Travel Sickness

Travel sickness is a common problem that can occur when a person is travelling by any form of transport, but usually occurs when people travel by boat, car or air. There are a number of reliable solutions available that can alleviate the symptoms of travel sickness at speed.

What Is Travel Sickness?

Travel sickness is a condition that affects people travelling by various means, resulting in a feeling of dizziness and nausea. Particularly where people are travelling for long periods of time, these symptoms can be enough to dissuade patients from setting off on their trips and have a very tangible impact upon the freedom to travel with confidence.

Travel Sickness Treatment Options

The most commonly suggested advice for combating the symptoms of the illness is to ensure that you can see the movement that your body is experiencing. On a boat, step onto the deck and watch the horizon. In a car, sit in the front and look out into the distance. On a train, sit next to a large window and be sure to be in a seat that is facing forwards. This helps to avoid the conflict that occurs in your body and causes travel sickness.

However, some people who experience travel sickness regularly do not find that these tips work for them and may find a pharmaceutical solution more effective. The range of medicines available to treat travel sickness do not tend to eliminate the conflicting messages to the brain, but rather they fight off the symptoms of the illness to make travelling bearable. One such travel sickness treatment is Scopoderm TTS, a convenient patch that can be applied to the body to stop the symptoms of vomiting and nausea.

What Is The Difference Between Travel Sickness and Sea Sickness?

Travel sickness, sea sickness and motion sickness are all caused by this same disagreement between what the senses perceive to be happening and what is actually happening to your body. Whilst your eyes may tell you that you are stationary, your inner-ear fluid tells your brain that you are moving. Since these varied forms of the illness have the same cause, the treatment is the same for each.

Travel Sickness Symptoms

Usually, people who suffer from travel sickness will experience a feeling of nausea soon after they begin travelling, which will intensify over time. Eventually, this may lead to vomiting. There is some evidence to suggest that some people can have a tendency to encounter these symptoms regularly, and these people in particular should seek a reliable treatment before symptoms develop.

Travel Sickness Causes

The human body uses fluid in small canals in the inner ear to monitor balance – as the fluid moves around, the brain interprets this as movement. Travel sickness is the result of a disagreement in the body between what the eyes perceive to be happening and what the inner ear reports to be happening.

Whilst sitting in a car, train or boat, for example, the body is in constant motion and the inner ear reports this to the brain. However, our eyes are looking at the inside of the car, train or boat and, as a result they tell the brain that the body isn’t moving at all. This conflict results in the symptoms of nausea, vertigo and vomiting.

Travel Sickness Treatment Available with Prescriptions

Safe Direct Delivery from Regulated Pharmacists

Prescription2Home offers a safe and reliable service, run by UK registered doctors and pharmacists, to provide consultations that may lead to a private prescription for Travel Sickness treatment.

At Prescription2Home you can take an online consultation that, if approved by our doctors, will lead to a private prescription. Our doctors will review your consultation responses to ensure that your chosen treatment is right, and safe, for you. On approval, we send the approved prescription electronically to our partner Pharmacy for dispensing and fulfilment. Prescriptions sent electronically to the Pharmacy before 3.30pm on working days can be despatched direct to your home for next day delivery.

You may review information on Scopoderm by clicking on the treatment images on this page. If you require any advice or clarification from our doctors, please leave your questions here, and one of our doctors will respond shortly.

When you have considered the full range of Travel Sickness treatment options and think you know which treatment is right for you, please select your preferred treatment and progress to an online consultation.

Scopoderm TTS

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Scopoderm TTS is a powerful and convenient way to stop sea sickness that is largely free of side effects and enables travellers to enjoy their journey without nausea and anxiety. This travel sickness treatment is delivered in easy to apply patches which can prevent motion sickness for the duration of even the longest journeys.