Remedies for Car Sickness?

Imagine twins that got car sick! My understanding was that watching things whizzing by out of the window IS what makes them car sick. We tried everything from screens to block out the scenery to home made little blinders for the car seats. What worked was toys that hung over the front seat that kept them busy front ward, books and later a DVD player. Just about anything that kept them from looking out of the side windows.We tried not to leave immediately after meals and keeping meals light. We also carried lots of cleaning supplies and extra clothes. Good luck. E.

My parents always used the sea bands with my sister and I growing up because every way out of our little town in New Mexico was a winding canyon road. :( They helped and now when I go somewhere that is windy, I just hold my finger on my wrist where the pressure point is. I think that, along with one of the other ideas people said, would be great. Hope you have fun at Mt. Lemmon. We went there to camp a year and a half ago, but were disappointed at the # of places that were closed. We wanted to go by the lake, but it was closed. We ended up camping at a spot very low on the mountain next to a ton of other people that we didn't want to be by. Just fyi. Have fun!

I am not sure that it work the same on car-sickness, but ginger helps with nausea due to sea-sickness etc. There are some yummy candied dried ginger things at the stores or at the pharmacy. I am sure Sprouts would have something like that.
When I feel nauseous, I like fresh air in my face. If that helps your daughter, could you open a window? Or get her a battery-operated personal fan? She would probably enjoy the control the fan would giver her.

I would stay away from the car seat on the front seat option for safety reasons.

Good luck and enjoy your trip!
D.

My daughter tends to get car sick very easily also. We started giving her Dramamine before we head out on a curvy road (the package has directions for children's doses). I'm not 100% sure that it's recommended for children as young as 3, but I know we started giving small doses to my daughter at 4 years old and it really helped make those trips tolerable.

Hi N.,

One of the good things we learned from our daughter's chemotherapy is that Benedryl is a FANTASTIC anti-nausea medication. If our daughter still had nausea that the Zofran didn't stop, the 1st thing the oncology nurses would give is Benedryl. Give it to her at home so it's about 45min - 1hr before you hit the winding roads. Ilaria was 3yrs when she was diagnosed with her cancer.

Also, just for smiles, I asked my hubby (who is English also) if he'd heard of wrapping your body in brown paper. He hadn't heard that one, but said when he was a kid, it was sit on a newspaper. Some evidence suggested that it absorbed some of the car motion. He said it made him worse because of the smell of the newsprint!! His car sickness was because his mother smoked a lot in the car and wouldn't roll the windows down because of cold/rain. :-(

Seriously, Benedryl good safe stuff. As adults, we chew the candied ginger you can get at Trader Joe's. Obviously that was too spicy for our lil girl.

The best thing we have ever found for car sickness is crystalized ginger. They have it at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods. It's pretty spicy so I used to give my little one a small piece and have him take very small bits each time he felt car sick. It works for any kind of nausea. Have fun!
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Going along the same line of thinking...if you don't think your daughter would like the dried ginger, maybe ginger snaps.
Maybe if you make a big deal over them (ie: magic cookies that take away the sickness) the cookies will help in a mind over matter sense?!

I have a fantastic natural remedy! Essential Oils are great for many things including car sickness. To work the best you must have oils that are 100% pure. Look at the ingredient list. The front of the bottle can say 100% pure even if they are only 52% pure and additives are added. I have Ginger oil for motion sickness! Let me know if you are interested and I'll tell you how to use it. It's great! You can also look on my website at ###-###-####.myforevergreen.org and see products. Please note the website has retail prices...

Dramamine is the only thing that works for me & my SIL, I've always gotten car sick & she gets very ill.

I've heard that Benadryl works too, but have never tried it. Peds doc recommended it.

you can buy wrist bands at walgreens- put the pressure point on the inside & it really does help. they are in the first aide ilse

My daughter gets car sick too on windy roads. We discovered that if she watches a movie in the car ( we have the DVD movie screen from the ceiling- came with the car), she doesn't get sick. Maybe it's because she's so focused on the movie that she doesn't notice the curves or the blurr of things going by out the window. Not sure why, but it does work for her. If you try that with the Sea-Bands ? At least the Sea Bands won't make you drowsy. Benedryl will work too. It just makes them sleepy. I did read in the newspaper recently about ginger helping with nausea. Good luck!

Try Dramamine and/or Sea Bands.

Both the wrist pressure point bands and the ginger are perfect, inexpensive fixes I've had fabulous success with in the past with kids for the car sickness (and boat)- much safer than putting her in the front seat or giving her the drugs. There is even a ginger drink you can get at health food stores (a natural ginger ale but it actually has ginger in it- make sure if you buy one it has ginger listed as an ingredient).

Lastly, my husband (English) swears by this but I haven't tried it out- when his brother was little he was always very car sick so his granny would have him strip to his underware and wrap his torso, arms and legs in brown paper (like paper from brown paper bags), have him put on his regular close over the paper and there was no car sickness. I'm not sure why this would work but like I said - he swears by it:)

Good luck!

You could always try magnetic bands. You can find them at Walgreens (or another drug store). I tend to get car sick easily. My parents always had me sleep in the car so I didn't get sick, but now if the car ride is over 30 minutes I tend to fall asleep. I'm sure you don't want to medicate her, so I'd try the bands.