travel sickness cure

[prendi]

Hi we have just been on a 7 hour coach trip and my husband has been feeling queasy and sick and dizzy,we have tried herbal travel pills,sea bands,rennies but nothing seems to have worked.Since we got home he has done nothing but burp! Has anyone got any remedies for this??

[Prudie]

It's a bit late but I find proper travel sickness pills like stugeron, fenergan much more effective. For now if it was me I'd have a brandy or something and a nap.

[ladyalex]

Soda water can help too.

[boxtops]

Tonic water helps me

[TTG]

Try and sit near the front next time and look straight ahead out of the front window. Ginger beer can help settle the stomach.

[prendi]

thanx for the answers,i have given him some peppermint tea to drink for now.we cant understand the burping though?

[boxtops]

Quite possibly the Rennies!

[EGTB]

Hi recently had to go back and forth to Ireland several times via Ferry across the Irish sea - have been susceptible to sea sickness in the past - Someone recommended sucking/chewing Crystallized ginger - Worked a treat -managed to do some work and eat on the crossings

[Greedyfly]

Ginger generally helps me. Just a ginger biscuit or as the others have suggested.

[RATTER15]

As a someone who suffers from travel sickness, I would just go to chemist and get some proper travel sickness pills, they really work so well these days, none of this herbal rubbish, that's for hippies!!! Barley sugars are a great help as well but you need to keep sucking them!!

[mrs_overall]

What you need is Heinz vegetable soup.

It won't stop you being sick.....but it looks and tastes the same going down as it does coming back up

[prendi]

we have asked about the real sickness pills but because my husband is on blood pressure tablets the chemist didnt want to give us them,so we opted for the herbal ones.

[boxtops]

Prendi, why don't you check with your GP? there might be prescription medication your husband can have which won't clash with his BP medication - I'm thinking of something like stemetil (it's prescribed for other things but my GP told me it also helps with motion sickness) but you can only get it on prescription.

[boxtops]

^ generic name procholorperazine

[prendi]

thanx boxtops we are going to the docs tomorrow for tetanus jabs ,so we will ask about the tablets .

[Booldawg]

As a youngster I was once car sick 5 times from Liphook to Basingstoke; thats only 17 miles. Not really a cure for your husband but more yet another anecdote from my life. I'm serialising it on the interweb.

[pastafreak]

Sorry RATTER, but some of the 'herbal' rubbish does work....such as ginger. It's been recommended and used successfully for years...particularly for morning sickness.
I make a ginger tea.....thinly sliced or grated ginger,boiling water-let steep. Add sugar/honey to taste.

[squarebear]

Travel sickness is caused by the brain being confused. Your ears tell you that you are moving but your legs tell you that you are stood still.

We found a great way to cure travel sickness is to move your ankles up and down as though walking and this seems to settle the brain.

[RATTER15]

Pasta, lol, you are probably a Hippy!!

[anne50scot]

my mother had high blood pressure and was badly sea sick.She went a cruise and got Stugeron and was never sick,but had to begin taking them well before travelling.