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How To Not Get Sick On An Airplane

» How To Not Get Sick On An Airplane

I get sick every time I go home for Christmas, and while it isn’t helped by lack of sleep and alcohol abuse, I’m pretty sure 75% of it is the 3-5 hours I spend on what is, essentially, a flying petri dish.

So thanks to The Wall Street Journal for these tips (which I’ve summarized):

• Hydrate (drink water, use saline spray).
• Clean your hands with alcohol-based hand sanitizer
• Use disinfecting wipes to clean off tray tables before using
• Avoid seat-back pockets.
• Open your air vent, and aim it so it passes just in front of your face. Filtered airplane air can help direct airborne contagions away from you.
• Stay the hell away from people who look sick

The air vent thing was new to me! Now I’m off to get disinfecting wipes and some saline spray.

Update: thanks to @aweissman for this suggestion: “i do this and it almost always works: basically OD on Vitamin C before you get on the plane - right before. Use EmergenC or a similar product, drink it all up while waiting.”

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    See also: Daniel Pink’s travel tips. Episode #1...about avoiding illness.

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    Relevant, as I’ll be flying all...24th and 25th…Already stocked up

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    you people who are...the holidays could think about doing

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19. nedhepburn said: AirBorne had a class action lawsuit against it
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22. newspeedwayboogie said: i do this and it almost always works: basically OD on Vitamin C before you get on the plane - right before. Use EmergenC or a similar product, drink it all up while waiting.
23. looseleaftay said: Drink Airbourne!
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31. thatawkwardginger said: Aww, I thought you ment like…motion sicknesses. That would be useful.
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    Good things to know.

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