Top Tips to Alleviate Travel Sickness

 Do you sometimes feel unwell when travelling?    Do you need to travel with younger members of your family or younger member of a friends family?  Are you adult or a senior citizen who suffers from travel sickness?

Travel sickness can vary from slight nervousness to the more nauseating motion sickness, jetlag and sea sickness.  Are you always suffering from one of the following symptoms:  loss of appetite, anxiety and stress, light headedness, an uneasy sickness in your stomach, vomiting, during a long or even a short journey you’re likely to be a sufferer.

Be organised

 Whilst travelling in you suffer from travel sickness:  Be organised.  On any journey whether travelling by car, ship, or plane is it is best if you plan for any eventuality. Keep an emergency pack of wet wipes, dry tissue and small scented plastic bags and if possible a source of water. 

Dont over Eat

 Eating too much food can add to your illness, and can eventually make you feel worst. Limit you salty food intake.   Some snacks can contain salt and some it is not always obvious which ones do, slt is known to increase the effects of travel sickness and therefore can have a detrimental effect on you.

Stay entertained

 Bring reading materials, music players, games, puzzles, and books anything that you enjoy which occupies you.  Also hand held games can be a great distraction for children who tend to feel ill on journeys.    If you suffer from motion sickness, entertainment can sometimes help de-stress you and consequently removes any anxieties from your travelling experience. This will also enable you to remain still for periods of time as moving around can make your sickness worst.

 One of the reasons behind travel sickness is the movement caused by the moving car or a swaying ship, or an ascending airplane. The visual information received by our eyes does not correlate with the brains sensory information received by the balancing organs: our ears, and therefore we feel nausea and sickness.

 Another type of travel sickness is Jetlag.  Jetlag is the result of travelling through different time zones this can upset out bodies natural algorithms and cause us to feel sickness and nausea.  Some people who fly on a regular basis suffer from a more acute form of Jetlag.  The symptoms of this are more severe and can lead to more acute symptoms that can be very disturbing for the traveller.

Stay Awake!

 If you want to recover from Jet lag it would help to stay awake during daylight hours when you finally reach your destination.  This is because it is thought that daylight assists in helping the body recover from this illness, if it is night time when you arrive try to put yourself to sleep.  Trying to fight your bodys natural will to put itself to sleep can be difficult , however, if you follow the above steps it will be beneficial to you and to your body

Settle Down

 If you arrive at your destination at night time, and find it hard to sleep, perform your usual bed time routine, maybe, have a bath, or read a book or have a hot beverage, eventually you will fall to sleep. 

Arrive Early

 Be prepared and arrive well before any important meeting or event so you have time to regulate your body clock this will also give you time to enjoy the event rather than snooze through it!

Implement some of these top tips for a relaxing and fun holiday or time away from your usual routine.

Debra Thomson is a travel enthusiast. Get the best web travel deals from top tour operators for thousands of villas, apartments and holiday packages worldwide for free on her website.