How can I avoid motion sickness without taking pills?

Answer 1

Do not read. Keep your head moving. Suck on a boiled sweet.

Answer 2

Motion sickness is caused by a mismatch between what you're seeing with your eyes and feeling through the motion sensors in your ears (your body is confusted and becomes sick). That's why you're especially prone to motion sickness when reading a book in a car. Your eyes see a stationary book in your hands, but your ears feel the motion of the car. To avoid motion sickness without taking medication, do not move your head and look straight ahead in the direction you are traveling. This makes what you're seeing from your eyes correspond with the motion sensed by your ears. If you're in an airplane and can't see ahead, still look straight forward and keep your head still. Do not tilt it from side to side.

Answer 3

Surprisingly since it so common there really is no conclusive evidence on what cause motion sickness. Some believe that its the pressure in your ears, or that fact that your body isnt used to seeing a moving enviroment when the body is still. I used to get motion sickness all the time and reading a book made it worse. See if u can listen to slow paced music and take some rennies(antiacids) before you go off to whereever your going you might feel better, it helped me...

Answer 4

As I do not have this problem, I do not know any specifics. However I do know that when we went on a cruise there were a lot of people that had a small round patch for motion sickness that they put behind their ear.

Answer 5

There's an elastic bracelet that's supposed to relieve motion sickness. It applies pressure on some point on the wrist.

Answer 6

Headphones, since your equillibrium is in your ears, and when it's off you get motion sickness. Also, try to sleep on long trips.

Answer 7

Stop moving.