Motion Sickness in 7-Yr-old

I recently started taking ginger for motion (seasickness) sickness. I works like a charm! Give it to her prior to the trip; don't wait until she feels bad. I got the capsules at a health food store.

My daughter has always been motion sick. She is 16 and still can't ride backwards in anything. She still throws up. Metro is the worst.

The motion bracelets work well
Also 1/2 a dramamine worked while she was younger, now she can take a whole pill. We got the OK from the doctor first.
Benadryl will put her to sleep, but is good for a long plane/car ride.
Always have her sit facing forwards
Carry crackers
No electronics while riding--Gameboys, DVD;s--for my daughter the flashing lights set her off
No seat work, pencil to paper kind of thing
Use an iPod with soft, soothing music or white noise
In the car try to let her sit by the window and let her have it open as often as possible.
Keep the plane window shades down.
It will subside a bit after she gets her license, then she will be in control of the bumps and jolts.

At the health food store I get ginger chews for stomach aches and motion sickness.

My oldest has had motion sickness, especially in the car since he was 7, at least. We tried a lot of things including motion sickness pills and benedryl. Nothing really worked well.

Two things really helped him. The first was making sure he took Zyrtec religiously every night, especially before travel. The second was ginger pills we got at Whole Foods. He is 13 and still does the same routine every time we travel, including a month long road trip this summer.

I used to have motion sickness too when I was a kid. I hope your daughter will outgrow them soon...
There was no fancy bracelets or anything at that time, but I remember some people using Dramamine for more severe cases. Mine was milder. What helped me was to eat dry foods like crackers, not drink too much liquid, and smell something that I liked. Also no reading or any other activity like drawing, games etc. that will make her focus on stuff in short range around her. It is better if she can look far away (outside the window or other side of the plane). Or close her eyes. See if such simple things help. If not, dramamine should work.

My daughter often feels carsick. We just took an 11 hour car trip. I bought sea bands before our trip. They are like wrist bands with a small plastic nub that puts pressure on the inner wrist. She wore them for the whole trip and didn't have a problem. They weren't expensive. Totally worth it and no medication!

My daughter has motion sickness that we didnt know how to treat for TWO YEARS (daily vomiting in the car)
What finally worked for us was a HALF dose of benedryl TWENTY minutes before starting to move (by plane or car)
So- for a plane- maybe half dose once you board...

I have never been able to read and ride or ride backward. My ex-in-laws had a station wagon with a rear facing 3rd seat and I got carsick in the rear facing seat.
Have you had his eyes checked? Some kids with vision problems get motion sickness.

Yeah, my 8 yo is the same way, poor thing. She has never actually thrown up, but she feels awful.

Best thing I've found are Queasy Drops. (Ginger is a natural anti-nausea cure) When we drove to FL through the mountains of WV, Queasy Drops saved us all! They are a hard candy, and some of the flavors (comes with mixed flavors in the box) are not that great, but they work! We even used them before and after going on some of the rides at Disney so we wouldn't get sick on them!

You can get them from One Step Ahead - www.onestepahead.com - and they aren't too expensive. (The other travel item I always get from them is the pack of 10 oversized biodegradable toilet seat covers. Love them! They cover the whole seat, hang down the sides so my daughter doesn't touch anything when she holds on, and they have little sticky tabs to hold them in place on the toilet seat! Very cool!)

Good luck!

I suffered from motion sickness, badly and so do my kids. These are my tried and true, tested more often than any of us prefer approaches to deal with it.

1. Looking out the window so the eyes understand that there is movement. Looking at the inside of the car (rather than outside) tricks the mind to think that things around you are not moving and that's why the car sickness starts. Backseats sometimes give us problems, especially the middle seat and riding backwards is out of the question. Do not read in the car when it starts, it will only get worse. To this day I can not read a map in a moving car.

3. Water or our preference is ginger ale, drunk slowly.

4. Saltines - crackers - think morning sickness solutions.

5. Hylands homeopathic motion sickness pills - they are great and no drug induced drowsiness that benedryl and dramamine can bring on for our family. They can be found at almost any health food store.

6. Motion sickness bands that hit the pressure points. These really do work but can make your wrists sore after a while.

7. Ginger anything - ginger snaps (Trader Joes has a nice triple ginger cookie so there is a lot of Ginger getting into the system). Dried ginger, sweetened ginger, etc. A few of my relatives where have nausea from chemo and I suggest ginger tables and it really made a huge difference.

8. Lemon drops sucking candy. Also, spearmints help.

9. Avoid greasy foods, they upset the stomach anyway and then the motion just makes it worse.

10. Also avoid long trip boredom that's when the motion enters the brain.

A large container with a lid that is disposable (like a metal popcorn tin or disposable tupperware) are good to keep lined with plastic bags. On a long trip we tell the person who does not feel well that if the do have to throw-up it goes into a bag in the bucket, tied up, the lid is put on until the bag can be tossed at the next garbage can. The bucket is either kept for another ride or tossed as needed.

After a while you learn what is aggravating it and try to avoid those factors to make the rides easier.

Good luck and remember - this too shall pass.

My son has motion sickness. With airplanes, he has more trouble with watching a video, being on a smaller plane, or the last 5 minutes of the descent. In the car, hills or winding roads make it worse. My husband forgot and was showing off how well our new car drives- my son threw up half a mile from home. Dramamine definitely works for him. We also give him ginger ale, but most don't have much real ginger.
The first time we took him to occupational therapy a few years ago, they tested his balance on a platform swing. Afterwards he felt sick. After going through more therapy he had less motion sickness. Then we stopped going to therapy, and I think it has gotten worse again.

my daughter has had this since she was 3 years old. She does throw up though. One thing that has helped are those bracelet things. I think they are called sea bands. They have kid sizes also. I called them "magic bracelets" and it did help, until we lost them :(

Dramamine has always worked for me and for my 5 year old. You can give it as young as 2 (a half tablet), but she's old enough for a whole tablet. It may just knock her out, but at least she won't be sick. You could try Seabands wrist bands (at drugstores) as well. They worked fairly well for me with morning sickness.

dramamine (sp?) you can get it at Wal Mart or any drug store....

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I feel for her, having experienced it a lot when I was younger. And I understand about your needing to try something for her, so I did a check and found these, Sea-bands:
http://www.amazon.com/Original-Seaband-Children-Colors-Va...

How they work: A plastic stud is attached to the inside of the wrist band which exerts pressure and stimulates the P6 (or Nei-Kuan) acupressure point. It has been proven that pressure on this point relieves nausea and vomiting.

Most of the parents who reviewed them say they work, and for the price you might want to try them. Two tips also mentioned in the "product description" are: not eating a heavy or greasy meal before traveling, and to keep a child occupied during travel.

More info on Sea-bands:
http://www.sea-band.com/faqs#how-do-they-work

Hope this helps!