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Jetlag

Jet lag refers to disruption of your "body clock" and leads often to a condition of general malaise and reduced physical and mental performance if your travel covers more than three timezones in a short period of time.

General you will feel the problems harder flying west-east and it seems that it takes some more time for women to reset their body clock to the new time zone.

To help avoid jet lag:

• Be well rested before departure and have as much rest as possible during the flight, including short naps.
• Drink plenty of fluids such as water during your airline flight.
• Exercise will also help, so walking the cabin aisle occasionally will also help to lessen the effects of jet lag.
• Know the exact times to seek and avoid bright light. Exposure to light at the wrong time can actually make Jetlag worse
• A short-acting sleeping medication may be useful in treating sleeping problems in cases associated with jet lag. But be careful about intake of alcohol.
• Use the hormone Melatonin, at present available in very few countries (sold, but not approved by FDA in US). Melatonine is used by some traveller's to resynchronise the body's internal clock although its benefit is unproven and side-effects unknown.

Travellers who take medication according to a strict timetable (e.g. insulin, oral contraceptives) should seek medical advice.

Jet lag Resource:

Transmission of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-producing Staphylococcus aureus from returning travelers to household contacts.
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Primary prevention lessons learned from those with HIV in Chennai, India.
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Sex Health. 2011 Jun;8(2):199-206
Who are the medical travelers and what do they want?: a qualitative study.
Karuppan CM, Karuppan M.
Health Mark Q. 2011 Apr;28(2):116-32
Tularaemia in Berlin - two independent cases in travellers returning from central Anatolia, Turkey, February 2011.
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Euro Surveill. 2011 May 5;16(18). pii: 19860
Cost risk benefit analysis to support chemoprophylaxis policy for travellers to malaria endemic countries.
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Malar J. 2011 May 17;10:130
First footprints of an expedition doctor.
Drake S.
Clin Teach. 2011 Jun;8(2):128-30. doi: 10.1111/j.1743-498X.2011.00434.x. No abstract available.
Travel and vaccination patterns: a report from a travel medicine clinic in northern Sweden.
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From convicts to colonists: the health of prisoners and the voyage to Australia, 1823-53.
Foxhall K.
J Imp Commonw Hist. 2011;39(1):1-19
An application of the edge effect in measuring accessibility to multiple food retailer types in southwestern Ontario, Canada.
Sadler RC, Gilliland JA, Arku G.
Int J Health Geogr. 2011 May 15;10:34
Understanding barriers to medication adherence in the hypertensive population by evaluating responses to a telephone survey.
Nair KV, Belletti DA, Doyle JJ, Allen RR, McQueen RB, Saseen JJ, Vande Griend J, Patel JV, McQueen A, Jan S.
Patient Prefer Adherence. 2011 Apr 29;5:195-206
A pilot study of the development and implementation of a 'best practice' patient information booklet for patients with chronic venous insufficiency.
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Phlebology. 2011 Dec;26(8):338-43. Epub 2011 May 13
Travelling to Greece for the summer 2011 Special Olympics.
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Cost-effectiveness of pharmacological and psychosocial interventions for schizophrenia.
Phanthunane P, Vos T, Whiteford H, Bertram M.
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Palliative care making a difference in rural Uganda, Kenya and Malawi: three rapid evaluation field studies.
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BMC Palliat Care. 2011 May 12;10:8
Determinants of poor adherence to anti-tuberculosis treatment in mumbai, India.
Bagchi S, Ambe G, Sathiakumar N.
Int J Prev Med. 2010 Fall;1(4):223-32
Salmonella infections associated with international travel: a Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) study.
Johnson LR, Gould LH, Dunn JR, Berkelman R, Mahon BE; Foodnet Travel Working Group.
Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2011 Sep;8(9):1031-7. Epub 2011 May 12
An investigation of equity of rural speech-language pathology services for children: a geographic perspective.
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Int J Speech Lang Pathol. 2011 Jun;13(3):239-50
Selling medical travel to US patient-consumers: the cultural appeal of website marketing messages.
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Anthropol Med. 2011 Apr;18(1):119-36
Of relics, body parts and laser beams: the German Heilpraktiker and his Ayurvedic spa.
Naraindas H.
Anthropol Med. 2011 Apr;18(1):67-86
Health tourism in a Czech health spa.
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