In the first of these two scenarios, you have a situation which is equivalent to staying up throughout the night before finally going to bed at what would be 6 a.m. according to your biological clock. In effect therefore, you’re going to bed around nine hours later than normal.
However, in the second example, your biological time when you go to bed will be around 2 p.m. after staying up all night, which means that you 14 hours later going to bed than normal.
The symptoms of jetlag vary from individual to individual, as does the severity of the problem. However, some or all of these ‘symptoms’ could be expected in an individual who is suffering from jet lag:
• Disorientation, inability to concentrate and general mental ‘fuzziness’.
• Becoming unreasonable or irrational far more easily. Once you have suffered through a long flight, the last thing you need to do is fight your way through customs and immigration to then have to find the train station or a taxi to get to your hotel.
• Disturbed and broken sleep. This often serves to increase your irritability and unreasonableness.
• General ennui and fatigue that makes it very difficult to achieve anything meaningful.
• Dehydration that can often cause headaches and make you more susceptible to minor medical problems like colds, flu and other infections.
• Your limbs sometime swell in flight so you might have sore legs or feet.
• Travelling to a distant country can often bring on other minor medical problems like upset stomach or diarrhea, often associated with a change of food and water as well as spending many hours on the plane.
There is no doubt that even seasoned travelers can find it difficult to come to terms with suffering jetlag. Nevertheless, there are quite a few things that you can do in order to minimize the adverse effects that you feel.
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