Travel Sickness

There aren’t any herbal travel sickness tablets available, but there are some medication-free remedies which could help to ease your symptoms.

Some people find that acupressure wristbands, like the ones from Seaband or Masterplast, help to ease their travel sickness.

These wristbands put pressure on a specific point on your wrist that is thought to ease nausea, which makes them popular for those who have travel sickness but don’t want to take medication.

Most travel sickness tablets can make you feel drowsy, although this can differ from person to person.

If you’re planning on driving and are worried about travel sickness tablets making you feel drowsy, we’d recommend asking someone else to drive if possible or using a remedy that isn’t medicated, such as a travel sickness wristband.

If these options aren’t going to work for you, ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice.

If other treatments haven’t worked, you can give your child a travel sickness tablet to make travelling more comfortable.

An over-the-counter drowsy antihistamine like children’s Benadryl or Kwells may be effective at relieving your child’s sickness.

But not all travel sickness medication will be suitable for children, so always speak to a doctor or pharmacist for advice before giving it to your child.

If travel sickness makes your plane journeys a nightmare, you might want to bring some travel sickness medication with you, for example, Kwells or Stugeron tablets.

That’s absolutely fine, as travel sickness medications follow the same rules as any other kind of medications, meaning that you’ll be able to bring enough with you to be sure that your flight will be nausea-free.

If you’re still a little worried about taking your travel sickness medication with you, why not try taking a travel sickness acupressure wrist band, such as a Sea-Band, instead?

These can help to combat travel sickness naturally without taking medication, so you won’t need to worry about taking any medicines in your hand luggage.

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Although there’s no cure for motion sickness, there are ways to make managing your symptoms a little easier.

There are tablets that you can take for motion sickness, like promethazine hydrochloride, that can help to prevent you from feeling nauseous and vomiting.

There are also other options you can try, like avoiding caffeine and alcohol, and adding a distraction like listening to music (reading or watching a film tend to make symptoms worse).

Wearing a pressure band that applies electrical stimulation to an area may help, but studies are limited.

Motion or travel sickness occurs when the nervous system receives confusing messages from your senses, like your ear, skin pressure, muscle and joint receptors.

An example of motion sickness is when someone is on a boat or car and their ears sense movement up and down, left and right, but their eyes see a static view, as though they were not moving at all.

Travel sickness is no different when you’re travelling in a boat, car, aeroplane, or train, so any travel sickness tablet that works for you on one method of transport should work on them all.

With this in mind, the best travel sickness tablets will be the ones which work for you, so we’d advise speaking to your doctor or pharmacist if you’re unsure which to take.