0 the feeling of tiredness and confusion that people experience after making a long journey by plane to a place where the time is different from the place they left: --
1 the feeling of being tired that you experience after a long flight to a place where the time is different from the place that you left --
2 a feeling of tiredness that a person gets after travelling a long distance through different time zones by plane: --
It is intended for short-term use as a sleep aid, or for alleviating effects of jet lag.
It can also accompany sleep deprivation (often occurring when suffering from jet lag), migraine, epilepsy (especially temporal lobe epilepsy), obsessive-compulsive disorder, stress, and anxiety.
Jet lag refers to the condition sustained by the body after rapid long-distance travel which requires days of adjustment upon return.
Crossing one or two time zones does not typically cause jet lag.
Research currently underway is testing the postulate that cultural jet lag stems from an atypical crystallization of the super-ego during the child developmental phases.
Then when the demand improves there could be a transatlantic service, about 30 hours' travel, sleeping on board and avoiding such discomforts as that awful jet lag.
We have what could be described as an outbreak of jet lag.
One of the characteristics of jet lag is irrational and rude behaviour.