Susan's Tip Corner
Germs at 43,000 feet
As winter moves into the scene and the mercury drops, cold and flu season is here folks. It is very easy to contract something in a closed environment. You and your pilots can become ill thus jeopardizing your ability to fly. Blocked ears is just not an option for us right?
Shaking hands with someone and then rubbing your nose, your eyes or making contact with your mouth will spread a cold. We are always tasting things in the galley which is an easy way to transmit germs and become infected. Even with our food protection work gloves on, you can't circumvent the transfer of germs inbetween.
Here are some tips for the aircraft and you:
1. Wash your hands as much as you can and thoroughly. Do this with hot water and use a great deal of friction. "silently" sing though the happy birthday song two times! :) use an antibacterial soap.
2. Keep antibacterial gel in the galley and in your flight bag all of the time.
3. Have Lysol antibacterial kitchen spray in the galley and keep wiping things down.
4. Be sure to use this between trip legs on the seat buckles and the flat end of the buckle.
5. Also, this is very important: spray all of the door knobs on the aircraft and let it sit for about 5 minutes and then wipe them off. This is by the way something every corporate flight attendant should do every leg since some people use the lav and do not wash their hands!
6. If you see that a passenger is ill; sneezing, coughing, etc. It is fine to hand them a box of kleenex and a zip lock bag to put used kleenex into. You should not be touching their used kleenex.
7. These are two great items to have in your flight bag:
Ziacam and Airborne
8. Let us not forget the power of a good pot of home made chicken soup!
Susan C. Friedenberg - President
Corporate Flight Attendant Training
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