Often motion sickness medication can cause drowsiness. It must be taken prior to travel, usually at least 30 minutes before. In most cases the medication is not effective. Motion sickness bands or otherwise known as a motion sickness bracelet can be effective. You can use these time and time again and they work with acupressure. There are also some herbal remedies available, such as ginger. This can be taken in the raw form or in tea or even ginger biscuits (with a quite high ginger strength in them).
The sickness can make travelling extremely hard and not an enjoyable experience at all. There are some things that will make the risk factor higher than others, these include being prone to nauseaanxioustravelling in a boat, airplane, car, traingoing on fair ridesbad ventilation not seeing out of the window when travelling.
Approximately 30% of the population suffer with motion sickness. 5% will suffer to an extreme level including vomiting. Once children are able to put together the pieces visually, meaning they are aware that they are moving and able to see where they are going, then they become susceptible to the condition. Prior to this they will not suffer. This is why it is said that children over 2 are prone to suffer. Children of the age 2 up to 12 are the highest at risk.
Below are just a few tips for helping to reduce the sickness:
Drink lots of wateravoid greasy, fatty or spicy mealsdon't eat too muchavoid alcohol the day before travellingtry to get some fresh air whilst travelling.
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