00:00Planning an unforgettable road trip probably doesn't have a large amount of breaks on your list,
00:05unless you have a small bladder or very hungry children in the back.
00:09However, according to HuffPost, the one very important task that can't be overlooked when road tripping is to take breaks.
00:17A lot of them sitting in the car for long periods of time can disrupt blood flow in the body,
00:22leading to dehydration and risk of blood clots.
00:25Dr. Vladimir Lakta, an assistant professor of medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, says,
00:32riding in the car for a prolonged uninterrupted period of time in a seated position
00:37increases the risk of developing deep vein thrombosis, DVT,
00:41a kind of blood clot that forms in the deep veins of the legs.
00:46You should plan to get out of the car and move around every one to two hours,
00:50if your trip is set to last for at least four hours.
00:54A Yale medicine vascular surgeon, Dr. Britt H. Tonneson, says,
00:58a DVT can migrate and move to the main arteries in the lungs,
01:03and be warned, anyone can get a blood clot.
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