Alcohol In Plane: Many people like to drink alcohol while traveling in a plane. Especially if the journey is of eight to ten hours or more, people drink alcohol in the plane to pass time and to keep themselves busy. But drinking alcohol in a plane can have a bad effect on your heart. A recent research done in this regard said that drinking in a plane is not good for your heart at all. Let’s know what the research says.
Study done at German Aerospace Center
Research conducted by doctors of the Institute of Aerospace Medicine at the Aerospace Center in Cologne, Germany says that if passengers fall asleep after drinking alcohol in the plane, then due to low air pressure in the plane, the blood oxygen in their body decreases and the heart rate increases.
Research says that this does not happen only with weak and old people, it can also happen with young and healthy people in planes. This research published in the Throx Journal says that those who drink alcohol and sleep in planes put a lot of pressure on their hearts.
Heart rate increases due to low air pressure
Research says that the air pressure in a plane flying at an altitude of 6000 to 8000 feet is very low. Due to the dry cabin, the body already starts to lack water. In such a situation, the level of oxygen in the blood starts decreasing and when the person breathes repeatedly, he starts having trouble. In such a situation, if you have consumed alcohol, then the lack of water in your body will increase and the low air pressure will directly affect the heart.
In such a situation, researchers say that please do not consume alcohol while traveling in a plane. They say that although this has little effect on young and healthy people, but when the oxygen saturation drops after drinking alcohol and during that time you are sleeping after drinking alcohol, then your heart rate can increase and this has a direct effect on the heart.
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