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Brush your teeth using bottled water.
When on the road, brush your teeth using bottled water to avoid contamination from unsafe tap water. Sanitize your toothbrush and other cosmetic brushes by running them through a dishwasher cycle upon your return home. Or use 1 part bleach to 3 parts boiling water and raise well with clean water. This also helps kill bacteria and germs. Replace your toothbrush often when traveling internationally.
Jet lag.
Articles abound on ways to alleviate jet lag, but all advise to drink plently of water (for each hour of flight time, the body loses 8 ounces of fluid), avoid caffeinated, alcoholic and carbonated beverages. Resist salty foods or foods high in sugar. Every hour get up and move about the aircraft. It's difficult to adjust our internal clocks, but by also using a natural remedy called No-Jet-Lag the uncomfortable effects of jet lag can be avoided or greatly reduced.

Jet lag can spoil a trip. My husband and I were so looking forward to our first trip to Hawaii. What we hadn't anticipated was spending two days out of our five day trip flat on our backs in bed too sick to move or enjoy our fabulous Waikiki view. We thought we had the flu. Our symptoms included; dizziness, headache, lost of appetite, fatigue, body aches, and even swollen feet. We heard of jet lag of course, but hadn't actually understood it. It's not to be taken lightly and avoided at all costs. Now when we travel, we bring our own purified water and drink a quart for every hour we fly.Clarie M., Grosse Pointe, MI



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