Quote From: annieorwellI have a total of 8 hours of travel planned in 2 weeks with my 3 year old daughter...we deliberately planned a red-eye flight because I know she'll sleep on the plane and it won't really seem like much of anything to her, take off and landing might peak her interest, but I know she'll just crash after about 15 minutes of altitude flying.
The antihistamine is interesting...do you think that would relieve sinus/ear pressure in a preemptive way or something?
For myself, what it does is open up the tubes in my ears, to keep the liquid from building up behind the ear drum and causing pressure and pain.
For most people, swallowing and chewing gum are the curative, my best fring swears by" wrigley's juicy fruit".
The tubes in my ears are too small to accomodate any changes in air pressure, or infection, colds etc. the last cold I had, just getting over it, caused a secondary ear infection that ruptured my ear drum, the antihistamines didn't work then.
For it to be effective for me, I have to take it one hour before the flight.
The "Red Eye" is a good idea when travelling with young children (most of the time ), they tend to fall asleep, and do not disturb others as long as they are used to sleeping through noise.
I'm getting a chuckle out of the Baby Bashing, and nothing being said about the adults who might be a bit too loud or boistrous.
