My late husband was an officer in the Royal Navy. Like Nelson, he suffered from terrible seasickness. He discovered that he did not get seasick on board a submarine, and thereafter served on submarines for the rest of his active career.
My respect and gratutide to him for his service. My late dad was a member of the Merchant Marine in the Battle of The Atlantic during WW2. He often suffered seasickness as well. Used to say that, after the first hour of feeling seasick, you thought you were going to die. After the second hour, you wished you had! He was a man of rare wit!
@@carolmurphy7572 In return, respect and gratitude to your Dad for his. You don't need me to tell you that the Merchant Marine were very, very brave men and their service was absolutely essential.
I used to get horribly motion sick as a kid, and still fairly badly today. Back then it wasn't a matter of if I'd vomit, but when. At least the upside was that once I did, it almost never happened for the rest of the trip. At least until we drove down into Kangaroo Valley. That was not so fun. Or my first flight which was on a refurbished DC3, that was hell for 30 minutes, I can't imagine the hours the paratroopers would have spent in them during WW2. The best defense for me has always been looking at a stationary a point as possible near the horizon, breathing with uniform regular breaths and making myself as cold as possible. And not eating spicy or fatty foods.
@@tamielizabethallaway2413 I never had tablets, but something my mum got for me were these things called Sea-Bands, cotton wristbands that would have a plastic dome on the inside that you would live up with a point on the underside of your wrist. It never really worked for me, I've always had a sensitivity in my wrists were stuff touching them or them getting too warm makes me feel nauseous so while they stopped me from vomiting, I spent the whole trip feeling like I was on the verge of it while they were on
I once heard, that sea sickness is not a bug, but a feature. Since the sensation we experience on a boat, or after we're spinning really fast for example, this disconnect between the inner ear and the eyes, is very similar to the sensation caused by a lot of toxic substances. So the body wants to get rid of it and this is experienced as nausea.
I suffered seasickness and car sickness as a child, and mild nausea during air travel. I still tend to feel car sickness, unless I'm driving. The motion of the water makes me very sick as an adult, to the point that I can't stand on a dock and look at the waves, or even go swimming in an indoor pool! Worst part is, I live on an island. So I simply don't travel.
I've found a full cooked English breakfast is the ideal way to break the seasick cycle. I remember one voyage on the Canberra through a force 9 gale off France where I and a chum were the only people at breakfast. So much food! so few boys!
Below deck for a period of time on a sail boat is usually the trigger for me. And particularly worse if you start the day below deck (ie, wake up while your already underway). Other than the usual suggestion of keeping your eyes on the horizon to cure it I stumbled on something that did also work. I laid down on my side with my head facing the direction of travel. The motion starting with my head then flowing to my feet seemed to settle me quicker than anything previously. Yet to test this again as it is pretty rare for me to get seasick.
Eating ginger is actually a good remedy for motion sickness. I used to work at a store that sold candied ginger chews and many people said they worked wonders for that.
I've been to sea in a few different vessels (from ferries to 2-masted brigantines to lifeboats to fishing vessels) and not once did I ever get sea-sick, however, I'd once spent 8 days at sea; it took me just under 3 days just to get my 'land legs' back lol. I looked like a drunk the first 2 days back on terra firma, lol. 😆
ginger is the answer , i suffered horribly with sea sickness when i was young until an old sailor told me to take something with ginger in it (e.g ginger biscuits , ginger ale ect ) it worked every time and eventually i didn't need it anymore , went on to work on a boat for a decade without a single day of being ill
You can actually get landsick too. Once after spending a long period of time on a boat and being fine, I got off and immediately became ill, had vertigo and all sorts.
2:12 "Public Service Announcement: even if it is not as nearly as much as being in full sun your skin can be damaged from those uva and uvb rays even on a cloudy day. Oh and avoid spicy and fatty foods. "
I found that if I'm inside and can't get a view outside, closing my eyes helps. It cuts out the contradictory visual stimuli and I can focus on what I feel, and everything sorts itself out. With my eyes closed I see the outside world moving around me as it really is, even if it's only on my mind.
