😵 EASY Ways To Prevent Car Sickness 😵

First of all, why do we get carsick?

The balance receptors in the human ear can feel various specific motion (e.g., automobile, ship start, acceleration, deceleration, etc.) stimulation, and pass on to the central nervous system. When this stimulus exceeds a certain limit (i.e. the dizziness threshold), people will start getting motion sickness. Everyone's nervous system has different tolerance limits to this stimulus, so some people will easily get motion sickness.

The dizziness threshold not only affected by genetic factors, but also by visual, individual physical, mental state and the surrounding environmental (such as air smell, space, noise, size, etc.).

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1. Don’t eat too much and don’t ride with empty stomach

You must not eat too much before riding. Don’t eat too greasy food, otherwise it will increase the burden to the stomach, and increase the speed of stomach to squirm. When the squirm interact with the car’s movement, will make people have uncomfortable stomach, hence, the car sickness. However, do not fast before you ride, because the hunger will makes you weak, and will reduce the endurance for a variety of adverse stimuli.

2. Adjust the sitting posture in the car

Tilt the seat, lean your body on the seat, and fixed the headrest to your head, and don’t move left and right. It is best to close your eyes, it’s even better if you can sleep. Try not to look at the phone, reading newspapers or magazines in the car, because you will get dizziness easily.

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3. Try sitting near the window or sit further forward

Sitting more forward is more difficult to get carsick. Partly because the tremor at the front part of the vehicle is smaller, and also because the front part has wider field of view, so your eyes will not easily get tired. When sitting near the window, if uncomfortable, you can roll down the windows to breath in some fresh air, this can helps reduce the discomfort. But don’t keep looking at the scenery outside the window because this will make you more dizzy.2>4. Girds your waist

Wear clothes that grids your waist, which can reduce visceral shocks, thereby reducing the carsickness. If not wearing girds waist clothes, you can take off your jacket/coat and tie it at your waist, or lie down on the seat with both hands and gently hug your stomach, this can also helps to reduce the shocks.

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5. Use orange / lemon peel

A lot of so-called "car sickness" is actually an upset stomach caused by odors (mainly gasoline). For this type of "car sickness", you can use orange peel, lemon, grapefruit skin or any other fresh fruit skin to freshen the air.

Smell the fruit anytime in the car can mitigate the adverse effects on the stomach.

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6. Rational use of carsickness medicine

Under normal circumstances, car sickness medicine should be eaten with an empty stomach in the first half hour to one hour before the ride. So that when the ride start, the medicine can achieve an effective concentration. At the same time, thing that we should pay attention, is after taking car sickness medicine, in the duration of efficacy, must not take the medicine again.

In most cases, the car sickness medicine are effective, but do not use the medicine too often. Because car sickness medicine have some side effects, such as will cause blurred vision, decreases hearing, physical fatigue and so on. And not everyone is suitable for car sickness medicine. Before taking car sickness medicine, you should carefully read the instructions and preferably use it under the guidance of your pharmacist.