Seasickness
 

Scotty wrote:
"Don White" wrote in message
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Scotty wrote:

I have a non-boating friend who's going on a cruise next
week. He's concerned about seasickness. I told him

ginger is

a good cure. I bought him a box of Ginger Snaps ( more

for a

joke ). Should he start munching on these before he

steps

onboard or wait till / if he feels bad?

SBV



I'd start munching just before I left.
If he's on a big cruise ship, I doubt he's be feeling the

same way he

would on a 33 foot sailboat with 5 foot swells on an aft

quarter that

might make you pitch, yaw & roll.



He knows I have a 30' sailboat and asked me what I do about
it. I told him it never bothered me.....yet.

SBV


Lucky you...if I don't drug-up, I upchuck.
Those little pea type pressure wrist bands don't cut it for me.

Seasickness
 

It would not be uncommon for someone to talk themselves into it. A good part
of it is psychological. Of course, I've puked with the best of them. :-) I
use Doritos, not ginger.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Scotty" wrote in message
...
I already told him that, but he still keeps talking about
seasickness. I'm worried he's going to 'talk himself into
it'. Thus, the ginger snaps might just help ease his mind,
more than his stomach.

SBV


"Don W" wrote in
message
.com...
If you are talking about him going on a cruise
ship, then I'd tell him not to be concerned about
it. We've been on about 5 different cruises in up
to 35' seas, and those huge ships just don't move
around that much.

YMMV,

Don W.

Scotty wrote:

I have a non-boating friend who's going on a cruise next
week. He's concerned about seasickness. I told him
ginger is
a good cure. I bought him a box of Ginger Snaps ( more
for a
joke ). Should he start munching on these before he
steps
onboard or wait till / if he feels bad?

SBV

Seasickness
 

Dave wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:15:21 -0400, "Scotty" said:

I already told him that, but he still keeps talking about
seasickness. I'm worried he's going to 'talk himself into
it'. Thus, the ginger snaps might just help ease his mind,
more than his stomach.

The only time I've been seasick in my life was on a cruise ship as a kid
coming down from Alaska to Seattle. Since then I've been through hurricanes
on a converted fleet tug where you couldn't sit at the wardroom table and
had to eat your food from a bowl, as well as many choppy times on small sail
boats and never had the problem.


Yelp, thoses cruise ships ride as smooth as Tankers, even the ones on
the Alaska run.

Send this picture to him Scotty:
http://www.abc.net.au/midnorthcoast/stories/m924639.jpg

Wish him a Bon Voyage!

Joe




The two remedies that seemed to work for others when I was in the Navy were
soda crackers and coke.

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On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:43:54 -0400, "Scotty"
wrote:

I have a non-boating friend who's going on a cruise next
week. He's concerned about seasickness. I told him ginger is
a good cure. I bought him a box of Ginger Snaps ( more for a
joke ). Should he start munching on these before he steps
onboard or wait till / if he feels bad?

================================

The one remedy which works for just avout everyone and is clinically
proven:

http://www.prevent-motion-sickness-scopolamine.com/

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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:43:54 -0400, "Scotty"
wrote:

I have a non-boating friend who's going on a cruise next
week. He's concerned about seasickness. I told him ginger is
a good cure. I bought him a box of Ginger Snaps ( more for a
joke ). Should he start munching on these before he steps
onboard or wait till / if he feels bad?

================================

The one remedy which works for just avout everyone and is clinically
proven:

http://www.prevent-motion-sickness-scopolamine.com/

The patches work for me, but they make me unusually thirsty... more than I
can stand, sort of like feeling that I've been marching in desert
conditions, so I don't use them.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

Seasickness
 

"Scotty" wrote:
I have a non-boating friend who's going on a cruise next
week. He's concerned about seasickness. I told him ginger is
a good cure. I bought him a box of Ginger Snaps ( more for a
joke ). Should he start munching on these before he steps
onboard or wait till / if he feels bad?


Wait at least until the boat starts rocking, but not
necessarily until that old queasy feeling sets in.

Ginger ale also works nicely, although if you overdo it, the
carbonation is bad.

"Wayne.B" wrote
The one remedy which works for just avout everyone and is clinically
proven:

http://www.prevent-motion-sickness-scopolamine.com/


Yeah but they have side effects.

Capt. JG wrote:
The patches work for me, but they make me unusually thirsty... more than I
can stand, sort of like feeling that I've been marching in desert
conditions, so I don't use them.


Plus they can give you a hangover worse than tequila. And it
seems to hit some people really hard, I went on a charter
trip with a girl years ago who was practically in a coma
from her scopolamine patches. She slept for 40 hours
straight and it took over a week to get out of her system.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

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"Joe" wrote


Yelp, thoses cruise ships ride as smooth as Tankers, even
the ones on
the Alaska run.

Send this picture to him Scotty:
http://www.abc.net.au/midnorthcoast/stories/m924639.jpg

Wish him a Bon Voyage!

I'll see him tomorrow. The funny thing is, we're also going
on a cruise next week, ours is to Bermuda, his in the Gulf
of Mexico.

SV

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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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"Wayne.B" wrote in
message
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On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:43:54 -0400, "Scotty"

wrote:

I have a non-boating friend who's going on a cruise next
week. He's concerned about seasickness. I told him
ginger is
a good cure. I bought him a box of Ginger Snaps ( more
for a
joke ). Should he start munching on these before he
steps
onboard or wait till / if he feels bad?

================================

The one remedy which works for just avout everyone and
is clinically
proven:

http://www.prevent-motion-sickness-scopolamine.com/

The patches work for me, but they make me unusually
thirsty... more than I
can stand, sort of like feeling that I've been marching in
desert
conditions, so I don't use them.

Well, there's plenty to drink on a cruise ship.

SBV

Seasickness
 

"Scotty" wrote in message
...
I have a non-boating friend who's going on a cruise next
week. He's concerned about seasickness. I told him ginger is
a good cure. I bought him a box of Ginger Snaps ( more for a
joke ). Should he start munching on these before he steps
onboard or wait till / if he feels bad?

SBV

Are ginger snaps actually flavored with ginger, or an artificial flavoring?

We keep candied ginger on board for folks who suffer mal-de-mer. Also
Vernor's ginger ale, which is flavored with ginger, not an artificial. And,
with the current interest in sushi and sashimi, ginger slices are available
at most grocery stores, and that actually works best, according to our
seasick friends.

Soda crackers also seem to help when a person is well into being seasick.
Must absorb some stomach acid or something--I really don't know.

FWIW

Max

Seasickness
 

Scotty,
transderm patch.
prescription
Scout

"Scotty" wrote in message
...
I have a non-boating friend who's going on a cruise next
week. He's concerned about seasickness. I told him ginger is
a good cure. I bought him a box of Ginger Snaps ( more for a
joke ). Should he start munching on these before he steps
onboard or wait till / if he feels bad?

SBV