How to Deal with Motion Sickness in the Car

Knowing how to manage or possibly avoid motion sickness is especially important when traveling with children. There are natural ways to prevent motion sickness from occurring. If one of these natural remedies doesn’t work for you, there are a few tips to make the after effects easier to deal with.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Ginger products
• Food
• Plastic bags
• Wet wipes
• Clothing

1. Purchasing ginger snaps and/or ginger ale before your trip is a great idea. Read the labels on these products because not all of them actually contain ginger, which is what you really want! Snacking on these items can help put your stomach at ease. Health food stores often carry ginger candies that some people find to be quite tasty.

2. Choose to travel on interstates more than back roads as much as possible. Interstates tend to be less curvy than scenic routes. Also, you do not have to stop and start frequently. Continual stops and starts can foster motion sickness problems.

3. Make sure to keep fresh air flowing through the car. Fresh air circulating seems to help with car sickness.

4. If you tend towards car sickness, do not read books, look down for long periods, or ride sideways in the car.

5. In your car, stash several grocery sacks or gallon size zippy bags. If someone is feeling ill, quickly hand them a bag, or have one conveniently located by their seat. Pull off to the side of the road as quickly as possible and let the person out to empty their stomach and get some fresh air. If they already vomited, simply throw away the sack. Always double bag grocery sacks to prevent leakage.

6. If traveling with many kids and the baby happens to be asleep so that you don’t want to pull over for fear of waking the baby, simply shut the bag tightly and place the bag next to the door to be deposited in the trash can at the earliest opportunity.

7. In case the vomit did not make it to the bag, make sure to bring plenty of baby wipes for clean up. Also, pack a change of clothing for everyone in an easily accessible bag. Place the soiled clothing in a sack and allow the sick one to change into clean clothing.

8. Although motion sickness is no fun, being prepared can make the journey a little more bearable.

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[soanyway]

on 8/1/2009 I'm 53 years old and I still get motion sickness....and it's getting worse as I get older! Now I can't go on roller coasters! Great tips for all! I have recomn'd you. Pay it forward to all! ;-)