How Not to Get Sick from Flying on an Airplane

Sheesh, anyone else out there freaked out to fly and catch Ebola? While that threat is not huge, catching something else from an airplane or passenger is. It’s no coincidence that you often start feeling sick days after landing.

 

Here are some tips to keep you healthy while flying on an airplane.

 

 

Wear a hoodie

 

 

you don’t know who sat in the seat before. You don’t know how clean or dirty their hair was, so why lean your head back against the same place they rested theirs? Wear a hoodie or cap! Cover your hair and don’t risk catching lice or their head oil.

 

 

Use a mouth mask

 

 

Because you’ll regret it when the dude next to you sneezes. Don’t worry about looking funny, you’ll look smart and others wish they had one too.

 

 

Use sanitizer

 

 

Keep some with you at all times and use often, especially after coming out of those nasty airplane porta-potties.

 

 

Wear socks

 

 

Don’t walk around barefoot, that is disgusting and I will defriend you. Keep socks handy and put them on when you remove your shoes to get more comfy. Then place those socks in the laundry basket when you get home. I’ve seen dumbasses come out of the bathroom with bare feet. Hello!!! That ain’t French perfume on the floor around the toilet bowl!

 

 

Squat!

 

 

On airplanes and in any public restrooms. Do not sit down. Squat! And you all wonder how I have such strong, solid, perfectly shaped quads…

 

 

Don’t touch the magazines

 

 

Don’t touch them. Leave them in the seat pocket in front of you. Research shows that magazines hold the most bacteria on airplanes. Don’t touch them, and while you’re at it, don’t touch anything else on the plane. And if you do, pull out that hand sanitizer.

 

 

Shower

 

 

When you land, shower. Don’t go to bed before you wash your entire body and hair. You’ll feel and look better once all that shared air and grime is washed off of you.

 

 

Laundry

 

 

As much as you tried to avoid touching things on the airplane, you did. Put your clothes to wash as soon as you get home. They’re dirty. They sat in old chairs that strangers sweat and drooled in.

 

 

Use your own pillow

 

 

If you use your own neck rest pillow thing, please wash/clean/sanitize it after each flight. If not, and you get sick, I won’t feel sorry for you.

 

 

‘Quarantine’ your luggage

 

 

It has been in some pretty nasty places: overhead compartments, below the plane, conveyor belts, etc. When you get home or to your hotel, don’t put your luggage on the bed! Especially a small carryon like a back pack or computer bag. Don’t place them on your bed, don’t go to bed with those germs! Keep them on the ground or on a specific luggage rack.

 

 

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