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Reduce car sickness with these easy tips

Don’t let motion sickness ruin your road trip. Follow these tips to feel better in no time.

NAUSEA, HEADACHES, DIZZINESS and vomiting are all unpleasant symptoms of motion sickness. However, you can help reduce some of these complaints with these handy tips and tricks.

Call shotgun - front seat passengers experience less motion sickness than those travelling in the back. The driver is generally less susceptible to car sickness than the passengers so, if you can, opt to be the driver.

Air - open the windows to allow fresh air to circulate in the car.

Focus - look ahead and pick a spot to concentrate on just a little above the horizon. Keep your gaze fixed and your head as still as possible.

Ginger - this spice is well known for helping with nausea. Try sipping on ginger tea, sucking ginger sweets or even nibbling on ginger biscuits.

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Protein - small protein rich snacks have been shown to help ease motion sickness symptoms and sipping protein drinks over carbonated drinks is also supposed to help.

Relax - take a pillow, put it behind your head, sink into it, concentrate on your breathing and keep your eyes closed.

If these don’t work, your pharmacist and doctor can advise on medication and other remedies.

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    Mute seeingeye
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    May 23rd 2016, 8:22 AM

    It’s really not that hard to slow down. Your destination will still be there and you’ll still have your life and a car at the end.

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    Mute Ionus Costinas
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    May 23rd 2016, 8:37 AM

    Why are you assuming speed was the cause?

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    Mute Martin Byrne
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    May 23rd 2016, 8:43 AM

    You can overturn an low speeds.

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    Mute seeingeye
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    May 23rd 2016, 8:46 AM

    What else causes cars to roll over? Pretty sure there weren’t extreme winds or an angry mob around to push the car over.

    Don’t be willfully ignorant. Most car accidents (rollovers included) in this country are caused by excessive speed.

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    Mute Ionus Costinas
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    May 23rd 2016, 8:51 AM

    Stupidity that’s what. You don’t need to be particularly fast to overturn a car.

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    Mute Cillian McCormick
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    May 23rd 2016, 9:21 AM

    I once rolled a car over a couple of years ago going at a low speed. Tight corner down a fairly narrow rural road I hit a slippy/oily patch and lost the rear, I panicked and ran out of road as I tried to correct it – I went into the ditch which acted like a ramp, so to speak, and she rolled over. Definitely wasn’t me going too fast. To be fair though from that photo it seems the driver was on a nice good stretch of road so you have to think speed did play a part.

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    Mute Andy Byrne
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    May 23rd 2016, 10:12 AM

    Seeingeye, the marks on the road aren’t very long, which could mean it didn’t go very far upside down, that’d suggest lower speed, and that car looks light and fairly tall, so maybe a higher centre of gravity!! That could overturn it without high speed!!

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    Mute David Mc Shite
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    May 23rd 2016, 12:04 PM

    In fairness, The Fiat Panda will role a lot sooner and easier than other cars due to its odd dynamics of narrow axel width combined with high center of gravity. Two lads could push one over.

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    Mute john kelly
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    May 23rd 2016, 12:38 PM

    Ya, it’s definitely possible to roll at low speed. You can tell by the comparatively low roof damage that the vehicle wasn’t being driven excessively fast.

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    Mute John Moylan
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    May 23rd 2016, 3:27 PM

    @seeingeye – don’t be wilfully ignorant ? Would you not apply this to your own comment ? You can roll a car at low speed. This is fact, not science fiction.

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    Mute Termaz Fx
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    May 23rd 2016, 6:31 PM

    Rear tyre on the drivers side is different from the rest, such combination is a deathtrap.
    I am honestly surprised that this is legal and does not void the insurance.

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    Mute Right Human
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    May 23rd 2016, 8:48 AM

    That’s why you don’t buy a car that looks like a confused mutated blue bubble.

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    May 23rd 2016, 9:42 AM

    A 4 sentence story….wow give me more of this obdulla longata porn.

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    May 23rd 2016, 11:29 AM

    Same story as yesterday’s today?

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    May 23rd 2016, 10:39 AM

    Fiat Panda, must have rolled over a snail

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    May 23rd 2016, 12:20 PM

    Did Holmatro sponsor this post?

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    May 23rd 2016, 8:47 AM

    It’ll be on car sales websites as a time warp minter in a few weeks time.

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    May 23rd 2016, 11:54 AM

    Thats a wide road along there, it turned over because of bad driving is all

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    May 23rd 2016, 4:51 PM

    Is that a fiat cinquecento or (chunttogetinto)

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    May 23rd 2016, 3:54 PM

    There was a strong gust of wind in Tallaght yesterday morning.

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    May 24th 2016, 7:13 AM

    Not a single mention about the fire truck being a Scania 340 4×2 crew cab.

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