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air travel disease
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air travel disease
Travel medicine Any condition related to the unique conditions of air travel Infections The potential for infection by an airborne pathogen from another inmate in the confined quarters of commercial flights is understudied. See Airline food, Air sickness
Air travel & disease
Aerotitis media
Middle ear trauma
Barosinusitis
Pain, bleeding of sinuses; flying with sinusitis may cause a spread to the CNS
Deep vein thrombosis
'Economy class' syndrome
Heart attack
Related to anxiety, sprinting to connecting flight, ↓ cabin O2 ergo hypoxia, ↓cabin humidity
Infections
eg, TB and other communicable diseases
Musculoskeletal
Low back pain and injuries
Nausea
Syncope/vertigo
-possibly related to ↓ cabin O2leading to hypoxia
Separation-related
Panic, anxiety, depression
Trauma
Due to objects tumbling from overhead–avoid the aisle seat
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