![]() Some general tips to avoid motion sickness include the following. There are various symptoms of motion sickness including:: In some people they last a few hours, or even days, after the journey ends. Symptoms typically go when the journey is over however, not always. Symptoms can develop in cars, trains, planes and boats and on amusement park rides, etc. It is not known why some people develop motion sickness more than others. Fortunately, many children grow out of having motion sickness. Motion sickness is more common in children and also in women. Both in children and adults, playing computer games can sometimes cause motion sickness to occur. Sometimes trying to read a book or a map can trigger motion sickness. Motion sickness can also be triggered by anxiety or strong smells, such as food or petrol. Although all people can develop motion sickness if exposed to sufficiently intense motion, some people are rarely affected while other people are more susceptible and have to deal with motion sickness very often. But If I’m like, “I’m just going to cross on a ship for an hour and there’s going to be waves but it’s only an hour and it’s not too bad, not big waves," then I’ll just use meclizine because it’s a little less sedating.Motion sickness is a normal response that anyone can have when experiencing real or perceived motion. So if you’re crossing the Drake Passage and if you want “the bomb,” I carry tons of -like I have a bottle of one thousand here-is use this because I think that’s the best. I just tell people to go drink a lot of caffeine. And what they do for astronauts-I’ve actually talked to the doctor who was first to give a shot of promethazine in space, on the Space Shuttle-is they mix it with caffeine. The downside is that it’s more sedating than any of the other ones, but I’d rather be tired instead of being tired from being seasick and vomiting at the same time and feeling like crap. That’s what uses for space sickness, which is supposedly worse. A lot of people don’t use promethazine anymore for anti-nausea, and a lot of doctors don’t know that that is the best anti-seasickness medication. It’s been used forever for anti-nausea but now that we’ve got Zofran, which is ondansetron, everyone uses that. ![]() you have to tell your doctor, “Hey, can you write me a prescription?” because a lot of doctors do not know this is actually used for seasickness. So promethazine is your favorite, but that’s prescription-only in the U.S., right? These simple tips will help you stay pain-free on every flight. When people get vertiginous, we give them an antihistamine like meclizine too, for that. It gets rid of the stimulus coming from your inner ear. By knocking out the information coming from our inner ear.for some reason that overrules everything else and that is how the medications work. ![]() ![]() We get nauseated, or we sometimes feel a spinning sensation. So there’s a conflict between the eye and the inner ear and, as a result, our body gets confused and that’s what seasickness is. The problem when we’re seasick is our brain gets confused, because if I’m inside and I can’t see that we’re moving, my inner ear tells me I’m moving but my eyes tell me I’m not moving, and my proprioception tells me I am moving. You know you’re moving because all of a sudden you have more pressure on one side.and then more pressure on the other. And three is proprioception: my butt right now, or my feet when I’m standing. Two is my inner ears with the semicircular canals tell us that we’re moving, and it’s sending signals to the brain. One is visually: from looking out a window I can see that I’m moving. The way I know I’m moving on a ship is three ways. The reason we get seasick is because we’re getting different information going to our brain, and our brain doesn’t know what to do.
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