How to deal with motion sickness: Ginger, tablets and the strength of self-persuasion

Anyone who ever experience symptoms of motion sickness in the car, bus, aircraft or water transport, trying to drive as little as possible. Sweating, dizziness, heaviness in the head, lethargy, extreme discomfort in the abdomen, hands growing cold, excessive salivation - a condition absolutely terrible. In addition, all this can end, though bright, but unpleasant ending.

failure option of traveling and working trips will not approach anyone, so we will look for methods to combat motion sickness, which will facilitate your life.

Why are we swayed

Motion sickness, or, scientifically, kinetosis arises due to a mismatch of the body sensations that our brain perceives. The fluid of the inner ear are moving along with traffic, flashing eyes see things, but the muscles are at rest. Our brains simply do not understand what is happening.

In an enclosed space, such as in the cabin of the ship, the situation is slightly different: the feeling repetitive pitching is there, but the objects around a fixed - fails again, which the brain interprets as wrong pulses.

Why is nausea? There is such a hypothesis: the brain that receives strange impulses and visual sensations, suggests that you hallucinating. This he attributed to the fact that your body has got some poison. So, to do that? Correctly! Quickly get rid of it. Exciting assumption, right? But its charm dissipates when you say goodbye to your dinner ...

Almost every one of us experienced motion sickness symptoms to a greater or lesser extent. Some kinetosis occasionally catches only in the car, bus or particularly extreme rides. And someone and rise in high-speed elevator to the twentieth floor of the business center feels the sweat and dizziness.

But a small percentage of sufferers experiencing those nasty feelings in almost every trip. Unfortunately, there is no magic vaccine or exercise that can once and for all to teach our brain to react to the move, but significantly weaken the torment still possible, and we will explain how.

Preparing for Your Trip

Healthy, slept, in a good mood organism capable vigorously withstand various unfavorable factors. If you are sick, you have a stuffy nose, try to heal before the trip, because it is able to leverage the development of kinetosis.

Frequent traveler, prone to seasickness, decides not to eat anything the day before the trip. This approach merely aggravates nasty state. Be sure to eat two hours before setting off. Just give preference to simple, light and healthy food.

You do not need to eat and drink:

• acute;
• fat;
• too sweet and too salty;
• heavy drinks (sugary soda, milk);
• alcohol.

Do not overeat, and drink enough water. Some help avoid nausea crackers and mineral water or ginger ale.

Magic Ginger and mints

Ginger, which many people like to use for the treatment of the common cold, it turns out to cope with seasickness. It reduces the feeling of nausea and combats unpleasant sensations in the stomach.

It can take various forms:

1. Drink ginger tea or ginger ale, which we have already mentioned.
2. Take a small piece of fresh ginger root the size of half a finger and gnawing it for the whole trip. If you are flying on a plane, it is possible to chew a small piece of takeoff, one - in the middle of the flight, and the last - at the time of planting.
3. You can take with candied ginger.
4. If you will discover powdered ginger capsules, begin to take it for a few days before the trip.

Another fighter with natural manifestations kinetosis - mint. Many in the lungs nausea help mints or gum.

Pills for motion sickness

If you do not like ginger, peppermint, or think that you need a serious army fighters produced modern medical industry, here is the list of drugs that have worked well in the fight against motion sickness:

1. "Bonin". The active substance - meklozin.
2. "Dramina". The active substance - dimenhydrinate.
3. Formulations in which the active agent is scopolamine.

You can use any means with said active ingredients. These drugs are generally well tolerated, but may be observed side effects such as drowsiness, fatigue, blurred vision, nausea. As for scopolamine, in the 20-30-ies of XX century, it was used in the US as a "truth serum", so be careful. But I think at the concentrations used in tablets, it is unlikely to show such an effect.

Take the best seats in public transport

The optimal choice of location can help you do without taking any additional funds.

Top places in the plane - in the middle of the cabin, and at the front, especially near windows. So you can stare at the horizon, and this will help your vestibular apparatus to maintain balance.

On the boat it is best to take a lower cabin closer to the middle of the vessel. BUT in car - the front seat. By the way, the man sitting behind the wheel, never swayed. This is due to the fact that he looks only forward and focus on the road, because at any time you may need to maneuver. Therefore, if you are swayed in the passenger seat and have the opportunity to sit behind the wheel, use it.

In the bus better to sit in the front seats, which will allow you to watch not to the side window, and in front. If you get worse, get up and go to the top of the bus.

In any case, you need to focus on the horizon. This will help your brain to realize what is happening and the movement correctly perceive the incoming signals.

Do not attempt to deal with nausea eyes closed - you will only get worse. Forget about reading, browsing social networks and electronic games. Leaning over the book, you peripheral vision will still catch glimpses of the window and feel the rocking of transport. The conflict of the vestibular apparatus and the muscles will not be allowed.

Acupressure and the power of self-persuasion

What did not come up with the unfortunate suffering from seasickness. many helps acupressureIn which the need to click on a point located at the rear side of the forearm of four fingers at a distance from the wrist joint. There are even special bracelets from seasickness, providing constant pressure on this point.

As shown One studyExclude the manifestation of symptoms can kinetosis and power of persuasion. The study was conducted among the sea cadets. Of these, we highlight the group you are constantly told that seasickness they are not threatened, and if it happen to, it does not prevent them to perform their duties. At the end of the five-day trip, it was noted that the study participants felt better than their colleagues were more than the executive.

Well, the truth in this is: good humor and a positive attitude is always positive impact on health. And in order to escape from the bad thoughts, listen to your favorite music or breathe in some invigorating fragrance (eg, the same mint or ginger).

Motion sickness - one of the worst misfortunes that can happen to you on a trip. Disgusting feeling spoiled the charm of rest, when, instead of looking at the beauty outside the window of car or behind the plane, you have to look for a paper bag and constantly nervous. We are confident that at least one of the methods described by us will help you to cope with seasickness and receive travel only pleasure!