MOTION SICKNESS OR TRAVELLING SICKNESS AND HOMEOPATHIC MANAGEMENT

                                       MOTION SICKNESS OR TRAVELLING SICKNESS

               

                Motion sickness or travelling sickness is a type of sickness that affects certain individuals during sea, land or air travel.

AETIOLOGY OR CAUSES:-

-          The cause is remains unknown.

-          Repeated stimulation of the vestibular apparatus may be responsible.

-          Persons suffering from migraine, diabetes mellitus or nephritis.

-          Pregnant women are more susceptible.

SYMPTOMS:-

-          The affected person starts feeling unwell while travelling.

-          Headache.

-          Excessive salivation.

-          Nausea and vomiting.

-          Visual disturbances (e.g. diplopia).

-          The face is pale, the skin is cold, pulse Is rapid and the blood pressure is low.

-          In case of severe attack, the person may faint or even collapse.

-          On discontinuation of the journey, the symptoms usually subside within a few hours but may persist even for days in susceptible individuals. Motion sickness is, however, not fatal.

DIETS:-

-          Avoid heavy food or heavy meals while before travel.

-          Use more of liquid foods, fruits or fruit juices.

-          Chew bubble gum or chocolates while travelling.

-          Glucose powders or ors powders will be helpful.

TREATMENT:-

-          Susceptible persons should take due precautions while travelling.

-          The affected person should rest quietly with minimum possible movement.

-          A rich carbohydrate diet or frequent sugar drinks are advisable.

-          Cyclizine hydrochloride 50 mg three times a day prevents or diminishes the severity of symptoms.

-          Dimenhydrinate 25 mg thrice daily is equally effective.

HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT:-

1.       COCCULUS INDICUS:-

Vertigo, nausea, especially when riding or sitting. Headache in occiput and nape; worse, lying on back of head. Sick headache from carriage riding cannot lie on back part of head. Opening and shutting sensation, especially in occiput. Pupils contracted. Pain in eyes as if torn out of head. Nausea from riding in cars, boat, etc., or looking at boat in motion; worse on becoming cold or taking cold. Aversion to food, drink, tobacco. Sea sickness. Sensation in stomach as if one had been a long time without food until hunger was gone.

2.       PETROLENUM:-

Sensitive, as of a cold breeze blowing on it. Motion sickness. Headache, must hold temples to relieve; provoked by shaking while coughing. Vertigo on rising, felt in occiput, as if intoxicated, or like sea-sickness. Dim sight; far-sighted; cannot read fine print without glasses; blennorrhea of lachrymal sac; marginal blepharitis. Ringing and cracking in ears. Nausea, with accumulation of water in mouth.

3.       SEPIA:-

Stinging pain from within outward and upward mostly left, or in forehead, with nausea, vomiting; worse indoors and when lying on painful side. Feeling of goneness; not relieved by eating. [Carb. an.]. Nausea at smell or sight of food. Nausea worse lying on side. Nausea in morning before eating. Disposition to vomit after eating. Acid dyspepsia with bloated abdomen, sour eructations.

Some of other drugs for motion sickness and travelling sickness are given below.

1.        CALC CARB.

2.       CALCAREA PHOS.

3.       CYCLAMEN.

4.       HEPAR SULPH.

5.       IRIS.

6.       LYCOPODIUM.

7.       MAGNESIUM CARB.

8.       NUX MOSCHATA.

9.       NUX VOMICA.

10.   TABACUM.

11.   THERIDION.