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Originally Posted by ngdawg
I'd swell up standing like that for an hour! Then my legs would fall asleep.... Isn't there some sort of correlation between flying and the body's electrolytes that would make that position rather unhealthful for many?
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I was just thinking about that - Deep Vein Thrombis is a concern for people who fly regularly - it seems to occur on long haul flights when people don't move their legs reguarly... i'd imagine standing - it would be a lot easier to move-and since you are not sitting, less pressure on your thighs - so the DVT problem would lessen....
for short distance flights, dvt is not a problem... it's the pressurized cabins,and not moving for a long period of time that causes the problem