- People do some strange things on airplanes,
some of them with medical reason,
some not at all.
This is gonna get weird.
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- Assault flight attendants? Go to prison.
That's the message being sent by a Florida judge
after sentencing Maxwell Barry to 60 days behind bars.
- Yeah, because aren't they federal employees
and deserve to be protected,
especially given that they're there in the air.
There's no police force there to secure the person.
- Video of Maxwell Barry howling
while duct taped to an airline seat
went viral in August of 2021.
- They've gotta be careful in situations like that
'cause if someone's inebriated,
they may already have a level of respiratory depression
and may be likely to vomit.
If you're covering their mouth like that,
granted they might be spitting and biting all these things,
you just gotta be careful and really watch them
the entire time
'cause it's easier for 'em to pass out
and you think, oh, they're just drunk,
they're falling asleep.
But then you could actually be trapping
vomit in their mouth,
therefore they choke on it,
they could lose their life.
- And we told you all about people bringing
all kinds of emotional support animals on airplanes,
but this is a new one.
The FAA has just cleared miniature horses to fly.
- When I was getting paperwork for Bear to fly,
I actually read that like peacocks
and miniature horses were allowed.
- The 33 year old customer service agent
suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.
She's allergic to dogs, so she's bonded with a horse.
Abria made her way through O'Hare Airport
or should we call it O'Mare Airport
to meet up with her aunt-
- Well, now the rules have changed.
They don't allow emotional support animals.
They allow psychiatric service animals
that have to be trained for a given purpose.
For some individuals who suffer with debilitating anxiety,
panic attacks,
if the animal is truly trained,
it makes sense that they're allowed.
And yet, I would see people who claim
that they have service animals
that they are visibly not trained.
And this is because there are no agencies
that certify the animals to be true service animals
or emotional support animals at the time.
This happened on my flight.
What's happening?
Is she washing her underwear on a drinking water glass?
No, come on.
This is a joke.
This is a a skit for TikTok or something?
No, come on.
Sam, is it real? - I have no idea.
- When a random passenger falls asleep on your shoulder.
Honestly, I think when people invade your space,
I wanna correct them,
but I don't know the correct way to correct them.
I will say I don't think airplane pillows do anything.
- Neck pillow!
- Nah. - Yeah!
- Especially for those like myself who has a longer neck
or Bear.
But for those who need a little more support,
there's this pillow that I purchased one time
called the turtle pillow
and that one kind of acts almost like a neck brace
but is still breathable.
That one's really good at giving support.
- Attention, is there a doctor on the plane?
There is a passenger in need of assistance.
Attention, is there a different doctor on the plane?
- I don't think even a radiologist
is the worst type of doctor to have on a plane.
I think like radiologist's up there,
pathologist, dermatologist.
Even in my situation when I had the airplane emergency
and the young gentleman went into anaphylaxis
and I had to react,
I'm pretty sure there was a plastic surgeon on board too
and he came over and stated that he's available for help,
but there was really no value to that.
- Commercial planes typically have lower humidity
than the Sahara Desert,
which dehydrates you a whole lot faster than normal.
- Yeah, that's true.
- Liquid IV hydrates you two times faster than water alone
and they also include electrolytes.
- Don't listen to those claims,
the two times faster than the speed of.
Just drink water.
Yes, if you're gonna be sweating a lot profusely
or you have something going on
that you need extra electrolytes,
maybe this is an option.
Even as an athlete,
I've used liquid IV before,
but I'm not gonna tell you
that it works two X faster than water.
Like, some of these claims are just marketing claims
that blow this thing out of proportion.
Whereas I would've supported a product like this
for someone who's an athlete
who's losing a lot of fluids
and needs replenishment of their electrolytes.
- Drink one of these packets every two hours in flight.
- Okay, not every two hours.
That is excessive.
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- Video from a passenger shows Salt Lake City Airport Police
removing an autistic teen and her family
from a United Airlines flight last Tuesday.
- Why?
- Her mother says Juliet is a picky eater,
and after asking a flight attendant
if she could purchase a hot meal from first class,
she was told no.
This is how she expresses frustration.
- You feel frustrated?
- See, I think if a passenger on a plane
asks for accommodation
that's important for medical reasons,
not just for their comfort
or because they're trying to get more benefits
out of the airline,
I think the airline should do everything
in their power to accommodate,
especially because it's gonna impact everyone
on that flight.
