18 Month Old Gets Carsick

I have a child who gets carsick. She also has other symptoms of being overloaded with bacteria. I've been treating with SAMENTO. It's a bit better but it will take a year I think for her to get better. Stop these foods (if she not allergic to them already) egg yolk, seafood, sugar, pears,potatoe,apple, flax, soy and all its derivatives (soy protien,soy extract, soy casienate, etc. it is interesting to note that the same foods that cause the growth and reproduction of the bacteria are the same foods that give us a "feel good" feeling. For example, a can of coke always makes me feel better when I am in the back seat. Sugar is an immediate food to L form bacteria and fungus.

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Hi. This really works! Go to your natural food store... either GNC or if you are in Sac, go to Sunshine in the strip mall with OilStop on the corner of Fair Oaks & Madison. Get some 100% peppermint essential oil. When you go anywhere, put a couple of drops of this oil on a tissue and put it on the floor. Peppermint keeps you from getting sick.

My grandson could never read in the car because he would get really sick and on the trip from Texas to California, we did this and he was not sick and could read.

You need to keep the peppermint away from her though... if she would drink it, it is toxic. If you get it on your fingers, wash because it can blind you if it gets in your eyes... and do not set the bottle on a finish you like... it will eat it as well as plastic. I just want to give you all the info, not scare you.

I guarantee that if you do the tissue trick, you will find that she will not be sick. Any questions, feel free to email me at ____@____.com.

C., I feel your pain. My daughter is now 7 and has been getting car sick since about 12 or 18 months old.
You can find chewable Dramamine at the store for those long trips.
For shorter trips we just tried to keep a window down or some air blowing in her direction. Putting her car seat in the middle also helped.
For the mess, we have an "emergency kit" we keep in the car. It has a couple of gallon size ziploc bags (you can put the stinky stuff in there and seal it), a few burp cloths or cloth diapers (to help clean up and/or put over the seat on the drive home), a small bottle of water (to help with clean-up or to rinse her mouth), some baby wipes to help clean up and a change of clothes.
At 18 months she would throw up on short drives of 15 mins or long ones and it was very unpredictable. Now, she rarely gets sick- just those long drives on curvey roads.
Good luck!
D.

You can try sea sick bands (you get them online or at a drugstore). They work great for pregnancy morning sickness and are meant for motion sickness. (It is a bracelet worn on your wrist on an acupuncture point that helps with nausea). Good luck!

Hi,

My daughter has always gotten car sick too. She is now 6 yrs and still gets it even when we don't drive too far. She has never thrown up, but she gets really bad stomach aches. We make sure that she looks out into the horizon. Even for someone who doesn't get car sick and likes to read or something in the car can start to feel sick. One needs to look out the window, because you can feel like you don't know where you are at. Almost like losing your equalibrium (sp?). So, when our daughter starts to complain of a stomach ache, we roll down the windows to give her fresh air and make sure that when she is doing something in the car, that she often looks out into the horizon. I guess t.v.'s in the car aren't for everyone ;) Also, when she is in school make sure the teachers know she gets car sick before a field trip. My daughters teachers put her in the front of the bus with the window cracked open. That way she has fresh air and is able to see out of the window in front of her rather than looking at the back of the seat and giggling with her friends before she starts to feel sick.

Take care,
N.

May not be car sickness. Her body is folded a bit in the car seat and can put pressure on her abdomen. The pressure might make her feel sick to her stomach. Does she get sick in her car seat when sitting in the house.

A friend of mine had a baby who threw up all the time when he was sitting up or laying down on his tummy. He had a hernia between his stomach and esophagus. It was a hiatal hernia. The doctors eventually, did an operation and the throwing up stopped.

Just my thoughts,
S

Wow! Two of my three children got carsick in the car when they were little, but it was always brought on by longer tirps on windy roads. If you are going on a long trip, you can give her Drammine...consult your Pediatrician about the dose. It seems like once they are old enough to be facing forward and tall enough to see out the front window, they don't get sick as much. We always carried a sand pail in the car when the kids were little and still carry one on long trips even if we have Dramamine in them.

It is unusual for a child to get sick on such short trips around town, so I suggest that you also consult your Pediatrician or an ENT...it may be that she has Vertigo or something else going on.

As far as the the throw up smell, try a pet odor remover product as most of those have enzymes to deal with the proteins in urine, vomit, etc.

Take care and good luck!

I use mint drops from the health food store for my kids when they have upset stomach. It helps a ton. I don't know how young you can use it. It is just an extract from mint leaves. I have heard Pectin is also good, but I use lifesavers with Pectin for me. That won't work for a Baby, so try googling Pectin for Car Sickness. Good luck!

