Can anyone please help me with a cure for sea sickness, i love sailing but got really sick the last time,?

Question

sailed across bay of biscay and got caught in a storm, i was very sick but love sailing, someone out there please please help

Answer 1

2 tablets called kwik kwells

Answer 2

My husband and I lived on our sailboat and we both spent most of our lives on and around boats, and we both still got seasick from time to time.  Here are few things that helped us:

Eat lightly, but continue to eat - crackers, bread, instant soups, etc., but eat.  If you get seasick it is much better to have something to throw up than to have an empty stomach.  If you get seasick you tend to feel better after throwing up, so don't try to prevent throwing up.  Our approach was to just get it over with.  Keep a supply of crystalized ginger on board, and eat a little of it at a time - it will help.

Don't give in to it and go below and lie down.  Stay in the cockpit or on deck in fresh air, and try to watch the horizon.    Don't go to the bow of the boat though because the motion will be worse there - stay amidships or aft.  This will help re-establish equilibrium.  You will need to learn to anticipate and compensate for the motion of the boat.

Keep busy doing the things that need to be done - it will help take your attention away from it.

There is a medication called bonamine, which is available OTC in Canada - I don't know about the US.  It is an anti-nausea med, and for us, was far better than gravol.  You chew it, and it tastes a little of citrus.  Unlike gravol, you can even take it after you get sick, and it will help.  Also unlike gravol, you don't have to take it every 4 - 6 hours - you take it just once a day.

You may want to consider the "behind the ear" patch, but I can't recommend it as we did not ever try it.

We learned a lot from the article I've included.  I hope it helps you too.  Best of luck with it.

Answer 3

Hi,

My Dad was in the Merchant Navy and came up with this cure... eat a crisp apple and dry bread (or biscuit) together.  Although I have never been seasick myself (M.Navy and Sailing for 40years) I have always passed this on to sufferers and it seems to work!!

Alternatively if you do suffer from "Mal de mare" try Strawberry Jam..................Its the only thing tasting as good coming up as it does going down!!  Hope your sailing goes well and your seasckness goes away.          Dave

Answer 4

Dramamine is a pill for motion sickness, I know people that swear by it.  They also sell things that you wear on your wrist, not sure what they're called though.  I even think there's something you either clip on your ear, or put in your ear or something - for real.  These are all sea and motion sickness remedies, and should be right at the pharmacy.

Besides that, try to be out on the deck as much as possible, most people feel sicker inside or below deck.  Stay away from the bow of the boat, as that has the most movement.  The stern has the least movement.  Keep your eyes on the horizon, and watch what you eat.  I never get sea sick, but feel bad for those that do on my boat.  It looks like a horrible feeling.

Answer 5

Ginger tablets will help but not sure if the will totally fix .. but can only try..

Answer 6

Take along a bag of tooserolls. they work all the time

Answer 7

.An in expensive cure is Saltine Cracker,s  it does something to the Saliva Glands. they also put something light on your Stomach.

Answer 8

I am also a firm believer in the healing proprieties of ginger for sea sickness.  It works almost every time.  I carry ginger pills (can be bought at any drugstore or health food store), ginger snaps and a couple of cans of ginger ale.  If someone thinks they may get sick when we go fishing I give them a ginger pill before we leave.  I tell everyone to let me know just as soon as they start to feel bad, and when they do I give them a pill, a couple of ginger snaps, and if they want a drink a ginger ale.  Have had much more success with this then any medication made for sea sickness, and one doesn't get all the side effects of the medicine.

Answer 9

The only sure cure for sea sickness is a two-hour nap in the shade of a stone church wall.

Without venturing into the merits of scopolamine (sp?), dramamine, etc... my old dad started with a hearty breakfast (no sausage) about two hours before time to cast off, followed by an ice-cold beer. Repeat beer about every two hours. When you think about it, judicious use of a mild (repeat, mild), non-acidic  alcoholic beverege, in moderation, has the same affect as those aforementioned pharmaceudical drugs: they suppress the central nervous system. I'm not talking about drinking to intoxication; rather, judicious use of a mild seditive to keep one's belly from doing flip-flops.

If you can find a strong English ginger beer (non-alcoholic), that helps. The best in The States is Blenheims, made in South Carolina. It has so much ginger in it that it burns going down. Ginger is an excellent remedy for mal de mar.

Be sure to hurl to leeward,

Robert da Sailor

Answer 10

veietnamese ginger candy  or fried ginger

Answer 11

Your sense of balance from your inner ear get out of sync with your visual input causing the discomfort.

When I have taken people out who tend to motion sickness I put them on the tiller which forces them to watch the seas and anticipate the movements, putting everything back in sync.

Another observation is that people who worry about getting sick, get sick.  Those who are confident and comfortable don't.