airsickness

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#1

With all these new planes now being delivered I thought I would share my method for handling airsickness with close friends while flying.

Instead of the usual small plastic lined bags I carry a couple of tall kitchen size Hefty Cinch Sak trash bags, the kind with the pull ties. I tell them when they start to feel like they are going to toss their cookies to stick their head in this sack and pull the plastic tabs tight and not to come out until we either land or the nausea passes or they pass out.

They look at me out of the corner of their eye trying to tell if I am serious or not then we both laugh and they are no longer thinking about their stomach.

Has never failed yet.

Mike

#2

Much more effective with a full size body bag . . . available at your local medical examiner’s office. Again, just tell them to unzip the bag when they feel sick, climb in, then zip the bag up. Then, tell them you will open it at the medical examiner’s office after you land. I have never had to bring anyone to the medical examiner’s office to open the bag.

With all these new planes now being delivered I thought I would share my method for handling airsickness with close friends while flying.

Instead of the usual small plastic lined bags I carry a couple of tall kitchen size Hefty Cinch Sak trash bags, the kind with the pull ties. I tell them when they start to feel like they are going to toss their cookies to stick their head in this sack and pull the plastic tabs tight and not to come out until we either land or the nausea passes or they pass out.

They look at me out of the corner of their eye trying to tell if I am serious or not then we both laugh and they are no longer thinking about their stomach.

Has never failed yet.

Mike

#3

The posts about air sickness motivated me to post. I fly with 4 kids and a quesy wife. We have tried the wrist band called a “Reliefband” and it has thusfar worked everytime. What amazes me is that even when we start out without it and a kid gets nauseated putting it on will stop it. The few times I’ve been airsick in years past it seemed that the only thing that would work was motionless terra firma and Coca Cola.

As a physician I’m baffles as to how they work. It may just be a placebo effect, but they do work. ( So well that I’ve now bought 3!)

#4

We tried the ReliefBand for nausea with excellent results. We haven’t tried it under the worst conditions though.

The posts about air sickness motivated me to post. I fly with 4 kids and a quesy wife. We have tried the wrist band called a “Reliefband” and it has thusfar worked everytime. What amazes me is that even when we start out without it and a kid gets nauseated putting it on will stop it. The few times I’ve been airsick in years past it seemed that the only thing that would work was motionless terra firma and Coca Cola.

As a physician I’m baffles as to how they work. It may just be a placebo effect, but they do work. ( So well that I’ve now bought 3!)