Never turn the Air Vent Above your Seat off during a Flight

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Never turn the Air Vent Above your Seat off during a Flight

Planes are typically cold – but resist the urge to turn the air vent off during a flight. Sure, you may have something worse looming on the other end of that flight, horrid in laws, or even your own family.  Hopefully a lavish vacation is waiting for you at the end, but sometimes these flights can be deeply unpleasant experiences.

FOR STARTERS- WHY ARE THEY SO COLD?

Especially, it seems, when you’re absolutely exhausted and just want to sleep but, owing to the winds of the North Pole. Many of us choose to switch off the air conditioning as soon as we can on a flight. It’s not just the cold that’s off-putting, but also the worry air con is one surefire way of spreading the germs of a hundred odd other strangers.

MANY PEOPLE SHUT OFF THE AIR TO PREVENT GERM CIRCULATION

It’s not just the cold that’s off-putting, but also the worry air con is one surefire way of spreading the germs of a hundred odd other strangers. But this is actually way off the mark. By shutting off the personal air vent on a flight, we are increasing our chances of getting ill.

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Dr. Mark Gendreau, medical director and vice chair of emergency medicine at Lahey Medical Center-Peabody in Massachusetts is something of an expert about infectious diseases. He explained to Travel + Leisure why it is we should keep the vent on. “For airborne viruses, it is incredibly important to ventilate, since ventilation becomes your main means of control besides isolating the affected person,” he says.

VIRUSES GO ON VACATION WITH YOU

Airborne viruses are transmitted by tiny droplets of nuclei that hang around in the air for as long as five hours. Dr Gendreau says these droplets can’t in fact reach you if the air con is on, because a barrier has been formed around you which prevents this. Many of us may attribute air con to the spread of germs – but this is incorrect. He adds, “the air that you’re typically breathing and exposed to is usually anywhere from two to five rows surrounding your seat. “The flow pattern of air on an aircraft doesn’t necessarily work front to back, or back to front. It’s actually compartmentalised into various sections on the aircraft.”

So keeping the pesky air vent on is a good thing, even if you do feel like you’re going to keel over frozen.

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