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News items on 'Flying With Medical Conditions'
(Daily Express 14/07/2009)
Every year millions of us squeeze ourselves into aeroplanes and sit in confined spaces for hours on end. We suffer sleep deprivation and breathe in air pumped directly from jet engines. Sometimes we drink too much and there's no telling if our near neighbour who is constantly coughing and spluttering is seriously ill or not. Air travel is such a part of our lives Britons will take more than 250million flights this year. Fortunately the chances of being taken ill on board are low.
(Daily Express 07/07/2009)
HOLIDAY doctor Ben MacFarlane flies the world bringing sick Brits home. He tells JOHN TRIGGS about performing life-saving surgery at 35,000 feet. The first six hours of the flight from Arizona to London have been uneventful. It's only when the plane is flying over the Atlantic Ocean that things start to go wrong. One of the patients, a young woman with her leg in a cast, starts groaning. She is sweating heavily and her skin turns grey. She starts screaming that she can no longer feel her feet.
Cabin fever: A bad case of Aerotoxic syndrome?
(The Independent 17/03/2009)
Here we go again, - thought BAe 146 pilot John Hoyte, as the cabin of the aircraft filled with smoke. It was nauseating and made his head spin. But, horrible though it was, it was part of his job. No big deal. Or so he thought until his health began to seriously deteriorate.
'Toxic' cabin air found in new plane study
(Telegraph 13/02/2009)
There are fresh concerns about whether passengers could be inhaling contaminated air on aircraft. 31 swab samples were taken secretly last month from the aircraft cabins of popular airlines. 28 contained high levels of tricresyl phosphate (TCP), an organophosphate contained in modern jet oil, which can lead to drowsiness, headaches, respiratory problems or neurological illnesses.
(BBC 17/12/2008)
I'm in a simulated altitude chamber and they're about to suck most of the air out. It's all perfectly safe - for much of my simulated journey into the skies I'll be wearing a mask that provides air, much like the one fighter pilots wear. But for four minutes, I'll drop that mask and see how it feels to breathe the thin air at 7,600 metres (25,000 feet).
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