Talk:Seasickness

Editing from a quote
This appears to be a direct quotation from. --PJF (talk) 23:36, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * No longer. This is my first attempt at Wikification and I have tried to keep the spirit of the original! --Etimbo 19:44, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Curing sea-sickness
have you ever had a ride on a ship before? Say someone easily succeptible to it is put on a boat for a full year - I assume they would get used to it after a while but how long does it take? Mithridates 12:43, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Comment by Paul: I have heard different stories about this. Some does not get sea-sick and those who do, becomes temporarily immune after different periods of time. For some it can take a day or two. For some it can take weeks. It seems to be very individually.


 * Working at a marine institute, we have researchers and other "land lubbers" going out for varying periods with our vessels. Those who get sea sick tend to come in one of three varieties. The really lucky ones get sea sick *once* in their life and then never again. Then there are those who get sick at the beginning of a voyage (1-2 days) and then feel fine. And then there are those who get sick and stay sick. For week after week. Technically, it's a good sign if you get motion sickness. It means your nervous system and balance centre are working just fine. But that's scarcely comforting when you are sick.

The name of this section is "curing sea-sickness", but, getting used to something as to not have the symptoms anymore is not a cure, or, at least, I think is not a cure. On another hand, I came to see the articles so I could find out if one could in fact get used to sea sickness (as I suffer from the wretched thing and am going on a trip by sea) but found no info on the article. Could someone ad it? Also, whoever wrote on the paragraph which is on top of this one, from the marine institute (or anybody else) can you specify, more or less, the % of each of the 3 groups? how many people suffer from it, how many people get used to it in 1-2 days and how many do not get used to it? If one suffers from sea-sickness and travels by sea for a week once a month for some months, does one get used to the motion as to not get sick from it eventually? Alessio.aguirre (talk) 16:43, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Photo of scuba diver largely irrelevant
Photo of scuba diver largely irrelevant —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.98.228.60 (talk) 01:34, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I disagree. The photo shows someone who is seasick and therefore it brings the article to life. I have put the image back. Etimbo ( Talk) 21:39, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I notice that User:ArglebargleIV has deleted the image with the explanation "Removing the purely decorative, non-explanatory, nearly irrelevant image of a SCUBA diver. Please don't re-add it."
 * I believe that the article is better with an image than without one. The image shows someone suffering from seasickness and explains that it is a particularly hazardous condition for scuba divers. If all decorative images were removed from Wikipedia, there would hardly be any images left! I also take offence to being instructed "Please don't re-add it." I propose to add the image back. Let's have a discussion. I'm happy to leave the article without an image if the consensus is that it is better with no image at all, or someone can find a better image. -- Etimbo ( Talk) 15:11, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Because no-one objected to my proposal, I have restored the image. -- Etimbo ( Talk) 00:29, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

The photo of the SCUBA diver is not actually a picture of a SCUBA diver. SCUBA means Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. This man is wearing a snorkel. I suggest replacing the photo with one of an actual SCUBA driver (especially considering a the relevance of the photo, as a snorkeler is not prone to decompression sickness since they can only breath above the water). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.206.197.68 (talk) 22:21, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I would second that. The person in the photo isn't wearing a scuba set, and it's not even obvious they were seasick. I have removed the image. Feel free to add a relevant image, or modify the caption of the old image to remove references to SCUBA. -- Dandv ( talk &#124; contribs ) 10:08, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Cause?
There are a great many published studies on sea-sickness that indicate that it has to do with what one sees but more to do with what one feels - ie: repeated accelerations or motions at specific frequencies. (http://www.medicinenet.com/motion_sickness/article.html) & (http://pubs.drdc.gc.ca/inbasket/BCheung.060919_1201.toronto_tr_2006_229_approved.pdf). Shouldn't this fact be included in this article? Jmvolc (talk) 18:20, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * It would be great to expand on the causes. Unfortunately the two links above are broken. -- Dandv ( talk &#124; contribs ) 10:09, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Nausea
"Unlike other causes of nausea, such as drinking excessive alcohol or eating spoiled food, vomiting does not usually relieve the feelings of nausea, and instead can lead to exacerbated nausea and further vomiting."

Does anyone have a source to support this? I immediately feel better after vomiting from sea sickness. --Drew Lindow (talk) 23:22, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the . Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

PAGE MOVED per discussion below. -GTBacchus(talk) 04:05, 13 January 2008 (UTC) The article itself, the external link, dictionary.com and a general Google search all support the spelling "seasickness" over "sea-sickness." Propaniac (talk) 14:12, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Support. I tho't at first this might be a WP:ENGVAR distinction, but even the UK dictionaries seem to go for the unhyphenated version; I only find the hyphens in older e-tomes, like Britannica 1911 or Webster 1989; hence, it seems to be an archaism. -- Sig Pig  |SEND - OVER 08:55, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Support. I entirely agree with the summary above. Hyphens have really gone the way of Old Yeller. (Sigh) --Lox (t,c) 12:27, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the . Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Seasickness in popular culture?
Should we add a small section about how seasickness has been portrayed in the media? For example, how the Mysthbusters tested various cures, or how it is frequently seen in movies and cartoons? TVK (talk) 22:39, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Dubious explanation
One of the alleged cures listed is ''keeping one finger over one ear (blocking one ear). This stops the balancing liquid near your ears from moving around, therefore stopping the brain from detecting any motion sickness''. I have no idea if this has any effect other than a placebo, but the explanation for it makes no sense to me - the balance organs are in the inner ear, so how can they be affected by blocking an ear with a finger? Autarch (talk) 11:15, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * My thoughts exactly Alessio.aguirre (talk) 16:38, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Remedies/medications
The discussion of OTC and prescription remedies seems to apply only to certain areas of the world - I'm not sure where this information is most applicable, but it probably shouldn't be stated as general fact since some of it varies significantly by country. (For example, in the USA and some other parts of the Americas, dimenhydrinate (often sold as Dramamine) is not prescription but instead OTC.) Anyone know how best to remedy this to represent that the medications and their availabilities vary regionally? Skpearman (talk) 08:08, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

What wave and vessel characteristics cause seasickness?
It would be informative to describe minimum the wave characteristics that cause seasickness. I assume it's largely a combination of significant wave height and vessel size. -- Dandv ( talk &#124; contribs ) 10:01, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
 * This would be difficult, as there appears to be no minimum sea state. Some people get seasick in a harbour, on a boat tied up at a jetty, and no boat is so big that no-one will get seasick on it. Peter (Southwood) (talk): 08:02, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Wrong information
"Consequently most people tend to concentrate on the inner surroundings, or close the eyes and try to sleep. This will cause the worst effect of the disturbance."

Closing my eyes and trying to sleep have worked fine for me for many years. It may not work for lots of people, or even most people, but it is definitely an effective strategy for some. I suggest removing this. And incidentally, why wouldn't this work? The eyes and balance centers will not get contradictory information if your eyes are closed! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dsandber (talk • contribs) 23:25, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * My experiences coincide with the above. I always felt much better lying flat in a warm place with my eyes closed, and never felt sick while actually sleeping. Furthermore I used to get seasick quite easily in rough weather until I spent a year living on board (1987/8) and have never been seasick since. Peter (Southwood) (talk): 08:06, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Cure-Pop
A section can be created halfway between Cure and Popular culture / urban legends, including the non demonstrated (or documented) methods of finger or closing eyes. My mother said chewing lemon prevents ss.ss. ※ Sobreira ◣◥ (parlez) 19:33, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
 * More in motion sickness