- United Airlines said, "The crew made the best decision
for the safety and comfort of all of our customers
and elected to divert to Salt Lake City
after the situation became disruptive."
- It's hard for me to say 'cause I wasn't there,
but hearing what the mother's describing
and she's caring for a child with autism
who has behavioral issues,
but not by choice, because of a disability,
I think it's unfair for an airline to say
this passenger is so unruly.
I would love to see the statements
of the passengers around them
to see what they have said in a situation like that.
- The woman whose seat was turned into a punching bag
mid-flight is speaking out today.
- Why is Inside Edition covering
all of the airplane incidents?
- It happened on a flight from New Orleans to Charlotte
when Wendy Williams reclined her seat shortly after takeoff.
Williams says she has a fused vertebrae
that gives her a lot of pain.
- I mean, fused vertebrae or no fused vertebrae.
Everyone's seat has the same functionality
and it's within the passenger's right to use it.
And you can't say to someone else that they can't use it.
You can ask politely for a reason
and see if they were willing to accommodate,
but that's not,
you can't just punch someone.
- We asked Inside Edition Instagram followers
what they thought.
71% were on her side, 29% supported the dude.
- What?
Who supported the dude?
What are you supporting?
- There's a huge movement out there of people
who believe it is immoral to recline your seat ever.
- That doesn't make any sense.
- So you're making it known right now,
Doctor Mike supports reclining seats.
- I support that
as long as everyone has the capacity to do so
and it's not bothering you medically.
You better get used to reclining seats.
Apparently if you fly while sick,
the ear pressure thing can cause an ear infection.
And then if you blow your nose with an ear infection,
you can rupture your eardrums.
Okay, what you hear and feel when you're flying,
that popping sensation is really your eustachian tube
which connects to your nasal passageways,
your sinuses, and goes to your ear.
And that essentially acts as a pressure equalizer.
Now, when the pressure is not equalized,
you have some popping sensations
and sounds coming from there.
If you're already predisposed to getting sick
and now the eustachian tube isn't draining as well,
it can create a propensity for developing an ear infection.
And part of developing an ear infection
is having a bulging tympanic membrane
and then having an extra pressure in there
from blowing your nose
or just the infection getting real bad
is you could have a ruptured tympanic membrane.
Sometimes people do this when they have Q-tips
and they do it accidentally
and that's a really big problem.
Uh-oh, uh-oh, the head nod.
Oh no, the feet up in the air.
No, don't do that.
That's just unnecessary.
Oh, those those are dirty feet.
- My eyes!
- I'm really hopeful that's just the fuzz off the sock
and nothing more.
This isn't a medical exam.
Like, you're not supposed to
like throw your feet out like this.
No way.
This person is shaving a callous on the plane.
Not only is that hygienically not friendly,
there's no bag on the floor
to at least catch the dry skin that's about to flake off.
But then also the fact that the area is not clean,
you can actually get a mean infection.
The passenger next to me on a plane painting her toes.
That's a skill level.
Oh, that shoe nail polish does have an offending odor
and can actually create asthma attacks
in individuals who are susceptible.
Not only is this young man walking barefoot on an airplane,
he had the nerve to go into the bathroom.
Yeah, that's not ideal.
Bathrooms are really dirty.
Remember when you pee or poop into a toilet
and then you flush,
aerosolized particles pop out and go all over the place.
And imagine in an airplane bathroom how small that is
and how often it's used on a long flight,
there's a ton of that bacteria around.
- The young woman was a passenger on a China Airlines flight
from Taiwan to Los Angeles when she went into labor.
As the plane was diverted to Anchorage, Alaska,
the baby was born before the plane could land.
- Wow.
- But the mother, identified only as Jean,
has reportedly been denied entry to the US.
- Remember, airlines set certain policies as you see here
of when a woman who is pregnant is able to fly.
Reason being is we're trying to avoid situations like this
that require emergency landings
because when a baby is born over international waters,
I don't know where that baby is technically born,
in international waters,
in the country they're going to,
the country they left from?
What are the rules here?
- When the woman boarded the plane,
she allegedly concealed the fact
she was so far along in her pregnancy.
The reason?
She wanted the baby born in the US,
automatically making the child a US citizen.
- I believe that's part of the rule, right?
If you have a child born in the US,
the child is automatically a citizen.
- Everything went medically very smoothly in the air,
but that's not always the case.
