Travel sickness and school trip

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My DD is very car sick, she will vomit 9 times out of 10 on any journeys over around 25 minutes. We have tried medication, wristbands, not eating too close to travelling etc but nothing seems to help her. She is due to go on a school trip to mark her finishing primary school to somewhere which Is a 1.5 hour drive. I'm not sure what to do with her travelling there. Should I keep her home?

my dd is the same, can barely make a 10min bus trip! But I have found that if we get electric Ubers and buses she's is so bad maybe it's the fumes. I use Kwells the day before she's due to travel and on the day. And keep carrier bags aplenty !

I wouldn't stop her going on trips teachers all know travel sickness

Rather than carrier bags I recommend good quality plastic food boxes that are watertight once you've closed the lid properly. Also ask the teachers to ensure she sits as close to the front as possible. Sounds like she likely will be sick, but if she is able to contain it in something watertight then hopefully it won't ruin the day. Oh and mints or something like that to freshen up afterwards.

I remember a friend being sick on a school trip and it wasn't the fact that she was sick so much as the fact that she got it all over herself and me that was the problem!

And does she know to look out of the window and focus on the most distant thing she can see?

I'm a 1:1 my pupil is very travel sick I wouldn't want them to miss out on a school trip. Tell the school so they can be prepared and they know the best place to sit them on the coach.

Electric cars are dreadful for travel sickness. They make me far sicker than normal cars.

She needs to sit right at the front of the coach and make sure she's in a seat where she can see where she's going.

Send her in with sick bags like this

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Believe it or not, I now travel for my job and still carry sick bags everywhere

I personally think it's down to your child if she wants to go as she is the one who is going to be sick. If she can deal with it and wants to go, then let her go. But if she gets anxious about being sick, I would keep her home. Poor thing as being sick is awful.

Thanks for the replies I'm just worried about school not understanding that she will be sick. I'd like them to take it seriously and keep an eye on her as she usually bottles it up until the last second

Could you drive her there and back so she can still go on the trip? It's not going to be much fun for everyone else on the coach if she throws up and could start a chain reaction.

😂 It's so common on a primary school trip. If it's not OP's DD, it'll likely be someone else.

OP, the teachers will be expecting this. We always took a bucket, wet wipes and endless blue paper towels.

School trip we did last year - just over one third of the parents wrote travel sick on the medical form. Quite a few were very huffy that their child couldn't sit in the front row on the coach. Only one child was actually sick and it wasn't someone who had it written on their form

Is it really that common? I feel like we're the only ones that have a child that's so travel sick, no other children we know (bearing in mind not many) have never had it. Its awful to go through I avoid taking DD in the car as much as possible