Why your motion sickness gets worse with age and what to do about it

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Why your motion sickness gets worse with age and what to do about it
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💬 “I too have tried to quell the nausea that I feel on long or winding car journeys by sitting in the front, not looking at my phone, and never turning around to talk to the children in the back,” writes rachtompkins

July 20, 2023 6:00 am

My boys are only 10 and seven so we were restricted by height as to what we could go on, nevertheless, as we embarked on the first roller coaster nothing could have prepared me for what was in store. Speeding through the air with our legs dangling I clung on for dear life. My mouth was dry with terror and my stomach churning as we twisted around the track.Disembarking afterwards my legs had gone to jelly, my head felt dizzy, and I’ve never felt so sick in all my life.

Motion sickness is caused by repeated movements when travelling, like going over bumps in a car or moving up and down in a boat, plane or train. The inner ear sends different signals to your brain from those your eyes are seeing. These confusing messages can make you feel unwell. Symptoms include headaches, nausea, vomiting, sweating and dizziness.

“With the advent of more visual technologies, for example, moving electronic billboards on the London Underground, it’s a greater cause of disturbance for some people.” “It’s a complicated relationship between age and motion sickness and it’s not linear,” says Professor Golding. “The evidence indicates that very young children and babies don’t get motion sickness. The susceptibility to motion sickness starts to develop as children get older and peaks around eight years old. After that it diminishes again, due to habituation, in other words, you have adapted.

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