To answer the unanswered question: counter-intuitively, eating a good big meal before is better than hitting it with an empty stomach. I remember riding that awful ride at Universal studios in which you sit in a moving bench thing and the whole rise is projected onto a wall. Like a room size VR. I went on a rollercoaster visually without moving. Was seasick for 3 days. I caught a flight from Hollywood to DC and got off the plane still feeling woozy from that bloody ride.
The only time I have had travel-sickness is when my sister-in-law drives on a motorway. She is incapable of maintaining a constant speed. So she accelerates, then brakes, accelerates, then brakes, which churns my stomach. She refuses to use cruise control as that would involve admitting to her flawed driving.
I’m yet to experience a cruise but certainly in a car, bus or train I sometimes feel extremely nauseous and dizzy. Planes once airborne not so much, take off and landing sort of. It’s really interesting about the cause of the motion sickness being a disconnect from your visual system. The brain gathers the information, and when there's a conflict, you'll likely experience motion sickness.
I never used to get seasick, I seemed to have a pretty good grasp of visuals-over-motion and it didn't affect me. But a recent trip, on quite a large ferry, made me feel very unwell. I don't know what I did wrong, I don't think it was ageing that caused it, but it has put me off going on another boat trip for a while.
I don't think you did anything wrong. The only time I've ever been seasick was on a cruise ship. Unless the weather is really rocking outside those big ships just don't seem to move all that much; but apparently it's enough for your inner ear to detect.
Unfortunately, I’m easily carsick (unless I drive or sit in the front passenger seat) but never on a plane or boat except when I visited Iceland for the first time. I got a bit sick on the plane (it was the smell of petrol) and taking a ferry to an island that I got quite dizzy (the waves did not help at all). Thankfully the ferry ride back was a lot calmer and I just stared out of the windows till we got to shore. Needless to say, it depends on what or where you are that might make you a bit nauseous, but I don't think you did anything wrong!
Oddly enough I've been out on commuter boats and the like in fairly rough weather and never once been seasick, yet in an airplane or even the back seat of a car on a long, windy roads I almost always get nauseous -__-
Drink plenty of water? When I went on a cruise in ‘07 the staff told me to limit my fluid intake. I remember thinking “I might if this chicken weren’t so dry”
I always got sick as soon as i was feeling hungry and made the mistake of looking inboard. The next time, I had a large breakfast and kept snacking through the day , no problems occurred at all.
I always feel car sick on long journeys ans also sometimes on busses, but I never through up. My personal remedy that always works is chewing gum. I have never tried it on sea sickness though!
@@anthonyoer4778 Maybe the wave motion crossing the channel on a ferry is different to that on a yacht or masted ship sailing elsewhere. I should know this, I sailed a lot as a kid. But it took seriously heavy weather to make me sick, whereas going on the small ferry to the Scilly Isles recently (in rough but not terrible weather) almost finished me. There'll certainly be a difference in how a smaller yacht moves with waves compared to a larger ferry.
always sit and look ahead if you can - try and make sure that the visual info matches the spatial info. Like Stephen said, dont read or stare at your phone, don't look down for long, and don't go below deck. And of course, avoid fatty and spicy foods.
Quickest way to fix sea sickness...... Jump in the water. Immediately resets the inner ear and visual link. Of course wouldnt benefit if you were on a cruise ship...
My father served in the U. S. Navy during WW II on a destroyer escort in the Pacific Theater. Never seasick once. But let a baby spew anywhere near him and he would hurl.
The fatty and spicy food thing always makes me laugh. I know it’s (usually bs) but sometimes it’s true but for the love of god be more specific. I have very bad anxiety I puke a lot I puked up blood went to the hospital and as I got discharged I was handed a leaflet telling me to add fat to my diet(not gonna lie it made me feel gross about even attempting it “have scrambled eggs add two spoons of dried milk powder and a handful of cheese”🤢. But as I was leaving the Dr said don’t eat fatty foods and you can’t eat spice! I was like “none”? He said “no spice at all”! Yh fuck that dude you mean spicy it’s a world of difference! I cook all the meals in my house how tf can I give it flavour without spice? This ain’t Dune dude there is t a shortage of paprika!
