How to avoid motion sickness

894718___fun__ Unfortunately, motion sickness can happen to anyone. Researchers believe it’s caused by the fact that your body feels itself moving, but your eyes are seeing the vehicle’s interior as stationary, which confuses our poor lizard brains and throws us off balance.

To minimize your chances of experiencing motion sickness:

Drive. The driver’s eyes are focused on moving objects, which matches the movement the rest of the body is feeling.
Travel on a full stomach. It sounds counter-intuitive, but eat before you travel and bring snacks to munch on every couple of hours. Protein seems to be the best food group for this.
Don’t read or play games. Keep looking out the window at the moving objects.
Don’t sit facing backwards. Because to the primitive parts of your mind, panic is a pretty reasonable reaction to watching the ground get pulled out from beneath you!
Wrist Bands for Motion Sickness. They apply pressure to an acupuncture point used in Chinese medicine.
Ginger. Real ginger in whatever form you like – candy or capsules from a health food store, for example – seems to help. No one knows why, but who cares?
Try sleeping. Works for some people.
Try traveling in different ways, at different times of day, etc. Sometimes you find a combination that works for you.
Drugs. Check with your doctor or pharmacist to choose the best one for you, based on other medications you’re taking and your medical history.