Sea sickness is accompanied by the appearance of nausea and dizziness from monotonous fluctuations. Due to the fact that for the first time this phenomenon was seen during sea voyages, from here it got its name - "sea sickness".
Despite the name, the symptoms occur not only in maritime transport, but also in cars, airplanes and trains.
Most often, seasickness affects women and children, the latter - especially from 2 to 12 years. If the child has a seasickness, then there is a chance that with age it will pass, but some persist until the end of life.
To understand how to get rid of seasickness, you should determine its causes.
Causes of seasickness
How to deal with seasickness, scientists think so far, creating new research in this area. The famous doctor Vladimir Voyachek believed that among the main causes of seasickness, an important role is played by violations of the vestibular apparatus, namely, its receptors. These receptors give the brain information about changes in movements and participate in spatial orientation. It is logical that with monotonic oscillations, the reading of information can be violated, and therefore the signals are transmitted with violations.
Under another major cause of seasickness, doctors suggest a conflict that occurs between signals sent by the nervous system to the brain, which are sent by the vestibular apparatus and the organs of vision. For example, a similar pattern occurs when rolling on the sea, when a person feels rocking, but sees one picture - the sky, water and the horizon line. The landscape does not change, and fluctuations occur, and on this soil there is a vestibular-visual conflict.
Symptoms of seasickness
Symptoms of seasickness are few, and can be more or less pronounced:
- nausea;
- vomiting;
- dizziness ;
- headache;
- weakness.
These symptoms go away after the fluctuations stop, but on long trips or swimming they can become aggravated before the development of a mental disorder, and even cause suicide. Therefore, despite the frivolity of the symptoms to be negligent to seasickness is not worth it, if there is a long journey.
Treatment of seasickness
Today, medicine has different means of seasickness, but they have a symptomatic effect.
Basically, these are pills for nausea and vestibular apparatus disorders. As a rule, they consist of dimenhydrate. This substance prevents the occurrence of nausea and vomiting due to motion sickness.
The medicine for seasickness is from Pharma Science. They are called - Tablets from motion sickness and nausea.
Tablets from seasickness can be direct or indirect. Some believe that the following remedies can effectively combat the symptoms of seasickness:
- antihistamines - Suprastin, Tsetrin, Allersin, etc .;
- means for motion sickness due to violation of the vestibular apparatus - Aviamorin, Bonin, Kinedryl (accepted one hour before the trip);
- means, which include alkaloids of belladonna - Bellaspon, Aeron, Bellataminal;
- homeopathic remedies - Avia-sea, Nuks Vomica, Vertigohel.
With strong motion sickness, it is better to use tablets of direct action - from
To date, seasickness is treated only symptomatically, and in the absence of special medications, with motion sickness, you can use the following methods:
- to limit the intake of food;
- adapt to fluctuations in transport;
- fingering, knocking socks and heels on the floor, so that the body has a feeling of walking;
- among sailors the method with matches is popular - you need to take two matches and insert them between your teeth and suck; The sulfur ends should stay outside.