It's true, every single medical condition, they tell you: avoid spicy food, alcohol, tobacco. No matter what it is. You could have a hangnail and they'd give you an "after care" sheet saying "avoid alcohol, spicy food, tobacco." My wife had rotator cuff surgery recently and the instructions I was given said "recovering patients will want bland food for a while." My (Mexican descent) wife's first demands when I picked her up from surgery were "take me to the mexican restaurant and get me chilaquiles with chorizo and their habanero salsa." She would have none of that bland food nonsense.
My doctor's solution for everything is "lose weight"'. Yes, I should drop a few pounds but I could arrive at the surgery spurting arterial blood and carrying one of my hands in a tupperware box - he'd still say the cause was weight!
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Is there a scale for the cost involved in seasickness? We could call it the "dosh garn" scale
My late husband was an officer in the Royal Navy. Like Nelson, he suffered from terrible seasickness. He discovered that he did not get seasick on board a submarine, and thereafter served on submarines for the rest of his active career.
Tbf I'd be concerned if a submarine was regularly bobbing enough to cause seasickness.
My respect and gratutide to him for his service. My late dad was a member of the Merchant Marine in the Battle of The Atlantic during WW2. He often suffered seasickness as well. Used to say that, after the first hour of feeling seasick, you thought you were going to die. After the second hour, you wished you had! He was a man of rare wit!
I'm curious what makes one choose a career in the navy when suffering from terrible seasickness.
@@carolmurphy7572 In return, respect and gratitude to your Dad for his. You don't need me to tell you that the Merchant Marine were very, very brave men and their service was absolutely essential.
@@decodolly1535 Thank you for your kind and thoughtful comment. We owe them all a debt of gratitude, no doubt. #LestWeForget
Standing under an oak tree is always a cure for sea sickness.
😅
Unless it's part of an oak mast.
You should really have credited Spike Milligan for that one.
100% 😂🤣😂
Spike says hello.
I used to get horribly motion sick as a kid, and still fairly badly today. Back then it wasn't a matter of if I'd vomit, but when. At least the upside was that once I did, it almost never happened for the rest of the trip. At least until we drove down into Kangaroo Valley. That was not so fun. Or my first flight which was on a refurbished DC3, that was hell for 30 minutes, I can't imagine the hours the paratroopers would have spent in them during WW2. The best defense for me has always been looking at a stationary a point as possible near the horizon, breathing with uniform regular breaths and making myself as cold as possible. And not eating spicy or fatty foods.
@@tamielizabethallaway2413 I never had tablets, but something my mum got for me were these things called Sea-Bands, cotton wristbands that would have a plastic dome on the inside that you would live up with a point on the underside of your wrist. It never really worked for me, I've always had a sensitivity in my wrists were stuff touching them or them getting too warm makes me feel nauseous so while they stopped me from vomiting, I spent the whole trip feeling like I was on the verge of it while they were on
That winding road down into Kangaroo Valley is not pleasant
@JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE what
I love this show and feel such a strong connection to it. You guys are awesome. Keep it up.
I once heard, that sea sickness is not a bug, but a feature. Since the sensation we experience on a boat, or after we're spinning really fast for example, this disconnect between the inner ear and the eyes, is very similar to the sensation caused by a lot of toxic substances. So the body wants to get rid of it and this is experienced as nausea.
Soo... working as intended then?
"I once heard, that sea sickness is not a bug, but a feature."
Did I fall asleep for 9 or 10 years? When did people become video games?
Did anyone ever think seasickness was a bug? Hasn't it always been known it's due to motion?
@@michaeloraghailligh4495 Heyo
@@michaeloraghailligh4495 Except 8f it was a really big bug, or even a group of them, swaying you about.
I suffered seasickness and car sickness as a child, and mild nausea during air travel. I still tend to feel car sickness, unless I'm driving. The motion of the water makes me very sick as an adult, to the point that I can't stand on a dock and look at the waves, or even go swimming in an indoor pool! Worst part is, I live on an island. So I simply don't travel.
