Child with severe motion sickness...on trains, cars, buses and planes

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Hi,

We have a 3 year old who has terrible motion sickness. About ten minutes into any car or bus journey she will be sick. She can just about hold it together for a 1.5 hour train journey but feels poorly. She totally refuses to get on a bus now, and it’s a struggle to get her into a car.

We luckily live in SW London and so can manage just about on trains and tubes. But we will have to go elsewhere at some point and I have no idea how we do it.

Is this really unusual, the level of sickness so quickly? Do we need to go to the doctor? Has anyone else had this? How do we ever go on holiday again?!

We have tried Joy Rides but they haven’t seemed to work.

Help!

Have you tried the wristbands? I had awful travel sickness as a child, felt sick as soon as I got into a car but these helped a lot. Travelled from Newcastle to France on a coach with only these, lost one in France and was dying the way back

I know this sounds a bit odd, but have you every had her eyes checked. My DD was exactly the same at that age but got a lot better after she got glasses following a sight test when she started school. It could just be a coincidence and she was ready to grow out of it, but she has really strong lenses and still tells me she feels sick if she takes her glasses off in the car.