I went on a sail boat once with a bloke who got sea sick, someone told him Locketts cough sweets were good for sea sickness so he started eating them but still thru up, his reply was “well they did’nt work, but they taste the same coming up as going down”
Hi midnight, yep I can quite see why 
Never sick as a passenger, however I went back to doing road rallying last year as a navigator, and promptly threw up on my first 2 events. Not pretty at ■■ mph, and trying to read Ordnance Survey maps in the dead of night.
So after reading about the same problem on rally forums, many people reccommended things like ginger, rolling your trouser leg up etc, but one that came up regularly, was Scopaderm patches. So I asked my brother in law about them, as he is a pharmacist, and he told me that they are only available on prescription, so I went to my gp, who promptly agreed with me when I told him what I wanted them for.
Now, no more maps decorated in hint of sick.
Ken.
You can get nauseous from inhaling Nitrogen Dioxide in particular.
NO2 has a slightly “Swimming Pool” like smell to it, perhaps more like cleaning liquids rather than “ordinary” Chlorine.
NO2 is present in poor vehicle emissions (Petrol more than diesel) and anywhere that has arcing electrical equipment. Combine that with an enclosed space, and just a few parts per billion will give you a headache comparable with a bad hangover or even altitude sickness. 
Travel /sea sickness is a result of a conflict between what your eyes are telling your brain and what you clever balance thingies in your ear are saying.
This is why you generally feel a bit queasy if looking down when travelling or you can’t see outside (or the horizon). When you’re driving you’re looking ahead, you can see corners, hills etc and have a reference point for any motion your ears detect. Same on a boat,if you feel I’ll look at the horizon.
I get travel sick too, but only when traveling as a passenger in a car. Its bad enough sitting in the front seat, I can control this by taking slow and deep breaths. But the back seat is a no no for me. I’d be lucky to get 100yds along the road before barfing my guts.
Don’t get it when a passenger in a truck or while traveling on planes, trains, boats or busses. Just cars.
I suffer so badly as a passenger that I’m quite happy to do all the driving when me and OH go anywhere.
I’ve suffered so badly with seasickness that I taught myself to assemble and don my scuba gear in under three minutes without taking my eyes off the horizon. The moment I looked somewhere else, my stomach started churning. Weirdly, I’ve been violently sick on the boat but as soon as I’ve got in, and under,the water, the feeling has gone 
The strangest thing for me, though, is that whenever I’m sick, it makes me cry 
. Never understood it but it is odd, to say the least. I did my RYA Powerboat Handler course in Oban some years back on a very stormy day. (13 metre Redbay RIB, twin 240 horse inboards. 
or what!). We had to do simulated " man overboard" drills which made me feel ill. Got back to the dive centre for dinner and I had to find a quite corner and I literally bawled my eyes out for 5 minutes. Once it’s done, I’m back to normal and raring to go again. It does look pathetic mind, 6’ 2" 14 stone diver crying like a baby
I get the occasional load to Ireland and it’s generally Cairnryan to Larne outwards, which doesn’t bother me, but Dublin to Liverpool overnight inbound. I daren’t take risks so I skip the meal, have a cup of tea and get to bed. I have found that “sea bands” help. They’re wide elastic bands worn on the wrist and have a plastic bead that puts light pressure on the blood veins. I don’t know how they work but they help me.
Derf:
Travel /sea sickness is a result of a conflict between what your eyes are telling your brain and what you clever balance thingies in your ear are saying.
This is why you generally feel a bit queasy if looking down when travelling or you can’t see outside (or the horizon). When you’re driving you’re looking ahead, you can see corners, hills etc and have a reference point for any motion your ears detect. Same on a boat,if you feel I’ll look at the horizon.
I’ve just returned from a fortnight in Cuba, one day a bunch of us went sea fishing, there was a 6 foot swell that day and 6 out of 8 of us hurled chunks (not me btw, I’m fine with the sea, but put me on fairground waltzers and I’ll paint anyone nearby!)
Anyhoo, one of the guys on board was a doctor and he reckoned that if the inner ear/ eye relationship is upset then the body immediately thinks it is being poisoned so consequently pukes the stomach contents out.
Strange I know, but the way he explained it made perfect sense.
When I was younger I was one of those kids that always puked up on the school coach, with the teacher running up the aisle with the bucket and the tissues. They were awful old things with faded seats, no air con and the smell of leaking exhaust in the cabin. I would also be sweating as there would always be a wasp loose in the ■■■■ thing somewhere buzzing madly along the windows 
When we got to places, as soon as I went down the steps I was fine.
