What can I do to prevent or treat motion sickness?

What can I do to prevent or treat motion sickness?

Jason Hamilton (Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon) gives expert video advice on: What is "motion sickness" or "sea sickness"?; What can I do to prevent or treat motion sickness?; How can I reduce or prevent dizziness? and more...

Motion sickness can usually be prevented by one: if it's happening when you are driving in a car, it is usually because you are reading or you are not focusing on your environment. So by simply just looking out of the window and looking at your surroundings, the signal between your eye and your ear will usually balance. On a cruise, there are some over the counter treatments that are either like Antivert or patches that can be placed behind the ear that can decrease your motion sickness. There are some home remedies like ginger tablets that also decrease motion sickness as well. Motion sickness can be treated with patches. Those patches usually contain antihistamine similar to Benadryl. Overall, what it does is it decreases the signals to your brain from your ear and it increases your ability to handle dizziness without you feeling sick or nauseous.