![]() ![]() Pulling over every 30 minutes for a five minute stretch of the legs can be the simplest and quickest way to resolve motion sickness. ![]() The best and surest way to keep symptoms at bay (and alleviate symptoms your child may be experiencing) is to stop travelling regularly. Once your child begins to feel motion sick, it can be hard for them to recover. Instead eat a light meal of plain food at least 30 minutes before travelling. While eating a big meal before leaving home isn’t recommended, if you know you or your child may fall victim to motion sickness, travelling on an empty stomach can have the same result. All drugs should be taken 30 minutes before travelling commences. There are also drugs that can be prescribed for serious sufferers of travel sickness but generally the OTC drugs will do the trick. These drugs can both prevent and treat travel sickness and work by calming the stimulation of the inner ear. Motion sickness drugs are mostly the over-the-counter variety such as antihistamine. To get the desired results, make sure you get the acupressure bands before you leave home. While you can apply the pressure yourself by pressing between the two tendons on the inside of your child’s wrist, the great charm of the acupressure bands is that kids can leave them on for as long as they are travelling and experience relief from symptoms. Often used to keep sea sickness at bay, these work by applying continuous gentle pressure to an acupressure spot on the inside of your child’s wrist that relieves nausea. Some motion sickness sufferers have noticed that while ginger does reduce the chances of vomiting, it may not reduce the nausea. Ginger can be taken in tablets, as a tea, in crystallised form or in the raw before you travel and then taken at regular intervals during the trip. Scientific studies have proven that ginger has strong anti-emetic (anti-vomiting) properties because it relaxes the stomach muscles. The following are known to have some success with keeping motion sickness away: Ginger If you are travelling with a known victim of motion sickness, the key to keeping them well is to take anti-motion sickness steps before you leave home. ![]() For example, reading while travelling is a common cause of motion sickness because our inner ear reports motion to the brain while our eyes report that we are sitting still.Ĭhildren are more likely to suffer from travel sickness due to the fact that as they are smaller they are able to see less out of the windows (which makes it harder to match the sensation of motion with what they are seeing) so their brains receive more conflicting motion messages. Whether youre travelling by car, plane or boat, all motion sickness is caused by the brain receiving conflicting messages from our ears, eyes and sensors around our bodies about how our bodies are moving. The best ways to avoid motion sickness altogether ![]() Pale skin (some children can look quite green).It is much more challenging to alleviate travel sickness once your child starts to show symptoms so the key to happy traveling is to avoid putting your child in situations that may encourage motion sickness, and then to act quickly if symptoms do start to appear. Motion sickness affects an estimated 30% of people, with children over the age of two years being particularly susceptible, so it makes sense to know what can trigger motion sickness and how to tackle symptoms quickly if they appear. There’s no faster way to take the shine off a family road trip than having a child in the back seat threatening to throw up – or worse still, bringing up their breakfast. ![]()
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