Is your surname Truman by any chance?
the best prevenative for seasickness is ginger and lots of it. Which is found in spicy foods.
I find ginger is good for upset tummy trouble. 🤢🤮
Fresh vegetables are also found in spicy foods. Ginger as root, powder, oil etc is best, not a curry.
I've found a full cooked English breakfast is the ideal way to break the seasick cycle. I remember one voyage on the Canberra through a force 9 gale off France where I and a chum were the only people at breakfast. So much food! so few boys!
Ironically, the bar of chocolate I'd purchased before boarding seemed to help me.
Below deck for a period of time on a sail boat is usually the trigger for me. And particularly worse if you start the day below deck (ie, wake up while your already underway). Other than the usual suggestion of keeping your eyes on the horizon to cure it I stumbled on something that did also work. I laid down on my side with my head facing the direction of travel. The motion starting with my head then flowing to my feet seemed to settle me quicker than anything previously. Yet to test this again as it is pretty rare for me to get seasick.
My dad use to say to have a Mars Bar if you're seasick; cause it tastes as good coming out as it does going in
Does that hold true for deep fried ones too? Asking for a friend.
Eating ginger is actually a good remedy for motion sickness. I used to work at a store that sold candied ginger chews and many people said they worked wonders for that.
Chewing anything, really. Moving your jaw can help your inner ear recalibrate.
Myth busters also tested cures and ginger was the best one
@@luggy9256 I think that may be where I first heard of it.
I've been to sea in a few different vessels (from ferries to 2-masted brigantines to lifeboats to fishing vessels) and not once did I ever get sea-sick, however, I'd once spent 8 days at sea; it took me just under 3 days just to get my 'land legs' back lol. I looked like a drunk the first 2 days back on terra firma, lol. 😆
I suffer from see-sickness, I see sickness and I get sick...
ginger is the answer , i suffered horribly with sea sickness when i was young until an old sailor told me to take something with ginger in it (e.g ginger biscuits , ginger ale ect ) it worked every time and eventually i didn't need it anymore , went on to work on a boat for a decade without a single day of being ill
The best way to avoid seasickness is to not go on the water.
Exactly lol. I have no sea legs at all.
😜😂✔
Sit under a tree
You can actually get landsick too. Once after spending a long period of time on a boat and being fine, I got off and immediately became ill, had vertigo and all sorts.
Nor into Space
2:12 "Public Service Announcement: even if it is not as nearly as much as being in full sun your skin can be damaged from those uva and uvb rays even on a cloudy day.
Oh and avoid spicy and fatty foods. "
For me the secret is being able to look outside. So being on deck or having a view out the window while staring at the horizon and I feel nothing.
I found that if I'm inside and can't get a view outside, closing my eyes helps. It cuts out the contradictory visual stimuli and I can focus on what I feel, and everything sorts itself out. With my eyes closed I see the outside world moving around me as it really is, even if it's only on my mind.
I find the best thing to do is fly, not take a boat
I’ve done both on separate occasions (if I don’t have any Dramamine) and they usually tend to help!
To answer the unanswered question: counter-intuitively, eating a good big meal before is better than hitting it with an empty stomach.
I remember riding that awful ride at Universal studios in which you sit in a moving bench thing and the whole rise is projected onto a wall. Like a room size VR. I went on a rollercoaster visually without moving. Was seasick for 3 days. I caught a flight from Hollywood to DC and got off the plane still feeling woozy from that bloody ride.
The only time I have had travel-sickness is when my sister-in-law drives on a motorway. She is incapable of maintaining a constant speed. So she accelerates, then brakes, accelerates, then brakes, which churns my stomach. She refuses to use cruise control as that would involve admitting to her flawed driving.
Tell me about it, I'm fine with motion sickness except when a driver does that speed/slow/brake bullshit. Sometimes taxi drivers, which is even worse.
