AHHHHH!!!! Damnit, Vista is driving me nuts, lost another freaking post.
Typically, I give them a Peppermint/Chamomile tea blend with a big spoon of brown sugar, ginger snaps and a dry toasted bagel and put them outside on the back deck. If it doesn't cure them, it at least provides comfort, liquids, some energy and something to keep them from dry heaving (which can be damaging when sustained).
Thing is, nothing works the same for everyone. Some people do well using Scopalomine patches, some people get sick on them before they come aboard. Dramamine works for some even if it's just to make them sleep through the first three days. I know people who use anti-inflamatories and some who even use diuretics
confused: never figured that out except maybe some effect on inner ear pressure?). There's various causes and contributing factors to motion sickness which is why Mythbusters methodology fails here. BTW, I have only rarely seen someone get sick for more than three days, and once had to have someone heli-evacuated due to projectile vomiting. In all these cases the persons were found to have inner ear infections.
An interesting aside: Guests who go through seasickness tend to tip very well, while diver one has to rescue don't tip at all....
