OS travel sickness tips please!

beckstar1975

I have had this on boats and a man shoved half a lemon under my nose and said smell this - and combination of smelling and sucking did help. Not sure if it's the feeling of actively controlling it, or whether lemons really do help - but I know if I feel sick for anything (morning sickness especially) everything smells vile and is likely to make me hurl, and the lemon at least disguises other smells

Good luck

peachyprice

The bands worked for my son and for my daughter and I used them for morning sickness while pregnant.

THIRZAH

Both my DDs suffered from travel sickness-DD1 still does and she's 28 now!

They were worse if we had to travel in the morning.Later in the day they would often go to sleep .DD2 found that nibbling on something like salt and vinegar crisps or Pringles helped her.

We kept an old ice cream box with a lid and a roll of strong plastic bags in the car. I would put a plastic bag inside the box so if they were sick I could tie the top of the bag and bin it and we'd still have the box in case they were sick again.

When they were very small I would always carry a change of clothes and wipes in the car.

Emm-in-a-pickle

I second the Lemon-sniffing tip.
I`ve never been troubled buy travel sickness nor have any of my lot, but I had a couple of elderly aunts who loved coach trips but go nauseous. A friend of theirs told them to get a lemon, and it worked for them. Not cutting it or sucking it, but just digging their nails into the skin and releasing the zest to sniff at. I told a friend about this and she tried it successfully too.

Ms_Chocaholic

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Ginger biscuits or ginger ale sipped slowly and keep the windows open. Believe it or not a lot of travel sickness is actually anxiety attacks

I'm not sure I agree.

Even fairground rides can make me feel wobbly. Also as a passenger being driven on windy roads through the Lake District made me feel unwell, until I got into the driving seat and I felt much better. I can also feel queasy watching a boat on the TV for any length of time.

Owl

Sounds stupid, and don't know how it works but sitting on a sheet of newspaper helps!!! (Tried and tested with a coach load of children on school trip!!!) I think it's something to do with the smell of newsprint when it gets warmed by little bottoms!!!

niftythrifty33

Put a 2 pence piece in each hand for them to hold throughout the journey, apparently the metal stops sickness. My friend swears by this

pigpen

beckstar1975 wrote: »

I have had this on boats and a man shoved half a lemon under my nose and said smell this - and combination of smelling and sucking did help. Not sure if it's the feeling of actively controlling it, or whether lemons really do help - but I know if I feel sick for anything (morning sickness especially) everything smells vile and is likely to make me hurl, and the lemon at least disguises other smells

Good luck

The sucking motion alters the inner ear pressure and gives you something else to think about!. Half the problem I have is thinking about the nausea, I have a vomit phobia so I need to distract myself.

I once had 6 children vomiting on a bus.. filled all their seaside buckets and several changes of clothes and it was still running down the aisle of the bus. The nearest loo to empty the buckets was in a caf!... at the back lol.. I did offer to help clean the bus once we got to our destination/terminus... I swore we would never go anywhere by bus again!

miss_scrooge

They have sweets in holland and barretts called gin gins they help sickness about 1.79 a box and they are for travel sickness they helped me also can melt them in boiling water there's 2 different boxes chewable sweets aswell.

Callie22

I used to get really travel sick but I seem to have grown out of it (eventually lol). Sitting in the front is definitely much better for me and sucking minty sweets definitely helps.

I also found that ready salted crisps and some lucozade really help to get rid of the sicky feeling afterwards, but I wouldn't eat those during the journey - bright yellow vomit is not fun!