Car Sicknesses

The only thing that works for me is sitting on a newspaper!!!

Thank you grannylyn, will try that!!

My car sickness hasn't got worse, but I have more of a problem with sea sickness than I did. W have a holiday home in France and we travel there about 10 times a year, so this matters.

My only solution is travel sickness tablets. Travel sickness is caused by disturbances in the balance process in the head and as I am dyspraxic this goes with the territory. Travel sickness tablets have the other advantage that they send me, and many others, to sleep so we can be oblivious to most of the journey.

Holding a penny tightly? (It did also work on a coach with a child I taught.!)

It's funny how you hear a lot less about car sickness nowadays isn't it? It used to be common for children to be car sick, but I haven't heard of any children suffering from it for a long time now. Or are we just lucky?!

grannylyn does it really work! I used to take a stack on any school journey and any kiddie who said they felt sick was made to sit on a newspaper! As I never knew how sick they actually felt could never verify the validity of the method!

I think if you suffer from car sickness as a child it's likely to lessen as you get older.

Stugeron is a good anti-motion sickness tablet and very good for sea sickness.

I get really car sick on long trips and country roads. I agree re Stugeron. Its made a brilliant difference for me.

Cars are much better designed these days. The ride is smoother and the seats more comfortable BUT children are still suffering from travel sickness. Our DGD aged 11 suffers from it. She is better than she was, but while she doesn't need to hold a sick bag throughout every long journey, we do travel with packets of ginger biscuits and stop every 40 minutes to let her get out and walk round. She also always travels in the front seat.

A tip worth trying, as it worked for my dd when she was young, is to wear earphones and listen to music. I've no idea why it worked but it did!

Travel bands for your wrists are also worth a try.

I used to suffer terribly as a child and the only thing that really helped was stopping half way through a journey and buying me an ice lolly. I remember Lyons Maid being the best one because you could slowly suck the orange juice through the ice.

I still get nauseous occasionally and can't read in a car or bus. It was much worse when I was a child. I never get sick if I'm driving but I can't map read so thank goodness for the sat nav.
On board ship, if it's rough I use seabands. and brandy and ginger works for me But other family members can read, eat and do handstands without any ill effects.

I was always travel sick as a child, the worst ever was when ai was pregnant and couldn’t travel even a mile without having to stop. I still cannot sit in the back of a car and the only guaranteed solution is for me to drive.

On board ferries, curiously I’m better if it’s choppy, a smooth, wallowly journey is not good. I always enjoyed hovercraft journeys across the Channel, I was never sick then.

Agree about Stugeron. And brandy and dry ginger. It’s the ginger of course

Sorry when I not ai. Makes me sound a bit above myself

The only thing that works for DGD is a travel sickness tablet.
Between us we've tried newspaper (recommended previously on GN I think) sucking sweets etc. etc. She doesn't like ginger.
Perhaps we'll try an ice lolly as that could help the ears, although it may not last long enough.

She also tried the sea bands - moderately effective.
They do work on me.

I can’t travel in the rear seats of a car and I now find that I can no longer read on long train journeys. This has definitely developed with age. If I am on a touring holiday involving coach journeys I have to take travel sickness medication.

No idea if this is true, many years ago I read it was caused by an imbalance between eyes and ears, I suffered with it, stopped uses buses and trains when I had a car age 17, never had the problem if I was driving, this links with - looking straight ahead not through side windows.

GD is always car sick and has to take tablets to travel anywhere other than a mile or two down the road.
I think being stuck in the back of the car behind headrests does not help.
I always carry a sick bucket in the car, since having bowel surgery I can get pretty yucky. I take Cyclizine but it makes me very drowsy so often not an option.

I use thé travel bands and find they work really well.

MOnica, good to meet a fellow dyspraxic. My travel sickness is getting worse as I get older and I now have to take Stugeron for longer journeys. I also find that my co-ordination is getting worse. Is this your experience? I coped pretty well through life but feel that the dyspraxia is coming back to haunt me now.

I think it does get worse. I used to be able to read on trains,but can’t anymore. I bought a cheap pair of headphones and listen to music instead. I prefer sitting facing the direction of the train. Unfortunately I have vertigo, and have also found that air travel gives me excruciating ear pain and temporary deafness. I wear wristbands, and take stugeron on sleeper trains. We’re travelling to northern Spain, by train, in April and sailing back on Brittany Ferries. I’d appreciate advice on ferry travel, because I haven’t done it for years, and am a bit apprehensive! Will probably take travel sickness pills, but would appreciate others’views on the best ones.

I was car sick as a child. Then dad removed the air freshener he had hanging off the mirror. Suddenly the car sickness went. I am very sensitive to smells.

You might like to try this - whilst on a car journey if you hold a two pence piece in your hand and keep turning it over (assuming you are the passenger!) it is supposed to fight off car sickness. It works for my GD,.