OS travel sickness tips please!

joannie

Hi,

we do a lot of cruising and find ginger helps, ginger tea or chrystallised ginger. We have noticed that ginger appears in a lot of dishes if the sea conditions are bad, so assume that there is something in it. Hope this helps.

josment

If you can distract them, that will also help. Use the suggested remedies as well, and play Pub Cricket.

Rules. Two teams, one batting, one bowling. The batters look for pub names with legs, e.g. Jolly Miller, Red Lion etc, and count the number of legs as runs. The bowlers look for pubs without legs, e.g. Millers Arms, Railway Inn. If the bowlers shout out when they find one of 'their' pubs, the batsmen are out and the teams change over. N.B. Where there's an indefinite number of legs, e.g. Coach and Horses or Fox and Geese, you assume there's two horses or geese.

That game doesn't work on the motorway, of course, so try making silly phrases from registration plate letters, e.g. NTC - Noisy Tortoise Coughing

magsmag

Sit on a newspaper. It's worked for me on ships, planes and cars. It will take....say 15/20 mins to work.

sonastin

josment wrote: »

If you can distract them, that will also help. Use the suggested remedies as well, and play Pub Cricket.

Rules. Two teams, one batting, one bowling. The batters look for pub names with legs, e.g. Jolly Miller, Red Lion etc, and count the number of legs as runs. The bowlers look for pubs without legs, e.g. Millers Arms, Railway Inn. If the bowlers shout out when they find one of 'their' pubs, the batsmen are out and the teams change over. N.B. Where there's an indefinite number of legs, e.g. Coach and Horses or Fox and Geese, you assume there's two horses or geese.

That game doesn't work on the motorway, of course, so try making silly phrases from registration plate letters, e.g. NTC - Noisy Tortoise Coughing

We have a variation on this - in no way as sophisticated in terms of teams and swapping but more suited to motorway journeys - roadside debris cricket.
1pt for a traffic cone (not associated with road works)
2pts for other forms of road-works paraphenalia (not located where there are road works)
5pts for avian road kill (only bored adults in our car -might not be best for young/sensitive children)
10pts for mammalian road kill (as above, but more so!)
20pts for shoes
50pts for other items of clothing
100pts for an umbrella etc. (we were trying to come up with the most ridiculous and outlandish things that you wouldn't expect to find beside the road. I was amazed by how many umbrellas we saw! but it is a really sad indictment of how much litter is beside our roads in this country)

You score if its on your side of the road. Passenger side has an advantage as more stuff ends up on the hard shoulder so give drivers side the central reservation and anything that can be seen on the other carriageway. How you divide up the motorway lanes is up to you.

mummyroysof3

Been referred to this thread as I posted about the same issue on the families board. My ds who is 4 with learning difficulties gets travel sick and ned to figure out a way to help him. The usual methods of distracting him from getting bored are the same things that are said to make travel sickness worse argh. Can't get him to take a travel sickness tablet either

arbroath_lass

pigpen wrote: »

My children are horrifically travel sick, I can't even go into town on the bus (15 minutes).. The only thing we found that works are the stugeron-15 tablets.. they work differently to most travel sickness pills by altering the pressure in the inner ear.

I have to agree with pigpen Stugeron- 15 is the only stuff that has worked for me.

Having spent my childhood feeling rotten and being given old style remedies I have to say there is a reason they are old style!

They only other thing that vaguely helps is being allowed to sit up front (or outside on deck) and not doing anything. Even that just keeps away the vomiting not the nausea.

I had a teacher on a coach trip who once though a game of chess would "keep my mind off it". He didn't try that again!

arbroath_lass

magsmag wrote: »

Sit on a newspaper. It's worked for me on ships, planes and cars. It will take....say 15/20 mins to work.

As a child I'd have been sick by then!

culpepper

I used travel bands when I had morning sickness and they worked very effectively so we tried them with my son when he had travel sickness and they really helped him.
It is the same principal as Chinese pressure points so you can do it with your finger pressing in the same place. Obviously the bands are less bother and can be worn on both wrists.
When I was younger I was always sick in cars and buses and found looking out of the window was the best thing .I suppose that when very small I may not have been able to see out as we didn't have booster seats in those days. Mum used to buy a tin of barley sugars called travel sweets for long trips.
My son goes to sleep on long coach and car journeys now as he says it stops him feeling queasy.