There’s a whole discipline of preventive health care that focuses on treating aircrew – and you can start using it as soon as you’re looking for flights.
I’m a nervous flyer with a vivid imagination – not an ideal combination. Rocketing along in a crowded, oxygen-strained space for hours can give me all sorts of things to worry about. A random stomach pain can send me into a panic: What if I get sick up here?
You can start thinking about your health as you’re looking for flights, said Dr Paulo Alves, the global medical director of aviation health at MedAire, which provides remote medical assistants to airlines, and a fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association. If, for instance, you often get motion sickness, book a seat over the wing, which is more stable, he said.
Alves added his No.1 tip: If you’re not feeling well in general, avoid flying or clear it with your doctor first. “Many of the heart attacks that we see happening in flight, for example,” Alves said, “retrospectively, the person will say, ‘You know what? I was not feeling well before boarding.’”Bring all your medications in your carry-on luggage, not your checked luggage, Alves said.
Eating a large meal increases the chance of swallowing air, he added, and all that gas will expand in high altitudes. That can hurt — sometimes so badly, he said, that people think they have appendicitis.
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