I’m yet to experience a cruise but certainly in a car, bus or train I sometimes feel extremely nauseous and dizzy. Planes once airborne not so much, take off and landing sort of. It’s really interesting about the cause of the motion sickness being a disconnect from your visual system. The brain gathers the information, and when there's a conflict, you'll likely experience motion sickness.
But closing your eyes doesn't always help.
I’ve only gotten motion sick once, and that was from reading on a car journey.
Get up on deck, look at the horizon, have a spew and breathe.
If you're still seasick count down the hours, kiss the shore and don't back to sea.
I never used to get seasick, I seemed to have a pretty good grasp of visuals-over-motion and it didn't affect me. But a recent trip, on quite a large ferry, made me feel very unwell. I don't know what I did wrong, I don't think it was ageing that caused it, but it has put me off going on another boat trip for a while.
I don't think you did anything wrong. The only time I've ever been seasick was on a cruise ship. Unless the weather is really rocking outside those big ships just don't seem to move all that much; but apparently it's enough for your inner ear to detect.
Unfortunately, I’m easily carsick (unless I drive or sit in the front passenger seat) but never on a plane or boat except when I visited Iceland for the first time.
I got a bit sick on the plane (it was the smell of petrol) and taking a ferry to an island that I got quite dizzy (the waves did not help at all). Thankfully the ferry ride back was a lot calmer and I just stared out of the windows till we got to shore.
Needless to say, it depends on what or where you are that might make you a bit nauseous, but I don't think you did anything wrong!
Oddly enough I've been out on commuter boats and the like in fairly rough weather and never once been seasick, yet in an airplane or even the back seat of a car on a long, windy roads I almost always get nauseous -__-
My Grandmother got seasick from watching waves on TV
Got seriously confused at 1:30 that Milton Jones had changed his voice…
I found eating bacon helped a lot, though eating anything helped a bit.
I was taught to suck ice cubes whilst on a rocky boat, never ever got sick or threw up
Drink plenty of water? When I went on a cruise in ‘07 the staff told me to limit my fluid intake. I remember thinking “I might if this chicken weren’t so dry”
I always got sick as soon as i was feeling hungry and made the mistake of looking inboard. The next time, I had a large breakfast and kept snacking through the day , no problems occurred at all.
For a second I thought Sandi was going to say "don't forget to avoid fatty and spicy foods".
🤣🤣🤣
"avoid fatty or spicy foods" is probably more related to the unpleasantness of it coming back up later in the day 🤢
Don't get on a boat always works for me .
I always feel car sick on long journeys ans also sometimes on busses, but I never through up.
My personal remedy that always works is chewing gum. I have never tried it on sea sickness though!
Really, chewing gum?! Usually, it makes me sick if I’m not driving or have taken Dramamine before.
Ginger biscuits are the best cure 😊
Im going to find out what activity they recomend fatty and spicy foods for.
The BEST way to avoid seasickness is to avoid situations that cause it. ;)
Not going to sea is the 100% effective treatment.
I used to crew yachts and sailing ships . I was as happy as Larry on one of those . But put me on a cross channel ferry and I was as sick as a dog !
Was it business over pleasure? Concerning work as a mental focus?
@@anthonyoer4778 Maybe the wave motion crossing the channel on a ferry is different to that on a yacht or masted ship sailing elsewhere. I should know this, I sailed a lot as a kid. But it took seriously heavy weather to make me sick, whereas going on the small ferry to the Scilly Isles recently (in rough but not terrible weather) almost finished me. There'll certainly be a difference in how a smaller yacht moves with waves compared to a larger ferry.
@@DaveDexterMusic possibly, I wasn't sick on a cruise ship but on a fishing trip I'll get sick on a perfect calm day.
jumping in the water and having a swim is meant to cure it quickly....
Well, that was an unexpected ending.
bus: window seat
boat: center aisle seat
plane: window or aisle seat
works best for me
Don’t forget to sit in the front seat of a car instead of the back (if you’re not driving) so your eyes have a bigger view to see outside.
Blimey, Milton Jones looks young in this !
(Yes, I know its not him...)
