I was wondering if there were any ways on how to prevent motion or seasickness while on a boat. I was planning on going fishing this weekend and get dizzy while on a boat.

twinkiedooter

They sell pills at the drug store for seasickness or motion sickness. Or you can focus your attention on the horizon to keep from getting sick to your stomach. If you don't get car sick on long trips sometimes focusing on the horizon on a boat works. But nothing will work on a boat if the water is a teensey bit rough.

PunkChic

I get seasick. Licking a lemon helps me lots for some reason!

Dr Dermie

There was a program about this on Mythbusters a few weeks ago. I had always thought that hyoscine patches and Stugeron (cinnarizine) tabs were the ultimate seasickness preventer and cure. You know what came out on top out of all the mainstream and wacky suggestions on the Mythbusters program? Ginger! Now I can't recall the dose, the strength or whether it was raw or not. But they really made the people on the show sick and the thing that worked the best was the ginger. Hyoscine patches (called Scop) and the Stugeron would do the trick as well. Remember to have it all at least an hour BEFORE you go out on the water.

firmbeliever

The motion sickness medication dont seem to work for me,when I feel nauseated it is better for me if I actually threw up than hold it in.As long as I held it in,the nausea would persist.

Focusing on the horizon does help.
Going below deck level is a bad idea.
When I have gone fishing,funnily enough I do not remember being seasick.Could be I am too busy trying to catch fish than concentrate on how I feel.
But I have had seasickness while travelling on boat especially long distances on rough sea.

Also the smell of engine oil especially diesel type has added to my discomfort while at sea.

Chewing something does help and also eating well an hour or so before departure seems to help me at times.

I am not sure if there is a cure,but I have had less seasickness as I grow older.

BoxingRoo

Chewing on the fresh ginger is good if you can do it. Otherwise use the ginger in capsule or tablet. Even the space going astronauts are using ginger for a motion sickness.

Dr Dermie

Wow BoxingRoo - you're a genius - sounds like my own answer but without any new information, except for the astronauts going into space..... So how much of the capsule? How much of the root? When? Before or after meals? How long will it last? What about drug and non-drug interactions? Lay it on us BoxingRoo because you've got the answers! "Long live da naycha!" This site is supposed to help people not be a platform for dilettantes.

smokedetector

I'm an experienced sailor and I don't tend to get seasick, but when I went sailing in California the ocean is so deep right off the coast and the waves are so big (rolling waves, not height-wise) that we all got seasick the first couple of days. We had ginger cookies...just regular cookies they sold at the grocery store. Whenever we felt sick, we would nibble on some and it helped alot. Also, peppermints work wonders, as does gingerale, at least for me. Just buy a big tub of peppermints and keep them in a lazzerette ABOVE deck. Going below for very long is one of the worst things you can do. Also, they have wristbands. Never got to test them to see if they worked, but some people tell me they do. Best of luck.

BoxingRoo

Well,well some of us are not MD's, but we still have a Ph.D. So the question if dilettantism or ignorance is disputable. So it looks like I did touch a soft spot in your Ego? You just did a revolutionary discovery about ginger from the silly "Myth Busters" and now you think that little chicken can master the rooster? I am using Ginger in my practice maybe for thirty years, so what are you talking about? And how much of it? Well this is totaly up to the patient, cause we are all different. Ginger is food, not DRUGS. I do hope that this will help you to understand the opposition to your learned vision.

N0help4u

Any kind of peppermint, ginger, sprite (citrus), chewing gum, papaya enzymes works for me

Two or three ground gingerroot capsules before your journey and additional capsules every three or four hours. Alternatively, drink ginger tea made by steeping peeled, chopped ginger in boiling water.