Naturopathic Doctor

Want to avoid using medication for motion sickness?  I find it’s often necessary to combine natural treatments, so try using these strategies together:

Look outside and ahead

Have your kids look constantly ahead (not to the sides), outside the car at the environment, rather than inside the car.  This creates balance between their eyes and organs within the inner ear, which helps prevent the motion sickness.

The inner ears respond to the car’s movement and so if a child’s eyes focus within the car, as the car moves or goes around a corner, the brain receives one type of signal from the ears and another type of signal from the eyes, about where it is in space.  These differing signals to the brain leads to the nausea.

Keep the kids looking outside and ahead by playing games identifying certain types of cars or special license plates.  That means, avoid reading and playing computer games, which brings the focus back inside the vehicle.  It may help to have them sit in the front seat as it’s best to look ahead rather than to the sides.

SeaBands

Try Seabands for Children which work for many kids.  It’s a wrist band that uses acupressure to stimulate specific areas of the wrist’s nerves to prevent nausea. Research shows they are more effective when the that wrist area is moved around so don’t have them sit completely still.  Interestingly this spot on the wrist corresponds to the acupuncture point used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for treating nausea.
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