The medications currently available for motion sickness are strong enough that I recently felt only slightly off while crossing the notoriously rough Drake Passage (sometimes referred to as the Drake “shake”) between Cape Horn and Antarctica, albeit while the seas were mostly cooperating.
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Here are some tried-and-true tips and advice for how to avoid motion sickness on a cruise. Agitated by this perceptual incongruity, the brain responds with a cascade of stress-related hormones that can ultimately lead to nausea, vomiting, and vertigo.” “But, since the cabin moves with the passenger, one’s eyes register a relatively stable scene.
“Inside the cabin of a rocking boat, for example, the inner ear detects changes in both up-and-down and side-to-side acceleration as one’s body bobs along with the boat,” according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. For those who don’t know what seasickness is, it starts with your brain getting conflicting information from your inner ear and eyes. I’ve avoided motion sickness on a cruise by bringing the best motion sickness medicines for cruising and by being familiar with factors that contribute to not feeling great-and how to avoid them. But of the approximately 170 cruises I have been on in my life, I have only actually been sick twice, once in particularly strong waves off the coast of Corsica and once when the Pacific was misbehaving off Baja. I am a cruise writer who suffers from seasickness.
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