- Yeah, it could go wrong in a big way
where you need tools, medications, fluids,
blood transfusions,
things that you don't have access to in an airplane kit
as I found out at 30,000 feet
that there were no EpiPens on the plane that I was on.
Whoa.
- Oh my god.
- A tarantula on a plane.
Remember what we said about spiders
on the previous episodes.
There are very few spiders in this world that are deadly.
And in the United States, in North America,
there's been like zero fatalities from spiders.
So as long as you get adequate medical care,
you'll be okay.
- You might wanna think about ordering something
other than coffee or tea.
- Ooh.
- This flight attendant is sharing secrets
that airlines won't tell you.
- Why?
- The thing about the coffee and the tea
is that the pipes are rarely cleaned.
- Why are they rarely cleaned?
Why don't we clean them?
- Airlines are only required to disinfect
and flush the water tanks four times a year.
- Ew.
- That's not sanitary.
FAA, can we take action on that?
Do I have to contact Chuck Schumer like I did with EpiPens
and get planes to clean out their pipes?
- Start by cleaning your handles.
- I see people do this a lot,
especially post-pandemic.
- And you wanna not only do the surface of the tray,
but I love to do the back of the seat.
- So I wouldn't necessarily give this advice as a doctor.
I would think about it more holistically and say,
look, if you're immunocompromised,
absolutely you should be taking as much care as possible.
If you have an immunocompromised family member,
I understand.
I think in fact, us trying to be too clean
and destroy all the bacteria
has actually created a whole set of other problems for us
through the hygiene theory.
- I wanted to see how dirty these aircraft seats really are.
Why are there so many different types of bacteria
on this one seat alone?
- If we swab our arms, our seats,
our mice, our keyboards,
studies have found public library keyboards
have poop and pee on them.
The bacteria are everywhere
and we've learned to live in union with bacteria.
That doesn't mean that you should stick your fingers
in your mouth
and start risking yourself getting sick unnecessarily.
But the idea is if you're going to eat
or do something to touch your face,
wash your hands.
What is happening here?
Is this acro yoga in flight?
Oh my god.
I'm all for people getting mobile on planes,
stretching out, getting the circulation moving,
but what is the purpose of this?
Why stretching and mobility is important on airplanes
is because blood begins to pool in your lower extremities,
your legs.
And when blood pools and you don't take steps
and you don't move,
therefore, you don't contract the muscles,
the blood kind of stagnates
in your lower extremities due to gravity.
When it stagnates,
you have a higher propensity
for creating a clot in that area.
What the problem is is if that clot dislodges
and then travels and gets lodged in your lungs,
now this is a life or death situation.
And this is especially true for individuals
who have high inflammatory states,
autoimmune conditions, cancers,
already preexisting heart disease,
older age, dehydration.
- On this episode of what people do on planes.
- And then some people just have really great flexibility.
That's a negative straight leg raise.
A straight leg raise is something that we do
in the medical community
as one of the tests for sciatic pain.
- Just what you need on a long flight home,
a ponytail flopping into your space
and obstructing your TV screen.
- I mean, if this happened by accident,
let's not be rude to people.
- The photo was posted by
Boston Globe Columnist Dante Ramos.
Congrats to the pony-tailed young woman in seat 22B.
You've invented a whole new way to be awful at 35,000 feet.
- If she did it on purpose 'cause they wanted to be rude
and they threw their hair back like that,
yes, rude, awful.
But if they just accidentally sat down and didn't realize,
you could just point it out to them.
- Attention Southwest Airlines going to Las Vegas,
can I get oh yeah!
- Oh yeah!
- Such an awkward.
Where did that start from?
Someone needs to tell me in the comments.
- Most people who experience motion sickness as children
grow out of it an adulthood,
but there are a lucky few of us who simply do not.
- Over-activation from the semi-circular canals
can actually cause severe motion sickness
where people are vomiting profusely
from just being on a boat
or having their vision not match what they're experiencing,
which is what I experienced when I was flying in F16.
- First up, we have Dramamine original.
Yes, this one does make you drowsy,
but I do have an overnight flight
so I'm gonna use that to my advantage.
- That does help with some motion sickness.
- Now, the motion sickness pills are not infallible,
so we also have Dramamine Nausea
for when my stomach already hurts.
- There's also other things that we do
like scopolamine patches behind the ear.
There are some like wristbands
and things that you can use that have acupressure points
that have some success.
I wouldn't use them as a first line treatment,
but as like an alternative non-medication thing,
it is an option.
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