Health risks for a flight attendant?

Question

I mean because of cosmic radiance and also because of a high pressure. And above all, are there ANY risks for her future offspring? Not pregnant YET, but are there any risks for the future in this way if a girl works as a flight attendant?

I didn't mean risks for pregnancy, but for the future offspring. Like, because of radiation, do you risk anything about your FUTURE offspring?

Answer 1

i'm a female flight attendant and obviously have a say on this one:
the pressure in the cabin is not same as the atmospheric pressure. it's modified upto a level of comfort only. of many evidences to this, the most obvious one is the water bottles shrinking out of their shape every flight, and going back to their original shapes on landing.
good news is, that constant exposure to pressure-change does NOT effect the fertility. however it causes some sagging in vagina-muscles in the long term (20-25 years of duty). thats the only gynecologic problem you may encounter. fortunately, this can be avioded with regular vagina-muscle toning exercises.
another health risk is circulation problems, especially in the legs. best way to avoid it is: 1) dont take a hot shower right after a flight 2) rest your legs elevated from your heart (raise them up against the headboard of the bed) after each flight.
finally, long hours of exposure to air-conditioned (artificial) ambience may cause over-drying of skin and cause faster aging of face. its very crucial to moisturise your skin properly. choose a moisturiser with a time-release formula and prefer moisturising foundations. such a foundation will be a baracade between the dry-air in the cabin and your skin. lastly, you may wanna purchase a mineral water mist, which can be applied on full make-up, anytime you have a dry discomfort on your face during the flight.

Answer 2

Just because the cabin is preasurized does not mean that it is high preasure. When the aircraft is at altitude the air preasure outside is less so the cabin is brought back up to normal atmospheric preasure, and preasure is released when the aircraft is brought down again. So no dangers there. the danger would be if the cabin was not preasurized. If the cabin didn't preasurize all the people on board would have their blood boiling in their veins! Now that would be a health hazard.

Cosmic radiation? Obviously someone has fed you a load of bad info, or maybe you are watching too much Sci-fi on TV!

Now pregnancy is a whole different subject! If this woman joins the mile high club then she stands a very good chance of getting pregnant, and maybe a few diseases too!

Answer 3

I found an excellent page on the very subject.
We track dose in millirems here in the US,
to convert millisievert to millirem multiply millisievert values by 100.
Apparently they figure flights below 26,000 feet
won't result in an additional 100 millirem annual dose.

Remember, the average person in the US gets around 300 millirem annualy from all sources.

Look in the guidance notes too.

Answer 4

I would do more research on long time exposure to radiation at high altitudes. The air pressure is just to bring it back to something closer to a ground level pressure.

Answer 5

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