KLAXON
Avoid spicy food?!? - sorry can't do that. i might as well give up on the sea.
Short supply of fresh air in space tho...
Subtitles would still be lovely.
The audience reaction to that imagined scene by Alan at 0:38 is unexpectedly intense.
Sure would be nice if the video actually went into the best way to avoid seasickness...
My good friend Google says to get fresh air, take anti-emetic meds, sit nearer to the level of the water and, of course, avoid fatty and spicy foods.
@@hippletwipple2285 Haha google ain't your friend.
@JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE Stay on dry land
Avoid fatty and spicy food.
always sit and look ahead if you can - try and make sure that the visual info matches the spatial info. Like Stephen said, dont read or stare at your phone, don't look down for long, and don't go below deck.
And of course, avoid fatty and spicy foods.
Sit under a tree.........thanks to Spike Milligan .
I came here to find out about ways to avoid seasickness, and ended up watching Alan Davies miming eating his own weightless puke.
Submarine!
I used to get car-sick as a child, then later on it would be buses which brought it on. To this day I can't read a book on a bus
Quickest way to fix sea sickness......
Jump in the water. Immediately resets the inner ear and visual link.
Of course wouldnt benefit if you were on a cruise ship...
My father served in the U. S. Navy during WW II on a destroyer escort in the Pacific Theater. Never seasick once. But let a baby spew anywhere near him and he would hurl.
How to avoid sea sickness? Stay on land, clearly!
The fatty and spicy food thing always makes me laugh. I know it’s (usually bs) but sometimes it’s true but for the love of god be more specific. I have very bad anxiety I puke a lot I puked up blood went to the hospital and as I got discharged I was handed a leaflet telling me to add fat to my diet(not gonna lie it made me feel gross about even attempting it “have scrambled eggs add two spoons of dried milk powder and a handful of cheese”🤢. But as I was leaving the Dr said don’t eat fatty foods and you can’t eat spice! I was like “none”? He said “no spice at all”! Yh fuck that dude you mean spicy it’s a world of difference! I cook all the meals in my house how tf can I give it flavour without spice? This ain’t Dune dude there is t a shortage of paprika!
Don't go out to sea!
Was expecting a play on the seafood/see food joke.
What's with the Andrea Gail photo? Was that from another part of the show?
What causes it is increased heart rate. Slow your heart rate, feel better.
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
I am surprised his Magic Underwear did not protect him. not magic in space?
Strangely, i don't get sick on boats, but cars are hell - and the nicer the car the worse i feel.
"Avoid spicy and fatty foods" Okay I'll give up on life instead
Avoiding fatty and spicy foods after death makes no difference to your dead status.
Buy a house in Bolivia.
I hate those glasses that Jo has on at least she doesn’t wear them anymore
So don’t have a bhaji on a boat
It's true, every single medical condition, they tell you: avoid spicy food, alcohol, tobacco. No matter what it is. You could have a hangnail and they'd give you an "after care" sheet saying "avoid alcohol, spicy food, tobacco."
My wife had rotator cuff surgery recently and the instructions I was given said "recovering patients will want bland food for a while." My (Mexican descent) wife's first demands when I picked her up from surgery were "take me to the mexican restaurant and get me chilaquiles with chorizo and their habanero salsa." She would have none of that bland food nonsense.
'every single medical condition'
😒
My doctor's solution for everything is "lose weight"'. Yes, I should drop a few pounds but I could arrive at the surgery spurting arterial blood and carrying one of my hands in a tupperware box - he'd still say the cause was weight!
@@decodolly1535 'solution for everything'
Is to sit under a tree.
Don't get on a boat!
Fatty and spicy foods, got it.
Step two: don't ride a camel
Bring a comfortable chair and sit on the dock, taking in the sun. Unless you live i the UK, in which case you should wear a Mac.
Fly or drive. Not rocket science.
What is the best cure for sea sickness……
Not traveling on a ship!
So fatty and spicy food is the source of seasicknesS. Got it. 😉
Avoid the sea. NEXT!
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Truer words have never been spoken.