T.

Have you tried an acupressure wrist band? I'm prone to motion sickness myself and I wore a Bioband (bioband.com) on our last cruise and during a shore excursion involving a very rocky catamaran ride. No problems! They make a kids version and it's adjustable with Velcro. Drug free!

Good luck!
-C.

C.,

I get soooooo carsick, so I understand. Ginger helps. At that age, she probably won't want to drink ginger ale (Canada Dry and other regular store brands have none - if you go this route, you'll need to get a less well known brand that actually has ginger in it. Try some ginger beer maybe), but ginger snaps will work - give her a couple before you head out, maybe 20 minutes before.

As for the odor, try Zero Odor. Google it, and the first non-sponsored link will take you there. It is GREAT stuff.

Hi C.!

My daughter, now 6 years old, started getting carsick at the age of 2. It was horrible and I'm sad for you that you are having this issue. It's so hard for us moms to watch our kids feel horrible and then to clean it up is gross!

One thing my Ped. told me was not to give dairy products soon before leaving on a trip...even to the grocery store in your case. Dairy products take a while to digest and it sits in the stomach longer therefore a more higher chance of vomiting.

I have just recently purchased Sea Bands off Amazon.com and they are FANTASTIC!! The last 2 trips we've taken she has not gotten sick or even felt like it. These have worked tremendously and they are not expensive...$7.95 for the pair.

What is does it put pressure on a main nerve so that it stops a signal to the brain that causes the nausea. Carsickness is basically the eyes seeing motion but the body doesn't feel motion or vice versa. The mixed up signals to the brain causes nausea. These bands stop that signal reaching the brain so resulting in a happy child because they are not nauseous.

I hope this helps! Also, try, if you can, see what time of day or what she eats triggers it. Sometimes this is hard, but over time it has helped us.

Our daughter gets more nauseous if we drive early in the morning vs. afternoon.

I'll pray for you...it's not easy...

T.

Try one of these on the carseat to save you from having to wash the carseat cover... we washed and dried our BundeMe Light on HIGH. www.jjcoleusa.com/lite-bundleme
Having two will ensure you always have a clean surface to put your daughter on in the car. You can use it with or without the cover but we prefered to wipe puke (reflux in our case) off the cover instead of the belts and his clothes. Try to remove all strong scents/ordors from your car as they can contribute to carsickness. If you use scented soap or fabric softener on the careseat cover they will be much stronger than on clothes going through the dryer. Wash the cover with unscented soap and put 2 capfuls of vinegar in the "fabric softener cup" for your washer... this will help with the puke smell and will also help strip any other scents and fabric softener residues. You can use your dryer for the carseat cover if you have an "air fluf" setting or you can try the lowest heat setting available. The other option is to endear her to a couple of favorite blankets and make her "cozy bugged" every time she's in the car to try to save the seatbelts and carseat cover from the puke. My heart goes out to you - it's so hard to see our kiddos not feeling well and so hard to feel trapped in the house for fear of puke :<

I know when my son was about your daughters age, he got carsick quite a bit. His Physician told me to give him a teaspoon of benedryl and to keep saltine crackers on hand in the car whenever we went anywhere. Benedryl is like dramamine that we adults use. It really worked. Thankfully, he is almost 11 now and he has out grown it. I hope this helps.

I feel you. My son gets car sick anytime he eats or drinks something red before gettng in the car. Never fails. Don't know what the common denominator for you is, but try to figure it out, and then avoid it. Most often it is something we do habitually and don't even know. Good luck.

I don't know the answer to her being carsick, and would recommend you talk with her pediatrician about that.
But, I do have a suggestion for how to handle it without feeling like you can't go out with her. How about taking some nice large towels... beach towels come to mind... and put them over her in the carseat in such a way that if she vomits the towels will catch most if not all of it? Keep three or four towels in the car with you so you have plenty. Also keep some large plastic bags so that once a towel has been hit with vomit, you can take it off of her, and tie it up in the plastic until you get home to wash the towel. Simply shake the heavy stuff off into the trash then stick the towel(s) in the washer. Here's a bonus to this idea - those towels that reach your destination clean can also be used to cover the handles of a grocery cart to help keep her from getting into unnecessary germs. We use one on the seat of the cart and one over the handles for our grandchildren.

If you can put her car seat in the center where she will be able to look through the front windshield and see the road, that might help. It helps my son, though he is a lot older than she is.

You could also try homeopathic chamomilla.