Protect Yourself from Airborne Germs While Traveling

According to the New York Times, almost 90 percent of traveling Americans identify germs as a real concern when they are flying. However, sanitizing products can be hard to come by once you take to the air.

It’s not always easy to tell how affective these products are – but the In-Flight Insider has one that may just make a difference.

Nozin is an antiseptic solution that may help protect you from catching a cold or other airborne viruses while in-flight. Nozin comes either in a small bottle with cotton swabs or as individual, single-use swabs with the solution already inside.

The antiseptic it contains is vitamin E, jojoba oil and orange oil. This initially left me a bit apprehensive about putting it into my nose. Would I still smell this orange oil hours later? As it turned out, the Nozin is only applied just inside the tip of the nostril. There was a fresh orange scent, but it wasn’t overpowering and didn’t last too long.

Does it work? It’s hard to say. I didn’t get sick, but maybe I wouldn’t have gotten sick at all anyway. It seems to me that this is another simple precaution we can take—along with using hand sanitizer—to protect us against all those germs when we travel.