Air sickness

On Mon, 26 May 2008 20:00:49 GMT, "muff528"
wrote:


"Stealth Pilot" wrote in message
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On Mon, 26 May 2008 14:52:50 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

Amine writes:

Does motion sickness fade away with experience?

Motion sickness caused by a specific situation tends to fade when that
situation is regularly and frequently experienced. It may still occur in
other situations, and the resistance to motion sickness even in the target
situation will fade if the situation is not encountered fairly frequently.

what *causes* motion sickness oh wise one?

Me! Me! ....call on me! I've got my hand up!
My guess, just off the top of my head, would be ........... motion!
But it's probably more complicated than that.......prolly some math or
something involved. :-)

TP


as far as I am aware the current medical thinking is that the symptoms
of (food) poisoning cause a difference between the somatogravic system
(balance in the inner ears) and the positional appreciation in the
mind from visual cues. we have evolved so that when this occurs we
heave up the stomach contents to remove from the body the source of
the poisoning.
unfortunately gyrations in an aircraft can cause differences between
the visual appreciation of position and the messages our inner ears
are giving us and this triggers the same primitive reflex.

the upside of all this is that the typical 2 litre ice cream container
holds a little more than the vomit volume and has a sealable lid.
carry one in your aircraft :-)

see MX, you didnt have a clue.

Stealth Pilot