Friday, February 19, 2010

Ways On How To Enjoy Your Vacation Without Sacrificing Your Need To Sleep

By Carl Campbell

One trouble that travel junkies often deal with is the evident lack of rest while traveling. A jammed hostel dorm room, nonstop invitations to party every night or possibly the impulse to discover as much points as you can with the limited time that you have managed to get hold of, are some of the factors that contribute to not having enough rest. Of course you can always work on your time for these socializing activities but always keep yourself in check. Do not forget that one purpose why you head out for a getaway is to relax and enjoy yourself and not to feel beat all the time. Worse is coming to your place with a sleeping disorder and more.

Some factors that increases stress while traveling includes missing your stop, losing your way in a new destination, waiting for delayed flights, losing your luggage, etc. Don't let having trouble sleeping be a part of it! This is something you can control! Follow these guidelines that could help you catch some z's.

1. Clear your nose. Flying can give you some degree of sinus or ear irritation if you often have nasal congestion most probably because of colds and allergies and these can also affect your sleeping schedule all night when these are inclined to cause obstruction on nasal breathing passageways. Prevent nose, ear or sinus problems by clearing up these passageways by using heaps of nasal saline which acts as a mild decongestant which you can prepare yourself or by taking a walk to the pharmacy to have nasal sprays or decongestant tabs.

2. Fight the urge to eat before going to sleep. Although this may be seen as a familiar habit even if you're on a trip or only staying in at home, this could probably surely destroy your intention to have a peaceful sleep. Apart from gaining more pounds on you, when your stomach is full and you on your back, some of the stomach acids or juices regurgitate into your throat and cause inflammation and irritation. This will ruin your slumber and lessen the possibilities of nipping in undisturbed. It is urged to eat your food 3-4 hours before bedtime.

3. Don't even think about drinking yourself to sleep. Many people will immediately think that binge drinking would help them to have an improved rest as it conks them out but consequently, you don't get to rest early. And you have to know that it weakens throat muscles and when you happen to rest on your back, the collapse of your tongue would force it backwards obscuring your airway passageways. This would deprive your brain of oxygen. Oftentimes, when your body turns too limp to move a muscle, the air that comes in would be stopped and cause you to stop breathing if you happen to trip flat on your face. Won't that instill enough fear in you? This is not to keep you from having fun on an occasional pub crawling; you can have a time for everything but see to it that know your limits.

4. Try to drift off early. It's not easy, yes. For self-confessed insomniacs, it's totally hard to work that out. But if you're just influenced to stay up late and maximize your time while on a vacation, fight that urge and make up a schedule of things to do then manage your time.But you must remember that having your meals on time and calling it a day before the break of dawn permit you to have a normal sleep duration that your frail body needs. Try not to shift and confuse your body clock by going to bed late and jolting up from sleep much later the next day. It will be hard to return to your usual sleeping pattern particularly when you shift through altering time zones.

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