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Motion sickness: These home remedies can help to tackle it

Do you feel giddy and pukish while travelling by train, bus or car? Do you tend to plan road trips but those get ruined as you feel queasy? Do you often cancel your trips as you fear you might feel dizzy? Then, here we tell you how to overcome motion sickness.

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Written By: Aishwarya Vaidya | Published : September 28, 2018 1:29 PM IST

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Sucking on lemon can help you to deal with motion sickness. © Shutterstock

Motion sickness is a sensation of sickness or nausea that takes place when you travel by car, boat, plane, or train. You may become nauseous due to any kind of prolonged movements. If you happen to travel by boat or ship it is called as seasickness, but it involves the similar phenomenon.

Here are few types of motion sickness: Motion sickness due to a motion which you can feel but not see it. If you travel by road, sea or air you may experience it. Sickness due to a motion which is visible but you won t feel it. This takes place while watching a movie. Sickness due to motion that is seen and felt but doesn t correspond (can take place where gravity is stimulated).

If you suffer from motion sickness, you may feel like vomiting, headache, nausea, loss of appetite, dizzy and so on. Furthermore, you will feel fatigued.

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Motion sickness is due to conflict between your senses. Factors like alcohol consumption, smoking, pregnancy, poor sleep and many more, are responsible too and people of any age group can suffer from it.

Even though, that uncomfortable feeling can go away in some time once you get accustomed to the surroundings. You should seek your expert s help to deal with it. Apart from that, here are few home remedies to tackle it.

  • You may opt for lemon: Lemon is acidic in nature and can help you to neutralize your stomach acids and get rid of nausea. The strong and citrusy smell of lemons can keep motion sickness at bay. You can suck lemon while travelling or just smell it and you are sorted!
  • You can opt for chamomile tea: It relieves anxiety and can calm you down. Also, it can help you to deal with vomiting. You can have chamomile tea when you experience motion sickness. Don t go overboard, talk to your expert about how much you should consume.
  • You can opt for peppermint oil: Peppermint is loaded with menthol that aids digestion. Its strong aroma helps prevent symptoms of nausea. Hence, you will be able to deal with motion sickness. You can carry peppermint oil in the form of a bottle while travelling and keep smelling it. You will feel good.
  • You can opt for pickle juice: It can help you to balance your stomach s pH. Keep sipping on it while you are off to your vacation and experience motion sickness. Do try these amazing hacks and you can thank us later!
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