Air sickness

Just put a lolopop in your mouth. You cant get sick while sucking on a
lolipop.
Try it. You can thank me later.

On Mon, 26 May 2008 09:55:35 -0400, "R. Gardner"
wrote:

Yes it will fade possibbly and as mentioned the control of the airplane will
help.

My daughter the sailor claims that getting up on deck and working like
a navvy is a sure cure/preventive, but I have not found this to be the
case.

I've never been airsick (though I came close to it when doing spin
training at Chandler AZ, on repeated hot days, and driving past the
stockyards) but I have indeed been seasick. My preventive measures
include sitting very still, on deck but as low as I can get (the
nearer the center of gravity, the less the motion), looking at the
horizon, and nibbling Saltines or better yet sugared ginger.

Ginger is a definite preventive for nasuea (however spelled!). Years
ago my old ma used to feed us flat, room-temp ginger ale if we were
sick. We're talking 1940s here, not folk medicine perhaps but close to
it. I feed the same stuff to my grand-daughters--i.e., her
great-granddaughters. For myself, however, I prefer the ginger
candies. Available I think in most groceries.

(Once actively sick, however, there is no cure. Just lie down with
your head in a bucket and wait for death,)



Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
new from HarperCollins www.FlyingTigersBook.com

Cubdriver wrote:
My daughter the sailor claims that getting up on deck and working like
a navvy is a sure cure/preventive, but I have not found this to be the
case.


I've never been either seasick or airsick, although I've turned a shade of green
before in both situations. In the case of flying, I was sitting in the back of
an Arrow on a warm bumpy day. I've never had a problem while in personal
control of an aircraft.


I've never been airsick (though I came close to it when doing spin
training at Chandler AZ, on repeated hot days, and driving past the
stockyards) but I have indeed been seasick. My preventive measures
include sitting very still, on deck but as low as I can get (the
nearer the center of gravity, the less the motion), looking at the
horizon, and nibbling Saltines or better yet sugared ginger.


Ginger is a natural anti-emetic and does work. My personal rules for rough seas
include never going below if at all possible; never go out on the water with a
full stomach; never going out on the water on an empty stomach; staying away
from the engine exhaust; always be out in the wind... even if it means riding
the top of a flying bridge in 12 foot seas. Never look down. Never look up.
And if others are heaving, always stay to windward. Remember, puking is like
yawning. If one person does it, everybody wants to.

If you're going to take Marezine or whatever, don't wait until you're queazy
before you do. I start the meds the night before if I'm going out on the water.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

I've never been either seasick or airsick, although I've turned a shade of green
before in both situations. *In the case of flying, I was sitting in the back of
an Arrow on a warm bumpy day. *I've never had a problem while in personal
control of an aircraft.

I've never been airsick (though I came close to it when doing spin
training at Chandler AZ, on repeated hot days, and driving past the
stockyards) but I have indeed been seasick. My preventive measures
include sitting very still, on deck but as low as I can get (the
nearer the center of gravity, the less the motion), looking at the
horizon, and nibbling Saltines or better yet sugared ginger.

I've had similar experiences. Got a little green while a student
pilot, and again when taking aerobatic training - but never lost my
lunch. It helps to be flying the plane.

I've likewise never been seasick, despite working some 14 years at sea
- including going through a couple of typhoons. You'd know it was
rough when hardly anyone
else showed up for meals. One time I came close on a crew boat in
rough weather with the wind blowing diesel smoke into the cabin. The
cure was to stand in the
center of the deck with the wind in my face and my eyes on the
horizon.

Dave

"Cubdriver" usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in message
...


My daughter the sailor claims that getting up on deck and working like
a navvy is a sure cure/preventive, but I have not found this to be the
case.

Getting up on deck has always worked for me. Unfortunately, much of my Navy
time was spent on board submarines where that was not an option.

Vaughn

Vaughn Simon wrote:
My daughter the sailor claims that getting up on deck and working like
a navvy is a sure cure/preventive, but I have not found this to be the
case.

Getting up on deck has always worked for me. Unfortunately, much of my Navy
time was spent on board submarines where that was not an option.


But it also shouldn't have been a problem. From my diving days, I know that the
roughest sea calms down fairly close to the surface. Many a seasick diver
settled his stomach by getting off the surface.

With nuclear submarines being the norm, why travel at the surface in a rough
sea?



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote in message
...

With nuclear submarines being the norm, why travel at the surface in a rough
sea?

Good question! Operating out of Scotland, we had to travel several hours to
and from port on the surface. Our schedule was "locked in stone" so we could
not wait for nice weather. Sometimes it was months between those few hours of
hell, so I never had a chance to really get acclimated to the motion.
Submerged, we sometimes took surprisingly large rolls, but had little pitching
motion. One tactic back then was to follow storms for as long as possible to
avoid detection, so we were sometimes taking those rolls for a week or more at a
time. That motion I found inconvenient, but it never made me sick.

Vaughn

"R. Gardner" writes:
Don't look at the
ground below you! The fast motion your eye see confusses the brain because
it senses that you are not realy moving. Look at a distant horizon to help
ease the on set of motion sickness. That helps the brain think that what it
sees is what it also senses with motion.

Heh. The one time I got really air sick during my flight training was
when I started to learn turns around a point. Constantly looking at
the ground pretty close to me, while going around and around and
around... :-)

Chris

Christopher Brian Colohan wrote:
Heh. The one time I got really air sick during my flight training was
when I started to learn turns around a point. Constantly looking at
the ground pretty close to me, while going around and around and
around... :-)


I took some foresters up to survey their property in rough air on several
occasions. If you think it was rough on you, at least you were the one in
control. Imagine where somebody else is doing the flying and you're circling
the ground looking through binoculars. It was reminiscent of the WWII AAC
officer's uniform: pinks and greens. They started one color and ended the
other. G



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote in message
...
Christopher Brian Colohan wrote:
Heh. The one time I got really air sick during my flight training was
when I started to learn turns around a point. Constantly looking at
the ground pretty close to me, while going around and around and
around... :-)


I took some foresters up to survey their property in rough air on several
occasions. If you think it was rough on you, at least you were the one in
control. Imagine where somebody else is doing the flying and you're
circling the ground looking through binoculars. It was reminiscent of the
WWII AAC officer's uniform: pinks and greens. They started one color and
ended the other. G



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

Just the thought of the binoculars...

Peter