Comments on: How to Prevent Jet Lag http://www.stepbystepdirections.com/health/travel-health/how-to-prevent-jet-lag/ Step By Step Directions and Tutorials on Everything Tue, 15 Mar 2011 06:50:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: potrish78 http://www.stepbystepdirections.com/health/travel-health/how-to-prevent-jet-lag//comment-page-1#comment-943 potrish78 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:39:19 +0000 http://www.stepbystepdirections.com/?p=132#comment-943 Before Flying: Prevention of jet lag starts even before your scheduled flight. Make sure you are fit to fly. Avoid traveling with a cold or fever as traveling by air can aggravate this condition. Arrange everything to make a worry-free trip. If you travel stressed, worried or tired, expect a worse jet lag. While on the plane: Ensure you drink plenty of water and avoid drinking alcohol or drinks with caffeine. Drinking plenty of water while flying can reduce jet lag. Arriving at your destination: When you arrive at your destination during the day then spend your time outside as much as you can. This will help you adjust to the new time zone. Tiring yourself out during the day will help you sleep well at night. Before Flying:
Prevention of jet lag starts even before your scheduled flight. Make sure you are fit to fly. Avoid traveling with a cold or fever as traveling by air can aggravate this condition. Arrange everything to make a worry-free trip. If you travel stressed, worried or tired, expect a worse jet lag.

While on the plane:
Ensure you drink plenty of water and avoid drinking alcohol or drinks with caffeine. Drinking plenty of water while flying can reduce jet lag.

Arriving at your destination:
When you arrive at your destination during the day then spend your time outside as much as you can. This will help you adjust to the new time zone. Tiring yourself out during the day will help you sleep well at night.

]]> By: tyleracesall http://www.stepbystepdirections.com/health/travel-health/how-to-prevent-jet-lag//comment-page-1#comment-885 tyleracesall Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:31:49 +0000 http://www.stepbystepdirections.com/?p=132#comment-885 try to synchronize your body along with the timezone of your destination country. If you arrive at the destination country at day time try your best to stay awake. Normally, our body has its way of reacting to sunlight, so try to expose yourself to more sunlight or artificial light if you have to stay in. It also helps to be armed with a chewing gum that has eucalyptus flavor, it can help awaken your senses and help you be on the ball. A healthy ammount of caffeine intake never fails to keep us from falling asleep, but avoid drinking coffee 6 hours before bedtime. If it's night time, help yourself to fall asleep. You can read a book, this will help you take your mind off things around you. It would help if it's a boring book because that would eventually make you fall asleep. If you can get a massage, that'd be better because massage helps us to relax and calm down and hence lull ourself to dreamland. You can also bring sleeping pills with you that have no addictive effects. try to synchronize your body along with the timezone of your destination country.

If you arrive at the destination country at day time try your best to stay awake.
Normally, our body has its way of reacting to sunlight, so try to expose yourself to more sunlight or artificial light if you have to stay in.
It also helps to be armed with a chewing gum that has eucalyptus flavor, it can help awaken your senses and help you be on the ball.
A healthy ammount of caffeine intake never fails to keep us from falling asleep, but avoid drinking coffee 6 hours before bedtime.

If it’s night time, help yourself to fall asleep. You can read a book, this will help you take your mind off things around you. It would help if it’s a boring book because that would eventually make you fall asleep. If you can get a massage, that’d be better because massage helps us to relax and calm down and hence lull ourself to dreamland.
You can also bring sleeping pills with you that have no addictive effects.

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