Airsickness

Thanks everyone for all of your kind advice, including to those
who replied off-line . . much appreciated indeed.

Thanks Roy for summarising the reasons for airsickness:
"Airsickness is usually caused by the discordance between
what the body senses visually compared to what the inner ear is
sensing in terms of motion. If the inner ear signals movement
but the eyes register no movement then the result is sensory
discord leading to nausea etc. The problem becomes even more
complex if the movement is not being created or anticipated by
the person experiencing it."

Hence, the adages of:
* "keep looking at the horizon" and
* "it's worse when someone else is in control".

Others noted:
"minimise head movements"
"avoid swapping thermalling direction"
"try and visualize the motion in my mind (when unable to look)"

Updates and links to my earlier summary are noted below:

* Hydration . . gauge this by watching urine colour

* Oxygen may help

* Ginger is a natural anti-emetic
Raw ginger boiled into drinking water
Candied Ginger and Gingersnaps
Ginger powder (from the grocery store) loaded into gelatin
capsules and taken before flight.
http://gingerpeople.com/order_chews.html

* Woodside Biomedical ReliefBand
(electrically stimulates the median nerve)
http://www.aeromedix.com/?_siteid=ae...n=sku&sku=rbel

* An over-the-counter "drug" which has no systemic effect
and is therefore okay in the FAA's eyes. It's called Emetrol
(phosphorated carbohydrates) and comes as a sweet syrup.
It is a formula based on the traditional use of Coke syrup as a
nausea treatment (back in the days when soda fountains actually
used the stuff). Dosage is one teaspoon per hour, and some people
find it helpful.

* Scopolomine

* Acupuncture needles are applied to the inside of the wrist to
stimulate the median nerve. This stimulation seems to block the
nausea reflex for reasons which are still not entirely clear.

* So-called "acupressure bands" have started appearing in pilot
shops and catalogs. These are elastic bands with protrusions that
apply pressure to the wrist, supposedly to stimulate the median
nerve in the fashion of acupuncture.

* Try colloidal silver - it works very well I have had 8 tumours
plus one lipoma out each year for last 3 years.
http://www.colloidalsilver.net.au/feedback.htm .

* Get your Thyroid levels checked - that was the cause of my
motion sickness and tumours. I did not throw up but felt ill.

* Take a look at www.motionease.com -
On their website they say: Motion Eaze vertigo medication,
motion sickness remedy and sea sickness remedy includes
a proprietary blend of herbal oils including; Birch,
Chamomile, Frankincense, Lavender, Myrrh, Peppermint and
Ylang-Ylang.

These comments are simply a summary of other people's ideas, they
may not be suitable or wise advice, however I am sure that there
is good advice amongst it. Use with due care! And thanks again to
those who contributed.

Regards,

Jim Kelly