How to prevent motion sickness?

[Anonymous]

I always get nausea attacks while riding on a car. There's a med given to me to prevent nausea. But it does not work. I also avoid eating snacks because it'll just make it worse. So how do I travel without getting any nausea attacks?

[MaiNameIsSunshine]

Drink ginger tea or chew some sugared ginger. You could also try some home made ginger ale (store bought like Canada Dry doesn't really help as it contains very little real ginger). Ginger is anti nausea and it works really well for me when I have nausea from my acid reflux (which gets so bad to the point that I throw up even a sip of water, but ginger tea gives me instant relief!).

[abundantlyrich]

Turn off the aircon. It's the aircon making you sick. Toyota has the worst ones. I'd always feel sick after sitting in there for the first few minutes.

[Sexualchrist]

I thought Toyotas were meant to be pretty good. I was thinking of getting one actually. Shit a/c?

[abundantlyrich]

@Sexualchrist some people are sensitive to the air released by the car.

[Sexualchrist]

I get it when people stop/start too fast I'm traffic instead of just smoothly coming to a halt and not speeding up too much when you already know the traffic will only move a few metres. Taxi drivers are notorious for it.
Never knew it was due to the aircon

[abundantlyrich]

@Sexualchrist Nothing to do with motion.

[abundantlyrich]

It's the heat and the aircon. ;P

[Sexualchrist]

What cars have good a/c or climate control systems?

[abundantlyrich]

@Sexualchrist I can't tell you because I felt sensitive to the Aircon but the driver didn't. It's best you test drive cars to find out what suits you or not

[Hans222]

You have to move your head as little as possible (avoid stimulating your equilibrium organ too much) and look outside in the direction of movement.
As long as your eyes can confirm what your equilibrium organ feels, you can avoid motion sickness :D
That is true to sea, air and car sickness!

[Hans222]

Thanks for the MH :D

[Azgeda]

Focus on the horizon. Look straight ahead , lean into the turns , follow the motion of the vehicle. Don't fight it. LEAN into it. Stay loose.

[Sexualchrist]

Avoid looking at your phone while you're riding in the car and look as far away out the windows as you can or look up at the sky

[TruExo]

Omg. I have the same problem. Only with cars too