A study published last Monday, June 3, by a renowned magazine revealed that drinking alcohol on plane trips is widely harmful to healthDue to the low pressure that exists in the cabins that can cause dehydration and a drastic increase in heart rate.
The report showed that, due to the low pressure that exists in airplane cabins, when a person falls asleep After drinking alcohol, oxygen in the blood usually decreases drasticallyat the same time that heart rate increaseseven in the people who are young and they enjoy a privileged state of health.
The researchers expected that alcohol would have a noticeable effect on people with low blood pressure, but they admitted that They were perplexed “to see that the effect was so strong”according to the information shared by the media NBCNews. “Please do not drink alcohol while on a plane,” they later insisted.
People who consumed alcohol experienced a notable drop in their blood oxygen saturation along with an increase in heart rate.
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Along these lines, the co-author of the study, Eva-Maria Elmenhorst, associate of the department of sleep research and human factors at the Institute of Aerospace Medicine of the German Aerospace Center in Cologne, explained that although many young people will not experience damage to their heart when drinking alcohol on a plane, in others “the decrease in oxygen saturation along with the increase in heart rate could exacerbate pre-existing medical conditions“.
How was the study on alcohol on the plane developed?
To prepare the report that determined that drinking alcohol on a plane can be widely harmful to health, researchers randomly assigned 48 healthy adults between eighteen and forty years old to two different groups.. One group went to a sleep lab that had air pressure at sea level, while the other slept in an altitude chamber that mimicked the air pressure recorded on flights at cruising altitude.
From each group, twelve people They slept four hours after consuming the equivalent of two cans of beer or two glasses of winewhile the another twelve slept without consuming any type of alcoholic beverage. After a two-day break, the researchers reversed the procedure to verify the information recorded.
The report showed that people who drank alcohol before falling asleep in the chamber experienced a decreased blood oxygen saturation at 85 percent, and his heart rate increased on average to almost 88 beats per minute.
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