Sea Sickness

helen_caslass

ginger.........

Happy_saver_4

Eat loads of porridge and don't worry - tastes the same going either way :rotfl:

chalky_bertie

Happy_saver wrote:

Eat loads of porridge and don't worry - tastes the same going either way :rotfl:

Very funny!!!! :T

We've just come back from Antarctica and crossed the Drake Passage with a wind of Force 9 on the scale! We stayed in bed all day and worked a treat.

loates123

Stugeron tablets are better than ginger

also wonder if they would work on fair ground rides???????

IClaudius

chalky_bertie wrote:

Very funny!!!! :T

We've just come back from Antarctica and crossed the Drake Passage with a wind of Force 9 on the scale! We stayed in bed all day and worked a treat.

:eek: :eek: :eek:

lig

wrist bands I dive and sail and get seasick on a wet rug these work for me

Becles

chalky_bertie wrote:

We've just come back from Antarctica and crossed the Drake Passage with a wind of Force 9 on the scale! We stayed in bed all day and worked a treat.

I came back from Holland in a force 9. It was so bad they closed the lower outside passenger decks as the waves were washing over them :eek:

So I had a few drinks and went in the disco

My son suffers from travel sickness and the Boots own brand travel sickness tablets work for him. They work quite quickly too, and don't make him drowsy like the Sturgeon ones did.

reduceditem

At sea if you keep your eyes fixed on the horizon you will feel less ill (your brain needs something that doesn't move to look at). If you are to be at sea for a long time you will probably find your brain will adapt after a few days....often people are never seasick again once they have 'passed through and out the other side'.

Happy_saver_4

I know this will upset some people but sea sickness is often ' mind over matter '. Before you poo-hoo this this statement please consider this:-

We used to own a day trip/charter yachting business in Brazil. Holiday makers would come aboard and some would start to feel sick within a few minutes of sailing and ask had we got anything? It was pointless offering Stugeron, or any other proprietry product as they need to be taken 24hrs before sailing. We actually offered them a very expensive pill we'd had specially imported from Europe and were difficult to obtain. These pills really did cure sea sickness and we were offered large sums of money by customers for these pills; we refused. The pills were actually a very very mild indigestion tablet bought at a local pharmacy in Brazil.

The amount of sea sickness ' cured ' by these pills was incredible.

On a charter if one person feels sick it's surprizing how many others feel sick, in sympathy - we got thru loads of these pills.

I also agree there are few peeps who genuinely do suffer from sea-sickness due to inner ear balance. The previous postings regarding ginger, Stugeron, keep the horizon in view and stay away from exhaust fumes etc etc do work.

Also, don't eat either cheese or steak before sailing - they are difficult for the stomach to digest.

One of my friends who came sailing and really suffered said:-

" I didn't know you could be so ill without dying " :eek:

stroppiemare

a friend of mine suffered with sea sickness and she used the wrist band's and they worked 100%.