16 month old car sick

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Hi

Just wondering if anyone has any advice on how to treat car sickness in a 16 month old, we drove to Cornwall yesterday and the poor thing was sick on 4 separate occasions! It actually doesn't brother him much but it's quite a messy business! Any advice hugely appreciated!

Thanks

Is he watching any screens/looking at books? Both of these make mine vom.

We used Sea Bands while DD was at nursery.

Nope! Also should have mentioned he is also forward facing....

Thanks! We have sea bands on the way so fingers crossed they help!

Have a look at what he is eating before. DD couldn't eat fat before a decent drive (think fish and chips or sausages as being memorable) so I went for plain pasta, usually. I couldn't eat chocolate as a child while travelling.

Getting too hot is not good. Hours in the car would need plenty of fresh air and light clothing, even in January. Water for drinks rather than milk or juice.

DD even now as a teenager has a stomach that doesn't like lots of roundabouts. When we stopped at playgrounds, she was banned from anything that whizzed around. Normal swings are ok.

Keeping the head up and active and looking around. No books or screens. Duplo in buckets or something like that. Tricky with a toddler, I know. I had a bucket on the seat beside me and each time an activity was discarded, I would toss another one over. Dolls, blocks, stackable stuff etc. A few old favourites now seen out of their normal environment and a few from the bottom of the toybox or the top of the wardrobe that aren't seen often. Stop the car at half time, walk around, gather all the toys again and start over.

Lots of singing.

Have a few old towels over the back seat and over toddlers lap. It can catch quite a bit and just bundle it into a rubbish bag and into the boot for dealing with at home.

Phenergan.