Weird cures for seasickness

[Sybarite]

That's so wrong! It's most of the time that its psychological rather than physical. IMHO

French navy doctors have devised a course of desensitizing treatments which are available to the public.

 

[maybh1]

Don't spend your money on the sunglasses!

I have been blind in one eye since childhood and if the conditions are right I can get sick just standing on a pontoon:encouragement:

I know of no weird cures - only Stugeron

May
Xx

 

[erbster]

What about the glasses sold by at least one well-known chandlery which look like the love child of a spirit level and two Paris of John Lennon's specs?

 

[mjcoon]

What about the glasses sold by at least one well-known chandlery which look like the love child of a spirit level and two Paris of John Lennon's specs?

Is that sticking plaster of Paris?

Mike.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Presumably it has been superseded by some hi-tech, expensive option which can only be administered by hospital consultants after the patient has been referred by the GP via the 'Lazy Eye Nurse Specialist'.

Glasses, patches and eye drops.

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/lazy-eye/Pages/Introduction.aspx

 

[ribdriver]

Don't spend your money on the sunglasses!

I have been blind in one eye since childhood and if the conditions are right I can get sick just standing on a pontoon:encouragement:

I know of no weird cures - only Stugeron

May
Xx

Ginger biscuits...go nicely with a hot brew also

 

[oldbilbo]

Anything such as a tight collar will also create vestibular disfunction. So I never wear a tie when sailing.

It is also helpful to remove the cummerbund....

And, mentioning 'sitting under trees', I've always wondered about the purpose/significance of that little orange tree on Kevin Costner's trimaran in 'Waterworld'.....

 

[jerrytug]

Ginger biscuits...go nicely with a hot brew also

Is there any scientific evidence (apart from anecdotes etc) that they do anything?

 

[chinita]

Is there any scientific evidence (apart from anecdotes etc) that they do anything?

Surprisingly, there are still inconclusive studies going on:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23448741

When I used to work with People with Parkinson's in Care Homes many of them could not tolerate the drugs they were given. The advice was to take them with tea and a ginger biscuit.

All I can say is that it always seemed to work!

 

[chinita]

Glasses, patches and eye drops.

Funny how we are conditioned by society.

When you said 'patches' I immediately thought 'Uh? wot! like - nicotine patches'

 

[KellysEye]

>covering one eye seems to be the new cure

In the Sunday Times today there is an article about a man who gets motion sickness and has developed sunglasses that block one eye, they can be turned upside down to block either eye. He spent £70,000 to design develop and produce an example which has been tested and works. Seems to me an eye patch would work.

 

[jerrytug]

Surprisingly, there are still inconclusive studies going on:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23448741

When I used to work with People with Parkinson's in Care Homes many of them could not tolerate the drugs they were given. The advice was to take them with tea and a ginger biscuit.

All I can say is that it always seemed to work!

Thanks for that Chinita. I wouldn't use the word 'inconclusive', the study says that ginger does sweet FA.
We met some squaddies in Kiel who swore by 'a big fooking joint' for seasickness, what's that all about? Seems odd, a roast dinner when someone's feeling green.

 

[Wandering Star]

I've been sailing for almost 60 years, until 18 years ago I suffered quite badly with seasickness although it never put me off sailing, ginger biscuits definitely did help though I'm happy to accept it was possibly just the sharp taste of the ginger and chemically was only a placebo - anyway, I got through a fair few packets of ginger biscuits.

18 years ago I became profoundly deaf, very sudden with no warnings (that I noticed) but a side benefit of my deafness was that I have never suffered from seasickness again. I can go out in the roughest seas, eat the greasiest food and work upside down in the engine bay - no feelings of sickness at all, another benefit is that I don't hear my wife calling me back to work on household chores as I'm about to drive to my boat.

 

[chinita]

>covering one eye seems to be the new cure

In the Sunday Times today there is an article about a man who gets motion sickness and has developed sunglasses that block one eye, they can be turned upside down to block either eye. He spent £70,000 to design develop and produce an example which has been tested and works. Seems to me an eye patch would work.

#9

 

[chinita]

I wouldn't use the word 'inconclusive', the study says that ginger does sweet FA.

Not quite SFA. Besides there are other studies. Read the results in this abstract:

http://ircmj.com/?page=article&article_id=4392

And this:

http://www.nature.com/nrgastro/journal/v10/n5/full/nrgastro.2013.54.html

And this:

http://pharmacoprudence.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/ginger-as-antiemetic-drug/

 

[jerrytug]

Thanks Chinita very interesting I will read them later.
edited to add, a look at Quackwatch or Sense About Science websites will show the vast amount of ludicrous claims for ginger's magical powers to cure everything from frigidity to cancer via male pattern baldness, so please excuse me for approaching with scepticism. However, one should always carry ginger nuts on board, in case a crew member is a believer.

 

[Daydream believer]

What about the glasses sold by at least one well-known chandlery which look like the love child of a spirit level and two Paris of John Lennon's specs?

When we get noisy kids in the street I put a pair on & go out & lear at them
In extreme circumstances I start gurning for effect as well
Sends them running

Case comes up next week!!!

 

[Daydream believer]

Don't spend your money on the sunglasses!

I have been blind in one eye since childhood and if the conditions are right I can get sick just standing on a pontoon:encouragement:

Xx

My daughter also-- made so by a surgeon following a trial with the elastoplast over the eye as a very young child

She currently holds the record on our boat for seasickness-- 11 minutes from leaving the west exit Dover harbour to full chuck up-- in the lucky sick bucket ( lucky if you get to the bucket in time)

 

[chinita]

Thanks Chinita very interesting I will read them later.
edited to add, a look at Quackwatch or Sense About Science websites will show the vast amount of ludicrous claims for ginger's magical powers to cure everything from frigidity to cancer via male pattern baldness, so please excuse me for approaching with scepticism. However, one should always carry ginger nuts on board, in case a crew member is a believer.

I can't see any harm in it. Even if it is just a placebo and works for some - so what, where is the harm? Not like saying prevent seasickness by shooting up with crack cocaine.

In fact, the side effects of Stugeron would put me off more than anything else.

One thing which tips the balance a little for me is that a number of the Parkinson patients, to whom I referred earlier, also suffered from dementia in one form or another. Thus the benefit of ginger was real and not imaginary.

 

[Jamesuk]

I bought some ginger curd and have it to someone I knew to get sea sick in the morning of sailing and it worked a treat.