that you become ill with a fever medicine if you are prone to the
or respiratory illness the day following:
prior to your scheduled departure
date, please see your doctor to diarrhea
determine whether you are healthy upset stomach
enough to travel and participate headache
in the event. Your health as well sinus congestion
as the health of participants is motion sickness
important to yourself.
• During Travel
• Your Travel "First Aid" Kit
Bring enough of any required
Be sure you bring the following medicines in carry-on bag.
to ensure a safe, health and
convenient travel experience: If seated next to a person with
respiratory symptoms on the
Your prescription medicines plane, contact the flight
attendant for a change in seating prevent conditions attributed to
if available. When a change is sedentary positions (swollen
not possible: avoid direct ankles, muscle cramps). If you
contact (face-to-face); avoid can take aspirin safely, a low
touching your eyes, nose and dose (81 milligrams) taken on the
mouth; be conscious of the day of departure can be helpful
surfaces you touch and wash your in preventing clot formation.
hands frequently.
Try to get as much fresh air and
Drink plenty of fluids exercise as you can between
(preferably water) before, flight connections.
during, and after your flight.
Not only will you feel better, Clear your head with a hot,
but keeping up your fluid steamy shower after you land.
reserves also helps your body Avoid smoking areas while you
fight illness and risk of jet wait for a connecting flight and
lag. If need be, use moisturizer when you reach your destination.
and lip balm to combat the dry
air in the flight cabin. To minimize the discomfort of
pressure building in your ears,
If you wear glasses, don't fly here's how to make them pop:
with contact lenses -- wear your pinch your nostrils closed and
glasses instead. Contacts will inhale deeply. Then exhale
only dry out and further irritate through your nose, blowing out in
itchy or burning eyes. short, firm bursts until you feel
your ears pop. Yawning, drinking
Take frequent walks in the liquids, and chewing gum also
aisles, stretch and exercise your helps.
lower limbs while seated to keep
blood your blood flowing and • jet lag
destination, take a walk after
Anyone who's suffered from the you get settled. The exercise
fatigue of crossing time zones will stimulate your body and help
can attest that it's no fun being convince it to stop producing
bleary-eyed and groggy for the sleep-inducing hormones.
first couple days of and after
your trip. There are ways of Use earplugs and blindfolds to
minimizing the effects of jet help dampen noise and block out
lag, so take note: unwanted light while sleeping.
Adjust your sleeping and eating A variety of over-the-counter
patterns to the new time zone a products are available that
couple days before your flight -- purport to ease jet lag or
usually one day per time zone. encourage sleep on lengthy
flights.
Upon boarding the plane, change
your watch to the destination Fortunately, your adjustment in
time zone. Drink plenty of New Zealand will likely go
fluids, keeping yourself as smoothly as you will be getting
hydrated as possible. While plenty of exercise!!
trying to knock yourself out with
a couple glasses of wine or wake Stay heallthy
yourself up with coffee may seem
like good ideas while flying, Focusing on these key areas will
think again -- alcohol and help you to "Stay Health"
caffeine dehydrate the body,
making your even more tired when 1. Pay attention to personal
you arrive at your destination. hygiene and handwashing
2. Eat a balanced diet and drink
If it's daytime in your plenty of water
3. Be physically active alternative protein sources)
4. Get plenty of sleep
5. Manage strees Your body requires a minimum
6. Avoid smoking amount of daily fluid intake to
7. keep immunizations current maintain health
8. Manage any ongoing health
issues - Fluids help to keep mucous
membranes moist enough to combat
Eating a balanced diet is perhaps viruses on contact
the most direct action you can - Requirement 6-8 cups (1.4-1.9
take to nurture your immune liters) per day
system - Avoid drinks like coffee, tea,
and colas with caffeine;they
- The immune system requires a deplete your body of fluids
balance of nutrients to function
properly If you are exercising and
- Without this balance,you can sweating, drinking water is
become sick more easily and have doubly important
a longer recovery time
- Ensure your daily meals - 1to2hours before exercising: 10
include: to 14 ounces of cold water (about
- vegetables(especially leafy a cup and a half, or 295 to 414
green) ml)
- fruits - 10to15 minutes before
- whole and fortified grains(any exercising: 10 ounces of cold
food made from water (about a cup and a half, or
wheat,rice,oats,cornmeal,barley 295 ml)
or other ceral grain) - While exercising: 3to4 ounces
- dairy products,with small of cold water every 15 minutes
amounts of fish and meat(or (about a cup and a half, or 89 to
118 ml)
Abrahamson Owen is the professional freelance writer. He's also the webmaster of Savehealthguide.com
Published At: www.Isnare.com
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