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

Aren't you related to a Canuck now? Get some Gravol, best stuff on the
planet, but you can't get in 'merica.

Cheers
Marty

"Martin Baxter" 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

Aren't you related to a Canuck now? Get some Gravol, best
stuff on the
planet, but you can't get in 'merica.

no, not yet, end of August...shudder

SV

Scotty wrote:

SBV

Aren't you related to a Canuck now? Get some Gravol, best
stuff on the
planet, but you can't get in 'merica.

no, not yet, end of August...shudder

Stock up on moose liver!

Cheers
Marty

Martin Baxter wrote:
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


Aren't you related to a Canuck now? Get some Gravol, best stuff on the
planet, but you can't get in 'merica.

Cheers
Marty

Good old over the counter Gravol, or the 'no-name- versions of it.
This stuff makes me drowsy also.

Don White wrote:



Aren't you related to a Canuck now? Get some Gravol, best stuff on the
planet, but you can't get in 'merica.

Cheers
Marty

Good old over the counter Gravol, or the 'no-name- versions of it.
This stuff makes me drowsy also.

The packaging does carry that warning, I can't speak from personal
experience, so far I've not had a problem, (he says with fingers
crossed).

Cheers
Marty

Mythbusters did a piece recently on non-prescription (over the counter)
antidotes to seasickness. It included those wrist bands, various
concoctions and ginger. Only ginger worked. We always carry ginger root on
board as well as ginger beer (not ginger ale). The prescription drugs also
worked but left people drowsy or even spaced out.

Gogarty wrote:
Mythbusters did a piece recently on non-prescription (over the counter)
antidotes to seasickness. It included those wrist bands, various
concoctions and ginger. Only ginger worked. We always carry ginger root on
board as well as ginger beer (not ginger ale). The prescription drugs also
worked but left people drowsy or even spaced out.

On that same show they tested 2 people and 1 said that the drug that
worked best was the placebo (sugar pill). Of course when they tested
him, they told him that it was a new drug and he didn't get sick at
all. That tells me for some it is a mind game. If you feel relaxed
and believe it what you are taking will cure you, you will be fine.

I have horrible memories as a child, first time out far and getting
really sick. It stuck with me for awhile, until one day, someone I was
fishing with started to get sick and I was laughing (which is customary
on a fishing boat) and for some reason I haven't gotten sick since. I
don't know if seeing someone else get sick and laughing took my mind
off it long enough for me to forget my fear or what, but I do fine now
(of course I'll go out tomorrow and barf my brains out now that I made
this public).

FishinJC wrote:
The prescription drugs also
worked but left people drowsy or even spaced out.

In all these post the one thing that i have not read is a quantitative
description of the sea state (that's using numbers for all the
sailing.asa readers).

So a drug left people drowsy or even spaced out. Personally after
heaving my guts out for two days then totally dehydrated and
incapacitated for days 3&4 I would most certainly take the drowsy and
even spaced out option. Granted the sea state that caused my marathon
puke fest was extreme. So take the drugs and get er dun.

On that same show they tested 2 people and 1 said that the drug that
worked best was the placebo (sugar pill). Of course when they tested
him, they told him that it was a new drug and he didn't get sick at
all. That tells me for some it is a mind game. If you feel relaxed
and believe it what you are taking will cure you, you will be fine.

This is an excellent point................ What is the expected placebo
effect for any given sample/study group? Cant remember but I think the
folks who submit to the NJM mentioned, maybe 6%-12% of people are head
cases.

Anybody know the typical expected placebo effect for humans?

Bob

Sea state matters, as does the size of the vessel in the sea state. Even
so, the first cruise I ever took with my wife to be was a large
passenger ship where the sea state was mill pond. She was very, very
sick. But that was it. Our honeymoon was eleven days at sea on an even
larger ship in some horrendous weather where the ship clnaged like a
gong and we have been sailing on our own boat for years. Never another
problem for either of us thugh we have had the occasional guest for whom
the day was no fun at all. Even busted up one romance. He got sick; she
did not.

Gogarty wrote in
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left people drowsy or even spaced out.


Hell, that describes 70% of the people on any dock...(c;