Jet Lag?
Nearly everyone suffers from jet lag when they fly. But could jet lag actually be down to chemical poisoning?
We all assume that the half dead feeling we sometimes have when getting off a flight is down to jet lag and is caused by the disruption to our body clocks – especially when flying long distances (but not always, some people have ‘jet lag’ after only a couple of hours in the air – surely not long enough to disrupt the body clock).
But what if that jet lag feeling is caused by something else? What if you’ve unwittingly been breathing in contaminated cabin air – air that has been filtered through the plane’s engines (bleed air) and has picked up some noxious chemicals on the way. These chemicals can affect your central nervous system and give you – guess what? – ‘jet lag’ type symptoms.
We take jet lag for granted – that’s not surprising considering the use of bleed air in the air conditioning units goes back to the sixties. For most people it’s always been with us.
Tags: chemical poisoning, jet lag
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