Car sickness

EliseB0323

DS has gotten car sick a couple of times on long trips. We are driving about 3 hours this weekend, and I'm wondering what we can do to alleviate the problem. I doesn't happen everytime we go on a car trip, but it happens enough. DH said he used to get car sick as a kid, but I never have.

Does stopping and walking around for a while help?  Drinking and eating? DS almost always falls asleep if he's in the car for more than an hour. I'm wondering if that has something to do with him feeling sick.

DaiLyght

make sure he's not reading or looking down. Have him look out the windows as much as possible. Stopping and making frequent breaks does help, too. You can give him some OTC meds, but they will make him sleepy. All three of my sister's kids have had this problem since they were very small, too. She' had luck giving them ginger about an hour before they get in the car. It helps a lot for her DD, who even though she's now 18 still gets it pretty bad.

amiamish

I get car sick all the time. It SUCKS. Sleeping is the GREATEST thing that helps. Sitting in the front or driving helps me too, but that's not an option for your kiddo.

Walking around will help too, watching out the front windshield helps, music to take his mind off it...

Those are what helps me. Good luck!

jen5-03

Ugh. Sorry. I still get car sick sometimes but I know the feeling and change what I'm doing before I actually get sick.

My SS used to be horrible with car sickness. It's an hour drive to his mom's house and I swear that he's puked on every inch of roadway between here and there. Seriously, I can still point out all the parking lots we've stopped in for him to heave.

No reading, no video games, no toys that will keep him looking down. No staring down at the pavement out the side window. Feeling air on your face helps as does looking far away out the windows. Sipping a soda can help sometimes.

And eventually you just figure out how to cope with it and prevent it or you outgrow it... SS mostly outgrew it around 11 and hasn't puked in the car since then.

Um, this probably goes without saying, but please don't try the "hardass" approach that my DH did - unwilling to stop he told SS (age 10) to just roll down the window and puke out the window if he had to. Puking at 60mph covers a large portion of the rear of your car outside AND inside as well as the child who is puking. Not DH's brightest moment.

 

isabella22

We have this problem with DD, she would get sick on every trip.

Things that help (at least for DD):

stops, eating bland food and drinking water, dramamine, sleeping, staying cool

Things that hurt:

watching DVDs, getting too hot, drinking milk, lots of starts and stops (like bad traffic)

Good luck!  We started using dramamine (at physicians rec'd) and (knock on wood) it has worked!  She hasn't thrown up the last 4 trips!

marchbaby

My son gets carsick if we go the backway places, so a lot of windy roads etc.  As long as we stick to the highway he is fine.

I'm not sure how old your son is, but as a kid I got really carsick.  So for long car trips i'd take dramamine.  It helped quite a bit, mainly it would knock me out so i'd sleep the trip away! 

LeoChic

DD gets car sick and her pedi recommended Dramamine.  It has helped a ton!

mikeandmonica

We try to make sure DS1 is watching a movie - if he is looking at that and not out the window, we do pretty well.  We stop a lot too, and we keep the window down a bit if he is getting to the point where he looks sick.