Car Sicknesses

I used to suffer terribly as a child and the only thing that really helped was stopping half way through a journey and buying me an ice lolly. I remember Lyons Maid being the best one because you could slowly suck the orange juice through the ice.

A tip worth trying, as it worked for my dd when she was young, is to wear earphones and listen to music. I've no idea why it worked but it did!

Travel bands for your wrists are also worth a try.

Cars are much better designed these days. The ride is smoother and the seats more comfortable BUT children are still suffering from travel sickness. Our DGD aged 11 suffers from it. She is better than she was, but while she doesn't need to hold a sick bag throughout every long journey, we do travel with packets of ginger biscuits and stop every 40 minutes to let her get out and walk round. She also always travels in the front seat.

I get really car sick on long trips and country roads. I agree re Stugeron. Its made a brilliant difference for me.

I think if you suffer from car sickness as a child it's likely to lessen as you get older.

Stugeron is a good anti-motion sickness tablet and very good for sea sickness.

grannylyn does it really work! I used to take a stack on any school journey and any kiddie who said they felt sick was made to sit on a newspaper! As I never knew how sick they actually felt could never verify the validity of the method!

It's funny how you hear a lot less about car sickness nowadays isn't it? It used to be common for children to be car sick, but I haven't heard of any children suffering from it for a long time now. Or are we just lucky?!

Holding a penny tightly? (It did also work on a coach with a child I taught.!)

My car sickness hasn't got worse, but I have more of a problem with sea sickness than I did. W have a holiday home in France and we travel there about 10 times a year, so this matters.

My only solution is travel sickness tablets. Travel sickness is caused by disturbances in the balance process in the head and as I am dyspraxic this goes with the territory. Travel sickness tablets have the other advantage that they send me, and many others, to sleep so we can be oblivious to most of the journey.

Thank you grannylyn, will try that!!

The only thing that works for me is sitting on a newspaper!!!