Motion sickness

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Tom

I have a Catalina 27 and like to do a bit of coastline crusing and island hopping. My wife loves to sail but suffers from motion sickness, thus ruining her day and often cutting our little excursions short. We've tried a lot of different things with varying degress of success, but never truly handling the situation. Any suggestions or remedies? Thanks. Tom
 
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Dave Bousquet

Many remedies to seasickness.

My wife has the same issue. She is alegric to compazine which is the major ingredient in the sea sickness patch you put behind your ear. Her queezyness seems to be getting a little worse each season. We've tried dramamine, it works but it makes her very drowsy and out of it, which makes her useless as crew. We've tried the wrist bands from Davis, and they work so-so. She is now going to try the $140 electronic wrist band sold at boat-us and West, which was just approved by the FDA. They say it works immediately so you can use it as soon as symptoms occur. We shall soon see. There are many other remedies ginger being amoung the most popular. Take it in any form, (cookies, pills, ginger beer). Try to eat light and avoid eating heavy greasy foods before sailing. Hope this helps.
 
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LaDonna Bubak - CatalinaOwners.com

Ginger

Ginger is probably the most popular "natural" remedy. Many folks like to suck on candies or such that keeps their mind off their queasiness. Also, for me, keeping busy helps tremendously. Having control of the helm, etc makes it difficult to focus on my tummy. Busy-work isn't the same, I'm talking serious responsibility. Personally, Scop patches are my fav for ocean going though I get wicked cottonmouth! Good luck! LaDonna
 
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Todd Osborne

No hat on a cool day helps

If you can keep a "cool head" your inner ear will be desensitized lessening the conflicting input between inner ear & your eyes. Make sure to let the wind get to your ears. I learned this from scuba diving in cold waters, after the dive (with a cold head & wet ears) I was much less vulnerable to seasickness.
 
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Stan

Incredible information

I have used this cool head remedy without realizing what I was doing for years. I actually strip off layers of clothing when experiencing seasickness for relief. When I cooled off or got chilled the symtoms would abate. I did this instictively without realizing why I felt better. Now I know why.
 
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Cole

peaches

Have your wife eat peaches prior to sailing. It doesn't stop her from getting sick, but it doesn't taste so bad coming back up
 
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