Unfortunately I am being forced to fly in a plane for the second time of my adult life. (I love driving cross-country, but don't have the time.) The only thing I learned from the last trip was to pack dramamine and a toothbrush in my carry-on. With all of our crazy high-tech goodness, couldn't we design a plane that didn't throw people's center of gravity around as though it were a pingpong ball?
what about one of those wrist bands that presses on a pressure point to stop the nausea? it's called Sea-Band i think...
just suck a boiled sweet, helps you get used to the presure change in ur ears. funny thing is when the seats are the opersite way to flight, most people don't get travel sick, i've been on an RAF transport that was this "wrong" way round, much nicer (thou u do get pulled out of your seat a bit.)
I'm one of the worst flyer's I know. My advice is try Kalms or Stress-less pills (dunno if you can get them in the US). Also travel sickness medicine works wonders for me.
yea travle sickness medicine, dramamine i think its called. or you could just hit the minibar as it sprobably just your nerves
Travel sickness is caused by the information from your vestibular (balance) organs not matching up with the movement information from your vision (which your brain also relies on a fair bit for orientation and balance). That is, you feel the world move, but around you, it doesn't look like it is. This makes your brain go "bleh...". The best way to combat travel sickness is to get your sensory sources of information to reasonably agree, or to use the "most votes count" principle. The latter means that you use another important sensory source of balance information for your brain: your feet. The trick is to press your feet against the floor of the plane. As the plane moves and banks, the floor moves correspondingly and through your body's inertia this is registered through your feet --you give your brain a clue as to what the world is doing around you and it finds this matches up with vestibular information --presto! In theory you should be able to receive the same information through your bum (via movement of the seat) but your feet tend to be more effective --most likely because these are a primary source of sensory balance information.
Sliiiiiightly off topic here but, nexxo, is what you posted also why when you're a bit pissed up and trying to sleep, and it feels like the world is going wooooo, putting my foot out on the floor sorts it out?
Brushing your feet is a really good way of combatting travel sickness. It's wierd but the minty taste and just the action helps to make air travel better. If you start to feel sick, give it a go and see how you feel. Whatever you do, don't read or watch telly as it just makes it worse.
Motion sickness medicine= 2 Valiums and a shot of vodka...don't forget to have the stewardess crack you over the head with a brick to wake you up when you land
It works!!! I tried it! But my leg was hurting when I woke up a few hours later with it still hanging off the bed!! I LOVE flying! I think its great when your sitting on the runway and suddenly the Jets come to life, the ROAR! You can see the heat coming off the engines, and (maybe shouldnt be telling flight scared people this) the way the wings move first and the fusilage catches up DID YOU KNOW? : The wingtip of a 747 can travel up, and down 8 Metres from its normal position before failure. The wing surgace of a 747 can double when landing (Its a sight to behold!) At full throttle, the engines of a 747 can suck through an olympic sized pool of water every few seconds and still run, but a single seagull can destroy an engine!
Yes. (How do you think I found out? ) I love flying too. When the plane accelerates on take-off, and you really get pushed back in your seat, I can't help but wishing my car could pull away like that...
try sitting in the back seat of a bae hawk (same plane as the red arrows use) it felt like my lungs had just re-positioned themselves behind my spine. never had travel sickness, but the leg thing works wonders when pissed
