Health best buys for long-haul flights

Expats visiting family or taking a Christmas holiday this December should pack much more than just the presents. A few health heroes can help protect you from illness on long-haul flights

The confined cabin of an aircraft provides the ideal environment for transmitting airborne diseases such as the common cold. With your fellow passengers making up to 400 potential sources of infection at such close quarters, the chances of the infection being spread via the re-circulated air are relatively high.

According to the Common Cold Centre at Cardiff University, experiments on exposing uninfected volunteers to the common cold infection have shown that the chances of catching a cold are directly related to the length of exposure. Therefore, you are much more likely to catch a cold on a long-haul flight to the Caribbean than on a short hop to the Med. Read more at: :http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/expathealth/8889129/Health-best-buys-for-long-haul-flights.html