Travel: Stay healthy when you fly
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Do you take care of your health when you’re flying? Airline travel, especially on long flights, delivers health challenges.
Personal Health - Flying Healthy, From Takeoff Past Landing - NYTimes.com reports:
“Airline cabins are commonly pressurized to altitudes of 1,524 to 2,438 meters, or about 5,000 to 8,000 feet, above sea level. Healthy people have no problem at such altitudes, but those with underlying heart or respiratory disease who may already have low levels of oxygen in their blood can develop symptoms of mountain sickness — fatigue, headache, lightheadedness and nausea. Those passengers may need supplementary oxygen when flying, the doctors wrote.”
Read the article — it offers excellent tips for travelers; if you’re going on vacation, you want to be healthy when you arrive.
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