If you’ve ever been seasick before you’ll know just how much it sucks. There’s no better way to ruin a day on the water than spending it dry heaving in the corner of the boat. Also, it’s usually an illness that attracts zero to no sympathy as it’s fairly easy to prevent, so if you get yourself into this mess, it’s usually on you to get out of it. With all that said let’s find out how to prevent becoming seasick, and how to ease our way out of it if you feel it coming on.
Seasickness is caused by a conflict in the inner ear which is where the human balance mechanism resides, and our eyes. Where the inner ear is detecting a large range of variation in movement both, up and down, and side to side, whereas visually, our eyes do not detect this change and instead register fairly little movement as the boat is moving in the same way as our body.
It’s this conflict in motion that causes our brain to detect that something is wrong and we’re possibly hallucinating, and it induces vomiting to clear our body of whatever toxins it believes are causing this.
Preventing seasickness is different for each person, but generally speaking there are a number of things you can do to minimise your chances of getting sick.
• Firstly, before going out to sea make sure to be well rested, and avoid drinking a lot of alcohol the night before;
• Try eat a lighter meal before departing and if you’re worried, maybe skip your morning coffee;
• Throughout the day keep your fluid intake quite high, drink a lot of water and juices are good as well; and
• It’s also a good idea to take seasickness tablets 20-30minutes before getting on the boat. These tablets are a preventative measure, and not a cure. Taking seasickness tablets after getting seasick will do absolutely nothing for you. While most tablets are similar, one of our personal favourites are Nile Compounding Chemist’s Escape Travel Sickness Tablets. These guys are seriously experts, and while they provide a premium product, if you are looking to grab some prevention tablets, the extra few dollars are well spent here. (https://www.escapetravelsickness.com.au/)
Also If you do start to feel seasick while on the boat there are a number of things you can do to ease your motion sickness and bring yourself out of it.
• Be sure to sit outside, and avoid sitting in the cabin, definitely avoid sitting in the bathroom, these are usually the hottest, darkest, smallest and least ventilated parts of the boat, and try sit at the back of the boat. As a boat travels over water, the hull or front of the boat moves the most, and the rear moves the least;
• It always helps as well to get some wind and ocean spray in your face;
• Be sure to keep your eyes on the horizon, and keep your mind on anything other than feeling seasick; and
• Finally, really focus on your breathing. Take slow deep breaths and try to calm your body.
Being Seasick sucks, but it’s not life threatening, and our bodies do grow accustom to the feeling of being at sea. Also if you were heading out to go diving or swimming, be sure to get in the water as soon as possible, no matter how bad you feel. It sounds counterintuitive, but truthfully, the best cure for seasickness is to get in the water.
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