How Do I Combat Jetlag?

Answer 1

you can combat jet lag by a number of reasons,these 5 should help!
1)set your clock to the country's normal time-this will get you use to the daylight hours.
2)go out in the day light-this will get you used to the sunrise and sunset.
3)don't sleep until night time-although you may feel as if you want to sleep,if you do this you will get used to the pattern of the night and day.
4)drink plenty of water- this will rehydrate you and make you feel better.
5)eat a good quality,balanced meal and eat and drink regularly-this will get you used to the meal times and get you used to eating normally and not at a restaurant.

Answer 2

Well what I usually do is, if I arrive to my final destination in the morning then I take a sleeping pill during the long flight and sleep as much as I can so that when I arrive at the destination, I am not tired all day and have time to do stuff. If i arrive there at night, I usually force myself to stay awake in the airplane, drink a lot of water, and when I get to the destination I sleep in until like 1pm and I feel refreshed and good as new. I guess it is different with different people. I've had times where I would go to bed at 7pm and wake up at 5am or 6am and I would do that for about a week.

Answer 3

Believe it or not, in a particularly complex contract with an even more difficult client, I used to COMMUTE from Britain to Central America! I'd complete a phase of operations and be released from contract on the Friday and find, when I got home in the wee small hours of Saturday, that my presence would be required, in theatre, for the planning of the "next phase of operations".

This would entail immediate research and collation of facts/resources, then a Sunday night flight back to the client (average travel time: 14 hours).

Obviously I needed to be resistant to Jet Lag. (I was 57 years old at the time).

My remedy was large doses of Vitamin C, daily, whilst travelling. I would also sleep for as long as possible during the flights. Dehydration can be a problem, so I would up my fluid intake by 100%. This meant regular trips for relief, so I always booked an aisle seat.

Answer 4

I travel all the time for work and usually to all different parts of the world, despite what they say what i do is set my watch for the time zone I am going and have a few drinks and try and sleep about eleven at night in the time zone i am heading for bit messed up when i am flying back to Asia from europe as flights leave early in the morning asian time. Tried the water stuff never works, aisle seat always few drinks and sleep as much as possible and if possible the same time zone as you are going.

Answer 5

Napping little and often, helps.
Going to LA from ireland I snoozed on the plane over the US and landed at 11pm local time then snoozed 3 until 8am.
Anytime after that I felt like I was lagging I would drink lots of water and a small piece of dark chocolate and a piece of fruit(as advised by another long distance flyer).
You re adjust pretty soon.
Same on the way back.

Answer 6

Depends were you are flying from and too. If you are flying from the U.K You could keep your watch set at your local departure time and keep to that time i.e New York when it is 8am with your watch you would need to have your breakfast at 3am and if you normally go to bed at say 11 pm you would be going to bed at 6pm New York time. This was done has an experiment and worked New York being a 24 hour city you do not actually miss anything

Answer 7

The main trick as everyone will tell you is to get onto the schedule of the country that you land in as quickly as possible.
Not always easy. When I travelled to Auckland form London I had not slept for 36 hours and landed at 6:30am. It was difficult but i did not go to sleep until the evening. It works.
Even if you have to go walking in the city as I did, just get into the local time.
Best wishes and enjoy your travel ls.

Answer 8

I suffer terribly and as i do flights that last 24 hours fairly regularly i think i've learnt the secret now. it's water. I only learned it by accident once when i had to fly with a kidney infection. I drank water constantly (and i mean constantly). it was the only time I barely noticed my jet lag.

you should accept the jet lag 'friendly' meal if they offer one, or if not you can avoid the meals they offer and snack on unsalted nuts or fruit if possible. avoid salted nuts, alcohol or anything heavy.

try to sleep or rest in tune with the patterns of the destinations you are headed for and set your watch to the destination as soon as you get on the plane, in preparation.

drink as much water as you can handle (an aisle seat is advisable if you are doing this and the flight is crowded!

walk around as much as possible and do exercises to keep the blood flowing.
wehn you arrive at destination do NOT sleep unless it is time to sleep. try to stay up and go to bed only when it is the 'new ' bed time otherwise it will take ages to adjust. this is particlarly important. good luck!

Answer 9

When you get to your destination you should straight away get used to the local time. For example if you arrive at lunch time treat the day as you would at home and go to bed when the locals go to bed. When you come home you should get used to the time straight away. Don't try and get extra sleep, stay awake until bedtime even though you will feel really spaced out and tired. The way to beat jet-lag is always adjust straight away to the local time where you are. Usually coming back home is the worst time for jet-lag but if you get into you normal routine straightaway you will have no more than 1 day of slight jet-lag.

Answer 10

My experience with it is you have got to get yourself to throw up. That might sound some what extreme but you instantly feel better afterward. Try to do it before bed whenever that is for you so you can rest afterwards, cause it will take a lot out of you. Other than that that drinking lots of water answer above sounds like a great idea as well! Keep hydrated.