Авиагрузоперевозки в Африке

 

Whether you suffer from jet lag, earache or travel sickness – here you will find helpful tips on how you can enjoy your flight without any worry.

In addition, here are some important information for passengers with a peanut allergy: no peanuts are served on Gambia Bird Airlines Ltd. flights. However, we cannot guarantee that our aircraft and our in-flight meals are completely free from peanuts or peanut products.

Passengers who suffer from a mild peanut allergy are kindly requested to make all the necessary medical preparations to avoid an allergic reaction. If you know that you suffer from a severe allergic reaction to peanuts or other allergens and possibly carry emergency medication with you (e.g. EpiPen), you should consult your doctor before you fly.

 

How to treat “Jet lag”

The weather is great, that meeting or your holiday can begin – but you feel exhausted. What you have is “jet lag”, the well-known phenomenon that troubles many passengers during their first few days in a country with time differences.

 

Causes

People normally live in a 24-hour rhythm. While we sleep, the heart and breathing rates slow, the blood pressure drops and the muscles relax and the mental and psych-motoric efficiency declines significantly.

A rapid change to another location in another time zone disturbs phases in the human daily rhythm. It interrupts not only people’s usual cycles of sleeping and being awake, but also the regular course of a great number of disparate bodily functions that operate in a 24-hour rhythm.

 

Effects

Tiredness and slowed reactions combined with memory and concentration problems are the most frequent results. People can also feel exhausted and suffer headaches and a sense of nausea due to the interruption of their normal sleeping time.

 

General tips on countering jet lag

 

During the Flight:

  • Set your watch to the local time in your destination country soon after boarding your aircraft. This will help you prepare yourself mentally for the new time rhythm that awaits you

After Arrival:

  • Try to get into the daily rhythm of your destination. That means eating at local mealtimes and not going to bed until after sundown
  • Try to get enough sleep during the first night after your arrival
  • Avoid strenuous activities as much as possible in the first two days after arrival to give your body time to get used to the new daily rhythm
  • Avoid taking sleeping pills and melatonin, because they confuse the human organism even more
  • Spend as much time as you can in the open air – daylight helps the body to adjust faster to the new surroundings
  • On short trips, try to maintain as much as possible the day-night rhythm of your homeland – that will prevent ‘double jet lag’
  • If possible, stay at home for one or two days after your journey. This will help you to relax while you get used to the daily rhythm in your homeland again

 

Travel sickness – “Handling a sense of nausea”

Don’t fly on an empty stomach.

Instead, light food such as fruit, vegetables, salad, biscuits, cereal bars and rusk before and during a flight are recommended. Do without coffee, black tea, alcohol, nicotine and spicy, fatty food.

Take vitamin B1: it plays a major role in transmitting nerve impulses and helps travel sickness sufferers to alleviate problems with their sense of balance. These foods contain especially large amounts of vitamin B1: artichokes, fish, oatmeal, natural rice, asparagus, wheat products and pork.

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Ginger helps against nausea problems in a gentle and natural way. So drink some ginger tea in good time before your departure. This will rid you of your sense of nausea by natural means and have absolutely no side-effects.

Choose the right seat! – Ask for a seat on the center aisle near the wings. The aircraft’s movements are least noticeable there.

If that’s not possible, secure a window seat. If you fly during the daytime you can calm your nervous stomach by fixing your eyes on a point on the horizon, giving your sense of balance a reference point. That will ease your feeling of nausea.

 

Medications against travel sickness


As a preventive measure, you can take non-prescription medications, such as travel chewing gum, which diminish the side-effects of travel sickness such as tiredness and lack of concentration. There are also medications to suppress feelings of nausea, although due to their potential side-effects you must have a doctor’s prescription for them.

 

Travel thrombosis – “What you should know and can do”

What can cause a travel thrombosis?


Long, immobile sitting, such as in aircraft, restricts the flow of blood to the heart, which active muscle movement promotes. This can result in deposits of liquid, mostly in the lower leg. Increased pressure on the tissues causes for its part a reduction of the blood circulation.

In rare cases, involving ‘risk’ persons, a blood clot can develop on the wall of the vein. This is described as a thrombosis, which impedes the flow of blood much more.

In very rare cases, part of the blood clot can break off and be carried to the lungs by the flow of blood.
By blocking a blood vessel this can result in considerable reduction of the heart’s pumping performance.
This is called an embolism of the lung, which in an extreme situation can lead to sudden heart failure.

 

Special Risk Groups

 

  • People over 60
  • Persons who have already suffered from thrombosis
  • Overweight people
  • Pregnant women
  • Women who take a contraceptive pill and also smoke
  • People who recently had an operation
  • People with a hereditary blood coagulation disorder

 

What you can do to prevent a thrombosis?

By wearing compression stockings (best of all, compression panty hose), you can greatly reduce the liquid deposits in your legs. People in high-risk groups should have compression stockings fitted individually.

Try to get some exercise during your flight.

Make sure you drink enough on the flight in order to help your body achieve a sensible liquids balance amid the dry air in the cabin.

Cut down on alcohol and don’t take sleeping pills or tranquilizers.

We definitely recommend that especially endangered persons should consult their doctor. In some cases, taking a preventive anticoagulant medication can be necessary.

 

Change of climate – How to adjust to temperature changes

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Change of Climate

When you travel to much warmer regions you should note that your body needs a certain time to adjust to the changed climate. A rapid change in temperature, especially from cold to hot, puts a heavy strain on the blood circulation.

