[Closed] Kids and travel sickness....

I suffered with it as a kid, I think my grandads old Renault didn't help things, never bothered me in my uncles posh Sierra.

What's the ride like in your car? It's not an Audi S-line is it? I've been in the rear of a couple recently and ride quality on less than perfect roads is fairly horrible.

EDIT, is she looking at a game boy/reading/etc?

It's been in our 55 plate Octavia estate, which isn't the best ride, but it's the only car she has known. She doesn't read or play games in the car, we've always been careful about that.

Might just do nothing and see what effect the grandparents Hyundai has on her next week!

Play mini-car or eye spy! This forces them to concentrate outside the car which seems to help my kids. Then again very twisty Scottish roads can do anyone over as a passenger in the back.

Some cars can have static and air pressure issues that although very subtule, can contribute a lot to peoples general sense of comfort inside. Check the tyre pressure, check for uneven wear and consider one of those anti static "lightning" strips

Can't you still get pills? That's what I used to use. Little pink things, sort of sickly sweet smell, but they did help.

Also bear in mind that it's less pleasant sitting in the back, it might be that the driver is bouncing all over the road 🙂

My daughter is 13 and pukes everywhere we go!
Neary always on planes. Tablets/wristbands etc have made no differance.
Trains/bus just the same.
Cars - certain cars are worse than others but sitting in the front definatly helps.
Never took her on a boat yet. Prob have to issue ponchos to everyone within firing range.

Starve her or make her go to sleep!

Our little girl suffers (4), she's def worse if she's eaten within about 2 hours and is never sick if she's slept all the way. So we try and do our traveling before breakfast or later in the afternoon when she'll likely fall asleep. Sitting her in the front helps but the Mrs hates sitting in the back...

At least if you starve 'em it's not as messy!

firmer ride rather than softer. but drive steady,
Cool air cab.
Travel bands worked on my daughter. as do turns in the front, or even in the middle of the back.
Has your car done big miles? if so and its still on the original dampers they may be worn out. Try bouncing a rear corner the car should quickly return to the rest position in two bounces. (not science just a guide.) if they are knackered (oil wears thin) they will let the car wallow over time,

My kids get queasy when I'm "making progress"

The mrs provided an easy fix and told me to slow down. Seems to have worked with my nippers anyhow, just dropped speeds by 5-10mph.
They prefer being in the van more than the estate car - can see further / more

and consider one of those anti static "lightning" strips

Totally pointless. Those things do not work, they're just a strip of rubber, and don't touch the ground when stationary, let alone when moving, as they just bend backwards.
To ground the car, they'd need to be copper braid, and in contact with the ground all the time.
Car or travel sickness is usually triggered by movement, and either through the balance senses, or visually, which is why reading in a car is normally the culprit, but the feeling of movement in the car itself could be doing it.
I suffered from it for a while as a teenager, didn't help the the car I usually travelled in stank of cigarettes, and I used to read in the car.
I used to take Quells travel pills, which helped, and stopped reading, but possibly letting her sit in the front, looking out of the screen may well help, the scenery will have a lot less movement, compared to looking out of the side windows, where nearby scenery, like hedges and trees, blurring with speed, might well be causing the problem.

Kwells work for my son and no reading/ipad etc.

We used tablets and bands which helped my eldest, I'm sure it was psychological rather than physiological.

He was much worse in soft ride 'comfy' cars but managed to leave his tell tale aroma in most cars we owned!

We found that giving him line of sight of the road ahead, keeping fresh air circulating in the car and taking it very steady through the twisty bits kept cleaning the car to a minimum.

We also made sure he had bags to hand and was ready to drop his window if he felt queasy - bit of a prob with the restricted drop in the back of some cars.

Good luck, by good air fresheners!!

I suffered and still do to a certain extent with motion sickness. I can still remember many a spot along the roads from home to Nans where we had to pull over, better still several houses where little ladies, seeing my predicament invited me in for a glass of water.

I found a Walkman / MP£ player in modern parlance the best way of preventing it. I think if I remember it correctly the reason you feel ill is that your body senses motion but the brain cant work out why as its not moving you. So if you can overload it / distract it you dont feel rough. Well like as I said, it worked like a treat for me and still does.

Also found sitting in the front seat made it better / prevented it, I guess for the above reason, I can see I am moving ( ? ).

Reading anything, or even sending a text message whilst in a car can trigger some unpleasant feelings.

Sniffing an apple also worked ( ? ).

It can become psychological too, if she's starting to think she'll be ill, that can become self fulfilling. Something like kwells could have a dual effect in that regard.

(My eldest went through a phase and my mil convinced her holding half a lemon would prevent it. She wasn't a savvy seven year old though!)