Anyone been getting sick on flights lately?

[dgr416]

My brother and his wife both got bactetial pneumonia a month ago on their trip to London .My sisterinlaw stayed in the hospital 3 weeks on their return and is still severly sick .Last year I go really bad sick going and coming back from Alaska took months to get over all the crap I got and about ruined my trip .I took airborn vit c and a bunch of other stuff still got sick as a dog .Anyone have any preventions to not catch anythimg these days .

 

[Sika98k]

Unfortunately we are breathing recirculated air for the duration of the flight. There is something called I think, HVAC, that is meant to clean the air. However I too have frequently picked up some kind of bug on flights, mainly of the ENT type.

 

[Hedge774]

I got very sick on the way back from Limpopo in April. Coughing, fever, aches. I tested negative for everything. It took two weeks to get any relief.

 

[Hogpatrol]

Commercial aircraft employ HEPA filters and use a mix of bleed air and recirculated air. It's cleaner than what's in business establishments and even some homes. My doc says the cooties are always out there. If the immune system is stressed, they take over. Fortunately, never got sick on a 121 flight.

 

[Wildwillalaska]

I’d say vaccines and masks…but don’t want to get stoned and banished to the corner.

I get a flu vaccine each year…not because I think I really need to, more because it’s less trouble than listening to my wife (nurse) if I don’t and get sick. I didn’t get one for years, never got the flu.

For a few years right when I started working for a big firm in Dallas, I got one each year religiously. Not because I thought I needed one, but the main partner who I happened to work with said for what they were paying me, he expected I get one. That if I came down with the flu after having the vaccine, he’d cut me some slack, but if I didn’t get it, and caught the flu, he expected my ass to be in the office 10-14 hours a day as if I weren’t sick. They arranged a mobile company to pull into the circle drive of the office building…so with his warning, I smiled and took the elevator down with him. Still never got the flu that I know of.

Fortunately I don’t get sick often, but admit I’m worst kind of combination of giant baby and asshole when I do, except COVID which just made me hungry and sleepy enough to nap mid-day.

With the anti-malaria meds we have to take, and additional vaccines suggested for other areas we travel, a flu shot might not prove the worst idea…who knows if it will help.

 

[Red Leg]

No. Eating the local food is another issue.

 

[Trogon]

I have taken Imodium before going on the flights to J'Burg and back home, also did the Airborne tablets several days before. Happy to say no "Bubble guts" on four flights so far, also consider what I'm eating before leaving, no respiratory issues either. I may contract a bad cold every several years in general, I believe drinking 100+ proof bourbon is a prophylactic

 

[WAB]

Have not had any issues. I take the normal precautions, but really, I just don’t tend to get sick.

 

[Nicaburns]

I got puked on before takeoff on our flight to Joberg last week… does that count??

 

[V.Veritas]

My brother and his wife both got bactetial pneumonia a month ago on their trip to London .My sisterinlaw stayed in the hospital 3 weeks on their return and is still severly sick .Last year I go really bad sick going and coming back from Alaska took months to get over all the crap I got and about ruined my trip.

My 2 cents.
There are higher chances of catching something in the airport, rather than on the plane. It's simply a numbers game. You are exposed to more people in the airport.
Keep your natural immunity up and you stand a better chances of avoiding complications.

Empirical evidence: I recall that the official narrative in Canada was that the first 2 persons diagnosed with Covid-19 were a couple coming on a direct flight from China. However, none of the other passages came down with it and they were all closely tracked and monitored afterwards.

Also, Health Canada confirmed that the regular face masks don't help with respiratory viruses, but eventually changed their stance due to political pressure. Same thing was written on the boxes of medical grade face masks, but eventually the note disappeared from the new boxes as well.
Get informed. Judge for yourself. Don't blindly trust the legacy media. The science and scientists proved that many of the original ideas pushed by the legacy media were wrong and none of them acknowledged it, retract it, nor apologiesed for spreading the misinformation.

Your health it's your own responsibility. For everyone else it's just business - as it's so clearly illustrated by @Wildwillalaska and his Dallas employer.

 

[RootballExpress]

Before me or my wife fly, the day before we each do a liter IV with added Vitamin B Complex, Vitamin C, Zinc, Amino Acid Blend, and Glutathione. All IV vitamins at max dose of course.

Hydrates and gives optimal vitamin replacements with no waste like all oral vitamins (though we take two oral OTC vitamins daily). All vitamins mentioned above in IV are water soluble, so whatever your body doesn’t want or use is just excreted over the next 5-7 days depending on your metabolism.

Has helped us evade “the plague” when flying and/or traveling with family. Been doing this little cocktail for 5 years now, only at 2-4 times per year too.

 

[Sabre]

Before me or my wife fly, the day before we each do a liter IV with added Vitamin B Complex, Vitamin C, Zinc, Amino Acid Blend, and Glutathione. All IV vitamins at max dose of course.

Hydrates and gives optimal vitamin replacements with no waste like all oral vitamins (though we take two oral OTC vitamins daily). All vitamins mentioned above in IV are water soluble, so whatever your body doesn’t want or use is just excreted over the next 5-7 days depending on your metabolism.