 

Tips to cope with a change of climate

 

Before the Journey:

  • By frequent visits to a sauna before your journey you can train your body to adjust to the coming temperature change
  • Hot-and-cold showers also strengthen your cardiovascular system
  • Sunbathing in a solarium can prepare your skin for greater exposure to real and intensive sunrays but it does not influence your bio-rhythm

 

During the flight:

Not only during longer flights should you do something for your sense of well-being on board. We have put together some tips for you

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After Arrival:

  • If possible, wear clothing that suits the local climate when you leave the aircraft. Also think of head coverage, especially on journeys to sun countries
  • Travelers who are greatly overweight and patients with heart or lung ailments should avoid strenuous physical activity during the first few days after their flight
  • Depending on the humidity of your destination country, you should drink a lot of liquid to help your body’s thermal adjustment. The golden rule is: the dryer the air, the more you should drink

Pregnancy – “Answers to important questions”

Trouble-free flying in pregnancy

For women with uncomplicated pregnancies flying is problem free. Nevertheless we recommend that pregnant women talk to their doctor in advance about their forthcoming flight.

 

Expectant mothers with complication-free pregnancies can fly with Gambia Bird Airlines Ltd. until the end of the 36th week of pregnancy or up to four weeks before their expected due date without a medical certificate from a gynecologist. However, we recommend that expectant mothers beyond the 28th week of their pregnancies carry a current letter from a physician which includes the following:

  • confirmation that the pregnancy is progressing without complications
  • the expected due date
  • the doctor should expressly state that the patient’s pregnancy does not prevent her from flying
  • From the 32th week time onwards, pregnant women must submit a doctor’s certificate, dated within 72 hours of the scheduled time of departure. The certificate must state that the doctor has examined the patient and found her to be physically fit for air travel. It must also state the estimated due date.

    In the case of a complicated pregnancy or twins or a multiple pregnancy it is essential to request a certificate of exemption from the 28th week of pregnancy.

    Because of the increased risk of thrombosis during pregnancy, we recommend the wearing of compression stockings in the aircraft.

    Medications – “Tips on transporting and taking medicines”

    Medications to be taken regularly


    Due to having to adjust to a different time of day, problems can arise in the regular taking of medications. If you must take a medication at regular intervals, we recommend that you consult a doctor before a flight across several time zones.

    Insulin
    Since the amount of insulin to be injected is linked with the mealtime rhythm, the time components play an especially important role. So we have compiled some important advice for people affected by diabetes mellitus.

    The contraceptive pill
    Certainty in contraception is best achieved by taking an extra pill when you take a westbound flight and the day lengthens by at least six hours. We recommend you consult your doctor on this point in advance.

     

    Medications in carry-on luggage

    Medications packaging should be proof against knocks and shocks and the medications you need should if possible be spread around several carry-on luggage items. It’s advisable to take in your carry-on luggage about one-and-a-half to twice the amount you expect to need. In exceptional cases flights can be diverted or their departure is delayed for a long time – even if you are already sitting in the aircraft.

     

    Passing through Customs with medications

    If you have medications and injection needles in your carry-on luggage, it’s advisable to have a doctor’s certificate with you which confirm that it is medical material for personal needs.

     

    Loss of medications

    Just in case you lose your medications during your journey or in the destination country, you should ask your doctor to provide you with an overview of your blood group and other important personal health data, as well as the dosage of the medications and their generic names (non-protected under commodity law, internationally free names of medications). You should also have with you the documents you need for treatment or issuing of prescriptions in a foreign country. Obtain information on them from your doctor or your health insurance company.

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    Passengers with health problems – “Please make these arrangements”

    Passengers with respiratory problems

    We are only able to provide a limited extra oxygen supply on board, so please contact Gambia Bird Airlines Ltd. no later than 48 hours before your departure to ensure that sufficient oxygen is available. Please be aware that the costs of providing this must be paid in advance. We recommend that you contact your health insurance or private health care provider about the possibility of having these costs refunded. Additionally, you must be assessed by your local doctor as “Fit to fly” before the flight.

     

    Passengers with heart pacemakers

    Before you start your journey, please ask your doctor about the procedure at security and about any other possible risks. If you have a pacemaker, you must present a medical certificate to this effect at security.

     

    Passengers with diabetes mellitus

    Travelling as a diabetic you may maintain your special diet on flights on which food is served, provided that you let us know your requirements at least 48 hours before your departure.

    Please also note our advice under “Taking your Medications with you”.

    Before the journey:

    • Consult your doctor before you travel about the quantity and type of your insulin injections.
    • In addition, have a precise injection plan drawn up so that you know when and how much insulin you have to give yourself.
    • Take with you twice as much medication and material as you need (best of all, one set each in your carry-on and hold baggage), so that in emergencies you always have a reserve to hand.
    • On westbound flights across time zones the day gets longer, so you should have an extra meal and dose of insulin. Consult your doctor on that point before your journey.
    • In contrast, when flying east the day gets shorter, so it is recommended that you take less insulin. Consult your doctor on this point as well before your journey.

     

    After Arrival:

    • Please note that insulin should be stored at fridge temperature (+2 to +8 degrees Celsius). Without refrigeration it can be transported for up to 24 hours; however it should never be at temperatures above 25 degrees Celsius.
    •  After the first night in your destination country an additional blood-sugar check and possibly an extra meal with carbohydrates is recommended in order to supply your body with the nutrients it needs.

    •  In the case of diarrhea and vomiting you should without fail consult a local doctor. He or she will examine your fluid balance and if necessary adjust your insulin dosage. For this reason it is absolutely essential that you have the documents with you that are needed for treatment in a foreign country. Please talk to your usual doctor or your health insurance company about this.