When was the last time you boarded a plane? Do you recall experiencing any uncomfortable side effects during or after a long-distance flight? No, nothing dramatic like a sudden bout of amnesia and being blissfully unaware of who you are. Or a panic attack because you were strangely unable to peel off your graduated compression stockings. No, something less disturbing and something more familiar like a sore throat perhaps, a stuffy nose, dry, irritated, eyes and itchy skin or raw, red knuckles and chapped lips and hands?
If you have been a passenger on a transcontinental flight and you have experienced one, or two – or if you have been especially unlucky even all six of these symptoms – then the chances are that you were suffering from the effects caused by low levels of humidity in the cabin of the aircraft that you were flying with.
