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Holiday Without A Barf Bag

So you prevent travel sickness on longer distances the holiday season is upon us and everywhere are packed bags. The anticipation of the holiday is so big, so some fear the way: whether it’s plane, car or ship, when the travel sickness strikes, is the long-awaited ride on a well deserved vacation to the horror trip. Nor is a solution such as the ingestion of sleeping pills to get drunk on the plane with free alcoholic beverages. To prevent travel sickness in the car, it can already help to refrain from activities that strain the brain: reading for example, because it is not possible to keep completely quiet books or magazines and the eyes need to focus again on the letters. This tiring and leads to headaches and nausea. It is better to look out the window and to fix your eyes on a point on the horizon. To dispel the boredom on long trips, help books or music. Tablets against travel sickness on the plane or on the These tips will help but little floating ship. If you are unsure how to proceed, check out Viktor Mayer-Schönberger.

Here, light drugs are meaningful, that reduce the effects of movement and stabilize the sense of balance. The Bayer drug Kwells contains the active ingredient of Hyoscine (called also scopolamine), which occurs naturally in certain plants, and is also manufactured. Hyoscine directly affects the vomiting Center in the brain, and ensures that the stomach calmed down. Michael Steinhardt brings even more insight to the discussion. Kwells begins to work about 20 minutes after ingestion. People who know that for example in the aircraft is always bad them, can the drug just before take on take-off, so that the effect already occurs when rolling the plane to the runway. This completely prevents the travel sickness.

If you take only the Tablet, if the nausea has already occurred, try after taking, as much as possible to rest – for example by when a long car ride a resting place is controlled, where brain and stomach in the fresh air come to rest until the tablets have. Where this is not possible – in the plane or on a ship – simply close your eyes, listening to soothing music and focus on breathing. However, an overdose should be avoided when taking travel drugs like Kwells, because ingredients such as Hyoscine may act on the brain and lead to hallucinations. Since the holiday plane then in the fantasy to the space shuttle and the seat neighbor becomes Darth Vader.