How Do You Prevent Motion Sickness?

Question

I'm actually asking for a friend. She and her husband get motion sickness. Is there a way to prevent it?

Answer 1

There are several things they can do. First of all, eating dry salty food like crackers or pretzels will help. Ginger is good too. I will keep ginger snaps with me. If you watch the horizon that helps. Dont read or keep your eyes down. There are wrist bands that are supposed to help that you can get in drug stores. Non-drowsy dramamine is helpful. If none of these things work there is a scopalomine patch that your doctor can prescribe. They work great!

Answer 2

Take a good brand of motion sickness pill, like Bonine.
No side effects. Over the counter (no prescription needed) and fairly inexpensive. Available at any grocery store or druggist.
One little pill a day and even my husband, who gets violently green and seasick has no trouble. (he still avoids roller coasters, though).

Some people swear by ginger capsules ginger tea, or those wrist bands with hard bumps that fit on a pressure point, but I don't have experience with them. We've found most other brands of motion sickness pills make you either drowsy, drymouthed, or give an upset stomach (the patch behind the ear does all three and is expensive).

Sometimes people have lingering, marginal inner ear infections that affect their balance and produce motion sickness. It might be good to be checked out by an ear-nose-throat doctor just in case, or your regular physician could eliminate that possibility.

Answer 3

The easiest way would probably be to just fall asleep before you get the chance to get motion sickness. Before I board a long flight, I usually don't sleep the night before. This way, I feel really tired once on the plane and usually sleep for most of the trip, thus minimising the effects of jet lag.

Answer 4

Bonine - available at drugstores over the counter. Take one tablet the day before the trip and another about an hour before departure. These don't make you drowsy like Dramamine can. I had a rough boat ride to the Great Barrier Reef and enjoyed the bumps & spray while those around me were feeding the fish (vomiting over the rail).

Answer 5

You can eat sth which contains ginger. Another way-try not to look through the window if you're not sitting next to the driver. Its the best way to see the horizon before you not on your left or right side. The motion without moving(your legs) affects your brain and causes labyrinthine disfunction.

Answer 6

Although it wasn't motion sickness for me, I got those Sea Band wristbands when I was pregnant, and they helped a great deal in bringing my nausea down to a reasonable level. They have plastic buttons that hit a pressure point in your wrist to inhibit nausea in some people.

Answer 7

When I was pregnant I used to get really nauseous. The only thing that helped me was something called Sea Bands. It's a wrist band with a round hard plastic piece on it that sits on one of the pressure points in the wrist. You wouldn't think something so silly looking would work but it sure does.

Answer 8

Acupuncture might help in some cases. It seems like getting worst at the first time, but after some time of cures process, the pain will gone gradually.

Find the acupuncture expert in your area and discuss with them.

Answer 9

Rose : the best idea for your friends while travling ! yes there is
an type of pill that they can wear behind thier ear it's called
"Anti sickness Patch because those are brought over counter
at pharmincy ! refer http://www.anti-sicknesspatch.com

Answer 10

Gravol
it's non perscription
works great