Travel – Eat – Sleep

When taking a vacation, a break away from home or just making a short journey.  Do you feel ill whilst traveling to your destination?

Travel sickness can vary from slight nervousness to the more nauseating motion sickness, jetlag and sea sickness.  If you suffer from symptoms such as loss of appetite, anxiety and stress, light headedness, an uneasy sickness in your stomach, vomiting, during a long or even a short journey you’re likely to be a sufferer.

Be prepared

If you suffer from air and motion sickness, my first top tip would be:  Be prepared.  On any journey whether traveling by car, ship, or plane is it is best if you plan for any eventuality. Keep an emergency pack of wet wipes, dry tissue and small scented plastic bags and if possible a source of water.  Eat Light.

Only eat a very small light meal before you travel, reduce salty snacks as salt is thought to be one of the contributing factors that will worsen the condition.

Stay entertained.

Bring reading materials, music players, games, puzzles, and books anything that you enjoy which occupies you.  Also hand held games can be a great distraction for children who tend to feel ill on journeys.

If you suffer from motion sickness, entertainment can sometimes help de-stress you and consequently removes any anxieties from your traveling experience. This will also enable you to remain still for periods of time as moving around can make your sickness worst.

One cause is the affect that a vehicle, such as a airplane, a ship or even a car can have on the body whilst it is in motion. The visual information received by our eyes does not correlate with the brains sensory information received by the balancing organs: our ears, and therefore we feel nausea and sickness.

Jetlag causes our body clock to become out of sync when we travel into another time zone, it confuses the body clock.  Acute jetlag often occurs in very frequent flyers.  Symptoms can range from exhaustion, confusion, low concentration, headaches and insomnia and moodiness.

Stay Awake!

Jet lag can be alleviated by taking the following steps, when arriving at your destination, stay awake during the daytime, natural light can aid you to a peaceful recovery.  Sleep during the night and stay awake in the day, this will be hard at first but eventually your body will adjust to the time zones.