Restless Legs Syndrome - RLS and Travel
The legs travel by the body clock.
Five hours in an aircraft seat are not a change of place for restless legs but a test: sitting still, displaced dosing times, and travel sickness remedies that act precisely where RLS arises. Symptoms reach their maximum between midnight and one in the morning, and the body clock does not reset at the gate.
This volume takes the journey apart into its components and says for each how well it is supported: the flight, the train, the car, the time shift, the night on the move, altitude, the unfamiliar bed. For dosing there is a plan of its own for journeys east and journeys west.
Out of that comes a travel plan that begins six weeks before departure - with the iron measurement - and ends a week after the return, because the second time shift counts just as much as the first.
WHAT IS IN THE BOOK
- The three forces on every journey: rest, time of day and how they interact
- Why the iron value belongs before the journey and not after it
- The travel kit, papers, prescriptions and quantities in the luggage
- A dosing plan for journeys east and journeys west
- Travel medicines that wake restless legs
- Why RLS is markedly more common at altitude
- When the tablets are missing: what to do then
- The travel plan from six weeks before to one week after
WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
For patients facing a long-haul trip, for anyone who travels often for work, and for relatives planning a journey together who want to know what to watch for.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Volume 43 of 52 in the book series on restless legs syndrome, part "Everyday Life and Self-Help". Every volume can be read on its own. The statements in this volume rest on 127 professional sources, each one listed individually in the reference section.
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