To thin the blood in flight, doctors recommend drinking tomato or orange juice. The therapist spoke about this.
The doctor recommends using several drinks for prevention.
“You need to drink plain water on the plane, as well as tomato or orange juice. For prevention, thin the blood. Tomato juice is a natural antiplatelet agent that does this. And not salty. Tomato juice is for those who suffer from diabetes, and orange juice is for those who do not have this disease. And then you need to distract yourself with some good thoughts on the plane, ”the doctor emphasized.
At the same time, the doctor does not recommend eating before the flight so as not to additionally burden the body.
“You don’t need to eat before the flight. This measure is necessary so that there is no load on the body. You can take an aspirin tablet or antiplatelet drugs. As well as your drugs, which you always drink. And I would not advise drinking alcohol, because all sorts of unforeseen reactions of the body to turbulence and so on can occur because after all, the height is high, ”said the physician.
The therapist also advised people with chronic diseases to check their blood for clotting and glucose levels before long flights.
“Before a long flight, I believe that people with chronic diseases still need to go through the most minimal set of laboratory tests. At least donate blood for a general analysis. You need to look at the clotting system, and also check indicators such as sugar, and blood glucose. Because in flight, its level can rise, after all, nervous stress, ”the doctor believes.