What is ''jet lag''?

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brianinchina2003

It's something spoilt and childish business people and office workers get whenever they have to change sleeping patterns. Anyone who's done shifts has to take it in their stride and work efficiently, performing operations for example, or in my case driving buses and operating cranes with ladles of molten metal.

Amanda

Fatigue and disorientation
Being tired and slightly disoriented for days after arriving, accompanied by a lack of concentration and motivation, especially for any activity that requires effort or skill, such as driving, reading or discussing a business deal. But even simple daily activities can become harder, and one's capacity to truly enjoy a tourist holiday is significantly reduced.

Broken sleep
Crossing time zones can cause you to wake during the night or have difficulty getting to sleep and then want to fall asleep during the day. Your inbuilt circadian rhythms have been disturbed, and it can take many days for the body to readjust to the new time zone. (NASA estimates you need one day for every one-hour time zone crossed to regain normal rhythm and energy levels. So a 5-hour time difference means you will require five days to get back to normal! Can you afford that?)

Confusion, fuzziness
Having to return to check two or three times to see if a hotel room was left locked or unlocked is typical of the effects reported by flight crews experiencing jet lag. Again, not good if you're on a business trip.

Becoming uptight
"Losing it" is another symptom reported by aircrew, which helps explain why longhaul flights get very tedious near the end, and why going through customs and immigration and getting to the hotel often seems like a real drama.

In addition to the above symptoms of jet lag, the syndrome is made worse by some common physical problems caused by being confined in an airliner for hours:

Dehydration
The dry atmosphere aboard aircraft can cause headaches, dry skin and nasal irritation, and make you more susceptible to any colds, coughs, sore throats and flu that are floating round in the aircraft.

Discomfort of legs and feet
Limbs swelling while flying can be extremely uncomfortable, and in some cases may prevent travellers wearing their normal shoes for up to 24 hours after arrival.

General health
A report from the World Health Organisation directly links jet lag with problems of diarrhoea caused by microbiological contamination of water or food, which it says affects about 50% of longhaul travellers. "Factors such as travel fatigue, jet lag, a change in diet, a different climate and a low level of immunity may aggravate the problem by reducing a traveller's resistance and making them more susceptible to this type of infection or poisoning," the report says.

diamond

Jet lag is a temporary disorder that causes fatigue, insomnia, and other symptoms as a result of air travel across time zones

Besides fatigue and insomnia, a jet lag sufferer may experience anxiety, constipation, diarrhea, confusion, dehydration, headache, irritability, nausea, sweating, coordination problems, and even memory loss. Some individuals may report additional symptoms, such as heartbeat irregularities and an increased susceptibility to illness.

A time zone is a geographical region in which every clock keeps the same time. In all, the world has 24 time zones, one for each hour in the day. Each zone runs from north to south in strips of approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) wide. (The actual width of each zone varies to accommodate political and geographical boundaries.)

Jet lag occurs because the body of a traveler cannot immediately adjust to the time in a different zone. Thus, when a New Yorker arrives in Paris at midnight Paris time, his or her body continues to operate on New York time. It is ready to eat, not sleep. As the body struggles to cope with the new schedule, temporary insomnia, fatigue, irritability, and an impaired ability to concentrate may set in. Meanwhile, the bowels may malfunction in reaction to the changed bathroom schedule, and the brain may become confused and disoriented as it attempts to juggle schedules.

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Josh

this usually occurs when flying cross-country...it happens when you cross a time zone and fall into a different time...this can be especially confusing with over seas trips.

All Aces

Its basically tiredness because of not travelling in first class. haha!

Digger

When you go from one time zone to another then you will end up staying awake longer and your body clock needs to adjust to local time.

diffrent time zones.

God,You Are Worthy To Be Praised

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_lag

mistista07

I think its when you're im'ing someone and you wrote something and edned up not sharing it with your online buddy that you're talking to when the convo was going on cause it was longwinded. So ya kept on quick im'ing and somewhere up the road you copied it and pasted it somewhere down the road when the subject had long changed.

Olive

is this like whore bag?

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