Does anyone have any recommendations for travel sickness tablets/remedies for a 7 year old?

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DD was sick on the coach on a school trip a few weeks ago and another trip is coming up. Naturally she is a bit concerned about this and I want to give her something beforehand. Any ideas? I would prefer something natural ideally but if not, anything will do!

Thank you, I'll try that.

Those travel bands from boots are quite good aswell, think its probably psycholgical but it seems to work.

My ds gets travel-sick sometimes and we always take an empty ice-cream tub with us in the car as its easier to hit that than a plastic bag!

Sturgeron

second the travel bands, they're brilliant

travelbands here

you can buy them in boots

Scopaderm is brilliant - a little patch worn behind the ear. It's for anti-motion sickness - but mainly sea sickness.

Do you know of any particular reason she got sick on that coach, or is she just always prone to it? I ask because my DS made the mistake of using someone's handheld console on a trip and was sick, when he should have known that it was a bad idea!

She's tried the travel bands and it hasn't worked. She does feel very sick in the car on long journeys but hasn't actually been sick. Sitting in the front seems to help, not sure why. This coach journey was the first time she has actually been sick whilst travelling and I don't think she was reading or playing computer games.

Sitting in the front means you're looking out forward more, and your balance doesn't get confused. Side window of a car not quite so good, but still able to relate the feeling of motion with the horizon. Coaches - even with a window seat you're looking more sideways. Aisle seat the worst.

Bless her, I've often wondered if she's laying it on a bit thick to sit in the front . I'll believe her now, thanks.

Motion sickness is the brain having problems matching up what your eyes are seeing with what your sense of balance is telling you. If you can see the horzon far in front of you it generally helps. And the worst thing is focussing on close objects, which is why reading and computer games are such a bad idea. So she's probably genuine about sitting in the front of the car making it better

Travel bands are really good, honest.

Nelsons Travella are good (homeopathic remedy)

we've started using the wristband-thingy on 7yo ds, it seems to do the job. he also munches ridiculous amounts of polos (possible placebo effect but it works so i don't care too much why)
we can't use the medicines because most contain stuff he can't have [food allergies etc]

ooh sympathies - I heave at the smell of a coach even now - not good considering I'm a geography teacher and go on Fieldwork trips mind you teacher's perks - I get to sit at the front

I use Kwells for my dd - I might be worth asking the pharmacist though

We found that listening to music/stories via headphones really helped dd1. I'm not sure if it works by distraction, but who cares, so long as it does work!

On our recent school trip we were told to take newspapers and if a child complained of feeling sick, sit them on a newspaper and tell them "you wont be sick if you sit on a newspaper, I've put you on a newspaper so you are not going to be sick". I thought they were winding me up until they did it. Obviously playing on the psychological side, but despite several feeling sick they weren't - although we could just have been lucky. At least the seat was protected if they had been sick.

Boots own brand have been great for dd2. I usually take Stugeron but have been ok on these as well.

Wristbands didn't work for DS2, who is a martyr to travel sickness. Stugeron does - he has been using it for 10 years now.

He doesn't like the car too hot and Cds to listen to certainly help by distracting.

I haven't sat in the passenger seat of the car when we are out as a family for years - Ds has to sit in front. I can't drive because Dh has to because he gets travel sick