Advice on coping with travel sickness
Jul 13th, 2008 by shop-universal-best-buy
Advice on coping with travel sickness
Are you planning a journey or are you holidaying abroad or maybe you are travelling to visit family and friends? Do you feel sick whilst making a journey?
Travel sickness can vary from slight nervousness to the more nauseating motion sickness, jetlag and sea sickness. If you suffer from symptoms such as loss of appetite, anxiety and stress, light headedness, an uneasy sickness in your stomach, vomiting, during a long or even a short journey you’re likely to be a sufferer.
Be prepared
If you suffer from air and motion sickness, my first top tip would be: Be prepared. On any journey whether travelling by car, ship, or plane is it is best if you plan for any eventuality. Keep an emergency pack of wet wipes, dry tissue and small scented plastic bags and if possible a source of water. Eat Light.
Only eat a very small light meal before you travel, reduce salty snacks as salt is thought to be one of the contributing factors that will worsen the condition.
Stay entertained.
Bring reading materials, music players, games, puzzles, and books anything that you enjoy which occupies you. Also hand held games can be a great distraction for children who tend to feel ill on journeys.
If you are a sufferer you could bring along an activity, which may help occupy you and may even remove any anxieties. This will also enable you to remain still for periods of time as moving around can make your sickness worst.
One of the reasons behind travel sickness is the movement caused by the moving car or a swaying ship, or an ascending airplane. The brain becomes disoriented when we move about: our ears, and therefore we feel nausea and sickness.
Jetlag causes our body clock to become out of sync when we travel into another time zone, it confuses the body clock. Acute jetlag often occurs in very frequent flyers. Symptoms can range from exhaustion, confusion, low concentration, headaches and insomnia and moodiness.
Stay Awake!
Jet lag can be alleviated by taking the following steps, when arriving at your destination, stay awake during the daytime, natural light can aid you to a peaceful recovery. Sleep during the night and stay awake in the day, this will be hard at first but eventually your body will adjust to the time zones.
Settle Down.
If you are finding it hard to sleep, have a bath, read or drink hot chocolate before you retire to bed, this will help you to adjust. This also applies to children who may find it difficult to adapt to a new environment and climate.
Arrive Early.
Be prepared and arrive well before any important meeting or event so you have time to regulate your body clock this will also give you time to enjoy the event rather than snooze through it!
Put these tips into place and enjoy a well deserved break.
Debra Thomson
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Advice on coping with travel sickness / Author: D. Thompson
