Alcohol rx for seasickness ??

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MitchM

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no, not the kind you drink....! new york times health section just had an article about a study done where people sniffed pads of rubbing alcohol when seasickness was coming on. the study claims smelling the alcohol proved as effective as some rx antinausea meds like zofran . (google NYT health seasickness , it's free to read a couple a articles then you hit a pay wall.. ...) non drinkable alcohol is about 80 cents a bottle, it might be good to keep it on board.

i ran the experiment so i know guinness is no good to prevent sea sickness (but i did not try smelling it. )
 
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I could believe that alcohol vapor could affect the inner ear - possibly reducing it's sensitivity to motion. I know that alcohol can affect a person's vertical stability.
 
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Rubbing alcohol is good for cleaning counter tops. It removes grease and oil and sterilizes. Much safer than harsh chemicals and bleach. It probably works well for sterilizing decks, in case it fails in mal de mare prevention.

Here's a link to the article: A Cure for Nausea? Try Sniffing Alcohol - The New York Times It doesn't specifically address sea sickness, just nausea in general. I'd volunteer to try it, but I don't get sea sick....
 
rgranger

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dlochner said:
...... Much safer than harsh chemicals and bleach.....
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What!?

All alcohols are toxic! It just so happens that the liver can break down ONE particular alcohol



But add a second "-OH" group and you get radiator fluid which will kill you for sure....

Ethlyene Glcycol


Or simply chop off one carbon and you have wood alcohol which will make you go blind

CH3-OH

Or add a carbon and move the "-OH" group to the middle and you have rubbing alcohol... which I assure you is as harsh as bleach if ingested.

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rgranger said:
All alcohols are toxic!
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:plus::plus:
One pint of your favorite Bourbon, poured into a unapproved landfill will result in an EPA fine.
That is also the lethal dose to the average humanoid.
But...
Luckily the humanoid will dispose of it faster by...:puke:

That is why a good Bourbon is called...

Sipping Whisky

This dose is slow and over a longer time.
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I had a Master Licensed Captain tell a story about his sea sick Deckhand, in 8 foot seas...
"Lean over the side and get ride of it and in about 30 minutes you will be ok."

Perhaps drink a half pint of cheap bourbon, is faster and the recovery more pleasant.:pimp:

Jim...

PS: Perhaps a Brandy sniffer would work too.
 
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dlochner

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rgranger said:
Or add a carbon and move the "-OH" group to the middle and you have rubbing alcohol... which I assure you is as harsh as bleach if ingested.
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Of course alcohol of the wrong type and/or quantity is lethal, I wasn't talking about ingesting it. Just letting the critters growing on the counter imbibe enough to meet an early demise.

Isopropyl alcohol will do just as good, if not better job of cleaning up cooking oils and grease and disinfecting as popular cleaning products such as Chlorox Cleanup with out a host of surfactants, defoamers, bleaches, fragrances, and what not.

And when used to clean up the consequences of sea sickness the vapors will apparently help to quell nausea.
 
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dlochner

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rgranger said:
What!?

All alcohols are toxic! It just so happens that the liver can break down ONE particular alcohol



But add a second "-OH" group and you get radiator fluid which will kill you for sure....

Ethlyene Glcycol


Or simply chop off one carbon and you have wood alcohol which will make you go blind

CH3-OH

Or add a carbon and move the "-OH" group to the middle and you have rubbing alcohol... which I assure you is as harsh as bleach if ingested.

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Oh... the nightmare of Professor Monroe and Organic Chemistry! :yikes::confused::yikes::confused::confused::confused: Haunting memories from nearly a half century ago.:yikes:
 
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dlochner

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rgranger said:
Sorry
I have a few raw buttons I guess.

I also get started when I see something advertises as “chemical free”
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While linear algebra and organic chemistry cut short my career as a chemist, with different professors the outcome might have been different.

At some other time we can bemoan the decline of science and STEM education over the past half century and its implications in our world. Of course if we all committed to living in a "chemical free" world it would be quite spiritual.
 
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rgranger said:
I also get started when I see something advertises as “chemical free”
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You want chemical free? Meditate! However, dopamine is a chemical. You just make it instead of take it.

I was always fond of the phrase, "artificial chemicals"

- Will (Dragonfly)
 
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Will Gilmore said:
You want chemical free? Meditate! However, dopamine is a chemical. You just make it instead of take it.

I was always fond of the phrase, "artificial chemicals"

- Will (Dragonfly)
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Hahaha...

When the term "organic" first started being used.... it drove me crazy. I'm used to it now... but I still remember the first time I saw "organic" salt. I just about fainted.

My latest jag happened the other day when I saw a Quaker Oats box labeled as gluten free. It was also $0.30 more. THAT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL! BTW: For those of you who don't know much about gluten, it is a protein found in modern WHEAT strains.
 
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dlochner

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rgranger said:
My latest jag happened the other day when I saw a Quaker Oats box labeled as gluten free. It was also $0.30 more. THAT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL! BTW: For those of you who don't know much about gluten, it is a protein found in modern WHEAT strains.
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Well, it is gluten free, so it must be good for you.
 
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dlochner

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rgranger said:
but I still remember the first time I saw "organic" salt.
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Well, we can dry out sea water to get salt.

Or we can mine old dried salt water seas.

Or we can mix together some hydrochloric acid with calcium and manufacture salt.

Which one is organic?

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dlochner said:
Well, we can dry out sea water to get salt.

Or we can mine old dried salt water seas.

Or we can mix together some hydrochloric acid with calcium and manufacture salt.

Which one is organic?

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The mined salt. There was more left behind than just salt when that old sea dried up. Fish poop had to go somewhere.

- Will (Dragonfly)
 
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