Car Sickness

I still get car sickness. What is Bicarb Sode? Ginger tea I am a bit leary of that one. I just can't imagine that this will work. Do I drink it before I get in the car? Or do I drink it afterwards to make me feel better? I didnt' realize the strap hanging on the back of some cars was for car sickness. I thought it was to stop the electric shocks you get when touching the car? Does anyone know if this is true about the strap?

Nothing seemed to cure me from motion sickness when I was a child.Empty stomach,lime,ginger,sedation no chance.They tried a copper coin to my wrist to keep it through the journey once.I don't remember it worked wither.The longest distance I have traveled in a car without puking must be 50 meters.lol.

I used to suffer badly from car sickness when I was younger.There are tablets you can take that help.My Mother used to give me orange flavoured lollies to suck on which seemed to work for some strange reason.I also found that if I sat in the front I didn't seem to get sick.

Thanks for sharing your tips. Both tips are indeed useful for me, and I will try it the next time my husband and I are traveling downtown. Actually I don't have car sickness all the time, but sometimes I get it. I don't know what caused me to have it at one time and not having it at another time. It is not constant. However my father told me that it is due to the air pressure in the car. I've noticed that when I had not traveled in a car for more than a month, I will experience car sickness. If I travel often in a car, the car sickness automatically gone just like that. I started to believe that my body is taking time to adjust to the different air pressure from inside and outside the car. Another factor that made me dizzy while being in a car is when it is a newly bought car. The smell of a new car is very dizzying to me and I hate traveling in a new car. Especially when the air conditioner is on, I can never tolerate the dizziness. My head feels like exploding. Lol. Again, thanks for your tips. I think I want to try it both and see if the tips work for me. Have a nice day, lilaclady!

Those are such wonderful tips. I only wish those things would work for me. Yes...here I am, 41 years old, and I still get car sick. I'm not so bad when I'm in the front passenger seat. But the back seat....no way! I pretty much end up hanging out the window! I've tried everything there is to try, and the only thing that helps me is good old Dramamine. I really like them for long trips, because I will take two of them, and I am conked out until we reach our destination. LOL

yes i have ginger works really well, the bi-carb soda sounds unusual how does it work?

I can only sit in the front mainly on long journeys..I never read in a car either. That really can nmake you go queasy lol. I will try out your little neat idea as it helps when you have lots of family members with the same problem. All the kids in our family get queasy and car sick lol. Thanks for that suggestion..

I very rarely get car sick unless I'm trying to read in the car while its moving or unless its a really curvey road. AT PEACE WITHIN

Speaking of carsickness, I was so afraid to take a bus, a truck or a car when I was younger. I always felt carsick and then I would surely throw up what I had eaten. It was so terrible an experience. But now it seems much better for me. Maybe it is just because that I have been used to this. Sometimes if I don't sleep well at night and have to get up early to catch a bus, I would still feel carsick. Yet I hate to take any pills for carsickness.

Bicarb soda in the Glove Box, how does it help? And i'd also like to know how the strip on the back of the car helps? I've heard of the ginger and it does help. I suffer from motion sickness , i always have, and my 4 year old has inherited it from me. It's an awful thing to suffer from :( Whenever i go on long trips i just take travel sick tablets, they do the job.

i never heard of this before,but sounds like a great idea,its amazing on how something so simple to try works and makes us feel better,i will have to keep this in mind,thanks.pattie

I suffer from car sickness too. things which help me are chewys especially sour ones. also put the wind shield down. u can also try travel sickness tablets but they will make u drowsy.

Sometimes it could be a psychological trigger, like a mental association. That's one avenue to at least consider if you are still coming down with car sickness. Other remedies I know of include: 7up (My bro was a car sick guy when we were little kids, this worked), Halls/Oral Suppressant (My older cousin's friend did this, swears by it), Horizontal Stripe (Seen this on cars, I'm guessing is psychological), Pepto (Sometimes its not car sickness but it could be the body itself), Suckers/Lolipops (My late doctor gave these out, cause he found the visits would upset the children at times giving them sickness on the trip home You may find some weird, but I've witnessed 4 of them and confirmed one thanks to another post in this thread. Good luck with that Lilac, wishing you the best, Pro.

I believe it has a lot to do with the inner ear-- if you're driving, you KNOW how the car will be moving, but if you're a passenger, and not watching out the windows all the time, the sudden changes in speed or turning corners unexpectedly gets fluids or pressures moving and changing in your head... children get it the most because they can't see out! Both of mine got over it when they got tall!

A few years ago we took a long drive (normally 18 hours but probably 22 with 2 kids) to my husband's hometown. We drove straight through the night. We had the magnetic strips on the back of the van dragging on the ground, we had the magnetic wrist bands, and we took gravol and still my younger daughter got sick twice, my older daughter came close to getting sick (she just got out of the van and refused to get back in when we were about two hours from our destination), and I felt sick driving through the night. We give up. Neither of my girls will ever drive that trip again and insist that we fly down. DH says we can't afford it. I don't like driving either. Three against one you think would work, instead he goes by himself. Now, after his recent trip, he may have discovered he can't handle the trip anymore because when he got home he was paralyzed with back pain for several days (needed to call an ambulance to take him to the hospital). I think some of the ideas for car sickness are bogus. Like I said, we tried it all. The only thing that helps my nausea is peppermints but I have yet to try those on a long trip, and my younger daughter isn't crazy about them. When gravol doesn't work, what else can you do?

I suffered from car sickness when I was a child and I found that if I did not read, but looked out of the window, that my car sickness was gone. I did like the other suggestions. I not only got sick in cars, I even got sick in buses.

When I was a child I used to experience dizziness when I ride a bus or a car. I think one of the reason is that I am not used in riding before because I travel less when I was a child. But when I grow up and I always ride automobiles then I get used to it and I don't get dizzy. Later, my first travel on sea is also one of my tiring experience because I felt sick and dizzy with the boat. I throw food. And I always experience it when I travel on sea especially when the sea waves are rough. So sometimes I take bonamine that helps you not to get dizzy while on travel.

i suffer from car sickness only when i am not well.but my mother suffers usually,when the car start to move,she begins to feel dizzy and throw up.it is really painful.she would rather walk than use a car. so thanks for you advice.

I almost never get car sickness in a family, recreational vehicle, but ALWAYS on long bus trips. I think that it's the height and inability to see the road lines. My main solution was a ginger supplement, music, and a good seat where I can see the road, which strangely settles my nerves. Any sort of distraction made me feel better =D

Wow thanks for the tips. It has really helped me get over my car sickness. :D thank you alot for giving me this tip on car sickness.