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Here are some common-sense tips that can help ease your misery: Preselect an aisle seat. Many travelers opt for window seats on short-haul flights but aisle seats for long-haul travel, simply because they offer more freedom of movement. Moving around every few hours also helps prevent blood clots! Carry a small emergency kit with pain relief medication, Pepto-Bismol and TUMS, hand sanitizer and antibacterial wipes with you. Hydrate as much as you can stand, ideally in small sips every few minutes.
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DoubleTree by Hilton will open 15 new properties in Southeast Asia. On Oct. Before boarding any epic flight, I like to load up on sustenance. At Hong Kong International Airport, the restaurant choices seemed endless. I ordered the sweet and sour chicken. In retrospect, I wish I had not. The restaurant was packed with travelers hunched over bowls of rice and noodles. Piles of luggage occupied every imaginable space.
The only available seat was adjacent to a young Chinese woman who motioned for me to sit. Turns out she was a year-old from Beijing who had been traveling on her own in Australia. I dived into food and conversation, vaguely realizing that the sweet and sour chicken seemed crunchier than usual. If I had been traveling alone, I might have pushed the food away and tried another restaurant. But because I was talking with a woman who had grown up on the opposite side of the world, because she shared my passion for solo travel and had been kind enough to invite me to her table, I continued to gobble up the conversation and the unusually crunchy sweet and sour chicken.
After the meal, we wished each other a pleasant flight and walked to our respective departure gates. As I walked down the jet bridge, I felt as though compressed air were being pumped into my insides. My belly tightened.
I wanted to belch, but no air would come forth. Lucky for me, I was traveling on an employee pass and had been issued the last available seat, adjacent to the lavatory. The airplane roared down the runway. My stomach roared in response. Food poisoning can affect a crew member's performance of his duties and, in severe cases, the poisoning can result in incapacitation.
Food poisoning usually arises as a consequence of improper handling, preparation, or storage of food. Crew incapacitation due to food allergy is covered by a separate article. Bacteria are a common cause of food poisoning. The most common foodborne bacterial pathogens, accounting for the majority of harmful infections, are:. Toxins from bacterial infections are delayed because the bacteria need time to multiply and symptoms are not usually seen until 12 - 72 hours or more after eating contaminated food.
In addition to disease caused by direct bacterial infection, some foodborne illnesses are caused by exotoxins which are excreted as the bacterium grows. Exotoxins can produce illness even when the microbes that produced them have been killed.
Symptoms typically appear after 24 hours depending on the amount of toxin ingested. Commonly encountered toxins include:.
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