Flying After a Recent Illness

A patient needs to be 200% sure of his medical condition before he decides to travel after a surgery or illness.

Consulting a doctor and taking his approval is very essential for a patient, before planning any travel. He or she needs to instruct you on any precautions that you need to take and the essential medication that you need to carry with you. A long distance medical transportation services company will be able to guide you on the minimum time gap that a patient must keep between a medical condition and his next travel.

Let’s read more about these essential time gaps –

1. In a major chest and middle ear surgery, a patient can only travel after ten days.

2. For all cataract surgeries or corneal lasers he can travel only after a day’s rest.

3. In a surgery for removal of tonsils, the patient can only travel after six days.

4. For an appendectomy or a key hole surgery, a patient can travel after four days only.

5. A patient who has undergone an angioplasty can travel only after three to five days.

6. All patients recovering from a heart surgery are advised to travel only after months rest.

7. Patients who are recovering from a heart attack should travel only after seven days, if necessarily required.

8. People suffering from angina attacks can fly anytime, but need to keep their medication handy.

9. Asthma patients can travel at will, but need to carry their inhalers with them.

10. People who are recovering from a stroke need to rest for three days at least.

11. Patients suffering from epilepsy should not travel within 24 hours of a fit.

12. People suffering from any kind of sinus or ear infections should avoid travelling till the time the infection is thoroughly healed.