Sea Sickness Remedy

Posted by Jackie Hewett on Tue 27th March 2007 at 11:28 PM, Filed in Travel Tips

Fortunately I am not a sea-sickness sufferer myself.  However as my mother and step-children all are I watched a recent ‘Mythbusters’ program on television with great interest as it exploded the myths behind various remedies….

They started by designing a chair contraption designed to simulate the motion of being at sea, and then identifying potential sea-sickness sufferers.  Their guinea-pigs took turns in the ‘chair of torture’, and only those who became really queasy were selected to test various commercial, and other, remedies.

The remedies triailed included special tablets, wrist bands and the old mariners favourite - ginger.  The program was very convincing as the poor sufferers were put through their paces and grew increasingly reluctant to participate!  I am glad to report (for your pockets) that the only consistently effective remedy was found to be the consumption of ginger.  As you can get it in many different forms (pills, candied, raw and powdered) I advise you to ‘go natural’ and not waste your money on fancy products.

If you have any of your own sea sickness tips we’d love to hear from you!

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