Has helped us evade “the plague” when flying and/or traveling with family. Been doing this little cocktail for 5 years now, only at 2-4 times per year too.

Where are you getting that done?

 

[Spearhead]

I got puked on before takeoff on our flight to Joberg last week… does that count??

Was she hot? It matters

 

[Sabre]

Commercial aircraft employ HEPA filters and use a mix of bleed air and recirculated air. It's cleaner than what's in business establishments and even some homes. My doc says the cooties are always out there. If the immune system is stressed, they take over. Fortunately, never got sick on a 121 flight.

I’d say vaccines and masks…but don’t want to get stoned and banished to the corner.

I get a flu vaccine each year…not because I think I really need to, more because it’s less trouble than listening to my wife (nurse) if I don’t and get sick. I didn’t get one for years, never got the flu.

For a few years right when I started working for a big firm in Dallas, I got one each year religiously. Not because I thought I needed one, but the main partner who I happened to work with said for what they were paying me, he expected I get one. That if I came down with the flu after having the vaccine, he’d cut me some slack, but if I didn’t get it, and caught the flu, he expected my ass to be in the office 10-14 hours a day as if I weren’t sick. They arranged a mobile company to pull into the circle drive of the office building…so with his warning, I smiled and took the elevator down with him. Still never got the flu that I know of.

Fortunately I don’t get sick often, but admit I’m worst kind of combination of giant baby and asshole when I do, except COVID which just made me hungry and sleepy enough to nap mid-day.

With the anti-malaria meds we have to take, and additional vaccines suggested for other areas we travel, a flu shot might not prove the worst idea…who knows if it will help.

The airplanes do use filter and fresh air. But we are also trapped in a small tube with hundreds of people. Filter all you want, and I am glad they do, but you won't escape all the extra germs floating in the air before they go into the HVAC and filters.

Flu shots have been shown to make you more likely to get flu and other respiratory illnesses. They are not successful.

 

[Scott CWO]

Went up to Alaska to guide brown bear hunts on May 6th. The outfitter and the other pilot were coughing when I got to base camp on May 8th and then I was flown to spike camp the same day by Supercub. My first hunter got a 10’2” bear on the second day (May 11th). I was flown back to base camp on the 13th and stayed there until the 19th. I got a sore throat on the 16th and then it went into my sinuses and chest. I took a course of Azithromycin but it didn’t help so I figured it was viral, not bacterial. Just had to deal with it by taking NyQuil and cold tablets. Second hunter got a 10’ bear on the 26th. I got home the 28th, still sick. Head cold finally went away but I’ve been coughing for a month. Finally went to the doctor last week and was put on another antibiotic and steroid, which ended today. Feeing much better but still a slight cough. I hope it’s finally behind me. What a PIA!

Seems like ever since COVID times, there’s more crap going around. Wife and I don’t think we ever got COVID but our grown kids and other people we know got it. Had a friend die. We had Moderna jab because of Botswana elephant hunt so don’t know if that helped or we got COVID but were asymptomatic? But it sure seems like people are getting sick when traveling more than ever.

 

[Sideshow]

It might not be the trips but your own home!
Did you get sick on your return?
If so it maybe this.
So when I was training to become a plumber and heating engineer I did a WRAS course which is water regulations training course.
One of the blocks was about hot water cylinders and bacteria. To cut this long story short. The water in your pipes between the cylinder and your shower can and does grow bacteria when left to sit. When you turn on your taps again after getting off that long flight out comes the bacteria and steam which you inhale. Since knowing this I always let the taps run for a bit just to clear this. Must be doing something because I’ve not gotten sick from a flight for sometime.
Of course this whole theory falls flat if someone is at home still using the system. But try it and see how you get on.
The other thing is hand sanitizer just before you eat. Applied after you hand back the menu!

 

[45-70guy]

I havnt had any shots since high school, no meds, and when it comes to airports and planes I eat very unhealthy.
Never got sick, though the idea crossed my mind.
Back home I know if I just felt slightly off and had a drink the night before it was enough to take my body over the edge the next day.
This has happened a few times in the past, since then I stopped drinking completely, stopped as much sugar intake as a I can reasonably control, and stopped any causal cigar use.
Never used any of that stuff to excess but just to get my body stronger.
I can tell you I’ve seen some nasty and sick people on the plane, and that idea has haunted me as being trapped in your seat you really can’t do anything.

 

[uplander01]

Should be interesting to see what this flood of soccer fans from all over the world bring in this year.

 

[revturbo9967]

my ph got sick around day 2 of my last safari and I did everything trying to fend it away. My throat started getting sore right around the time he dropped me off at the airport. Was sick for a few days after I got home but it wasn’t too bad.

I fly almost every week and I get sick maybe once or twice a year at most, and when I do, it was probably my kids giving it to me.

 

[Russ16]

I fly 3 weeks a month. I’m good for one nasty sinus infection a year. Sometimes it moves into my chest and I get a bad cough. Got the flu for the first time in about 29 years last fall. That wasn’t any fun.