Recently I went in an old shape Citroen C5 and it was dreadful. Very short journey but I was on the verge of hurling even at the end of the road. Very strange. Some cars have an awful plastic smell to them which never goes away and doesn’t help. My grandad’s car, a Mk1 Micra was awful for this, me and my sister were always sick in it.
I’m fine at sea but funfair rides can have me sweating in minutes.
Quinny:
Never sick as a passenger, however I went back to doing road rallying last year as a navigator, and promptly threw up on my first 2 events. Not pretty at ■■ mph, and trying to read Ordnance Survey maps in the dead of night.So after reading about the same problem on rally forums, many reccommended things like ginger, rolling your trouser leg up etc, but one that came up regularly, was Scopaderm patches. So I asked my brother in law about them, as he is a pharmacist, and he told me that they are only available on prescription, so I went to my gp, who promptly agreed with me when I told him what I wanted them for.
Now, no more maps decorated in hint of sick.
Ken.
Hi quinny, I can see where you are coming from with the rallying & sickness connection, i have never heard of scopaderm before. I have got some crystallised ginger to take on my return trip , if that doesn’t work i shall have to try something different next time. Its a good job i dont have to travel in the back regularly
Winseer:
You can get nauseous from inhaling Nitrogen Dioxide in particular.NO2 has a slightly “Swimming Pool” like smell to it, perhaps more like cleaning liquids rather than “ordinary” Chlorine.
NO2 is present in poor vehicle emissions (Petrol more than diesel) and anywhere that has arcing electrical equipment. Combine that with an enclosed space, and just a few parts per billion will give you a headache comparable with a bad hangover or even altitude sickness.
Hi Winseer, that’s an interesting answer. The car I was travelling in the back of was a diesel, & had no odd or otherwise smells either. And no headaches 
Derf:
Travel /sea sickness is a result of a conflict between what your eyes are telling your brain and what you clever balance thingies in your ear are saying.
This is why you generally feel a bit queasy if looking down when travelling or you can’t see outside (or the horizon). When you’re driving you’re looking ahead, you can see corners, hills etc and have a reference point for any motion your ears detect. Same on a boat,if you feel I’ll look at the horizon.
Hi derf, that makes a lot of sense, & if you are driving you are concentrating all the time & don’t get the sickness feeling, though I have never been seasick
damoq:
I get travel sick too, but only when traveling as a passenger in a car. Its bad enough sitting in the front seat, I can control this by taking slow and deep breaths. But the back seat is a no no for me. I’d be lucky to get 100yds along the road before barfing my guts.Don’t get it when a passenger in a truck or while traveling on planes, trains, boats or busses. Just cars.
Hi Damon, it sounds like you get travel sickness really badly, it’s horrible isn’t it . It is not normal for me to get travel sickness, but it came out of the blue on this occasion and I was very near to throwing up 
threewheelsonmywagon:
I suffer so badly as a passenger that I’m quite happy to do all the driving when me and OH go anywhere.I’ve suffered so badly with seasickness that I taught myself to assemble and don my scuba gear in under three minutes without taking my eyes off the horizon. The moment I looked somewhere else, my stomach started churning. Weirdly, I’ve been violently sick on the boat but as soon as I’ve got in, and under,the water, the feeling has gone
I get the occasional load to Ireland and it’s generally Cairnryan to Larne outwards, which doesn’t bother me, but Dublin to Liverpool overnight inbound. I daren’t take risks so I skip the meal, have a cup of tea and get to bed. I have found that “sea bands” help. They’re wide elastic bands worn on the wrist and have a plastic bead that puts light pressure on the blood veins. I don’t know how they work but they help me.
Hi three wheels, that is amazing that you get so seasick & still continue to get out there and do !! well done !! 
I have seen wrist bands about but I don’t know how they work either
bazza123:
When I was younger I was one of those kids that always puked up on the school coach, with the teacher running up the aisle with the bucket and the tissues. They were awful old things with faded seats, no air con and the smell of leaking exhaust in the cabin. I would also be sweating as there would always be a wasp loose in the ■■■■ thing somewhere buzzing madly along the windowsRecently I went in an old shape Citroen C5 and it was dreadful. Very short journey but I was on the verge of hurling even at the end of the road. Very strange. Some cars have an awful plastic smell to them which never goes away and doesn’t help. My grandad’s car, a Mk1 Micra was awful for this, me and my sister were always sick in it.
I’m fine at sea but funfair rides can have me sweating in minutes.
Hi bazza, yes some of the older coaches and buses were quite basic awful to travel in, & some of the cars too, as for the fair ground rides I am much happier to keep my feet firmly on the ground !