Jet Lag 時差
- travelling disconnect us from our usual environment
- our bodies' bio-clock will be unsynchronized with the local
environmental clock
- unsynchronization make our body susceptible to sickness such
as nose allergy, skin allergy, flu, cough, stomach pain,
insomnia ...
Double Jet Lag
- Day n Night time jet lag due to travelling between different
time zones
- Hot n Cold season jet lag due to travelling between northern
and Southern Hemisphere
Day n Night time jet lag
- easily affect the sleeping time and meal time
- causing insomnia, sleepiness, burp, stomach pain, bowel disorder...
- prevention technique:
- sleep only when it is local time for sleep
- most important sleeping time is 11pm-3am of local time
- wakeup early, never sleep pass 11am in the morning
- afternoon nap should lean back on a chair, never face down on the desk,
never lie down in bed, keep it less than 20m
- eat when it is local meal time but not too much, eat some
ginger during or after meal if you feel stomach uneasy
- eat snack only when you feel hungry during home meal time to prevent
stomach from over acidic
- Chinese: Have a good breakfast, a full lunch, a small dinner.
早餐要食得好，午餐要食得飽，晚餐要食得少。
- English: For breakfast, eat like a king; for lunch, eat like a lord; for
dinner, eat like a pauper.
- European: Share your breakfast, keep the lunch to yourself, give the
dinner to your enermy.
Hot n Cold season jet lag 季差
- easily affect the normal activities of the lung and pores
- causing nose allergy, skin allergy, cold, flu,
cough...
- prevention technique depends on the direction of
change
- Hot > Cold
- before trip and start of trip:
- reduce consumption of HOT food: chili, beef, lamb, curry,
prawn, mango, pineapple
- increase consumption of COLD food: water melon,
yoghourt, sour taste food, vinegar, honey
- Increase consumption of Decending food: almond or almond
drinks
- no consumption of Raising food: ginger, white
pepper, chicken
- hot short shower in morning, warm short or no shower
in the evening; with good air circulation; never bath
- try to use less heater, make sure fresh damp air is
circulated, drink more honey water for dry throat and dry skin
- exercise less and sweat less
- Cold > Hot
- before trip and start of trip: the opposite to Hot >
Cold
- reduce consumption of COLD food: water melon,
yoghourt, sour taste food, vinegar, honey
increase consumption of Raising food:
ginger, white pepper, chicken
- increase consumption of HOT food: chili, beef, lamb, curry,
prawn,
- no consumption of Decending food: almond
- hot long shower or bath in morning, warm short or
no shower in the evening
- exercise more and sweat
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