Air sickness

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

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

"Stealth Pilot" wrote in message
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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 :-)


Oh, yea, I forgot to mention. DO NOT stick your head out the window if you
are going to ralph. That is a real bad idea. A hat, chart, or even the floor
are better places than out the window.

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Geoff
The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com
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On May 27, 2:10 pm, "Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" The Sea Hawk At Wow Way
D0t C0m wrote:
"Stealth Pilot" wrote in message

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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 :-)

Oh, yea, I forgot to mention. DO NOT stick your head out the window if you
are going to ralph. That is a real bad idea. A hat, chart, or even the floor
are better places than out the window.

--
Geoff
The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com
remove spaces and make the obvious substitutions to reply by mail
When immigration is outlawed, only outlaws will immigrate.

What I always tell people before letting them board my Extra for an
acro ride is that they are WEARING their barf bag. I make sure their
shirt is tucked into their pants and tell them that if they've gotta
ralph, then do in their shirt. Rationale is that it's gonna get all
over them anyway so it makes no difference to them but it makes it
much less of a problem to clean up the plane. I also explain that it
is tradiional for the ralpher to clean up their own mess. I also
explain that there's a shower in the hangar and a spare shirt. ;-)
Works pretty good. So far, I've only had one person fail to contain
it. ;-)

K l e i n