T&T: sea sick

[Rock Bradford]

Marin, if you have a doctor handy as well as a compounding pharmacy, you
might try a prescription for a scopolamine gel which, used intradermally,
will be effective even after someone is sea sick. we keep it in our medical
kit.   if you've got some warning, try a transderm-scop patch, which lasts
for 3 days and also requires a prescription (at least in this country.  even
lord nelson, britain's greatest naval hero, spent his first three days at
sea in bed with *mal de mer.*

Rock Bradford
Cygnus 44' "Magpie"
Georgetown, SC

On Dec 27, 2007 5:23 PM, C. Marin Faure <cmfaure at earthlink.net> wrote:

>  >Or does anyone have other
> suggestions for acute sea sickness.
>
> You may have tried this already, but we've heard from a number of
> sources that ginger is a good preventative for seasickness.  i don't
> know if this is true and I haven't tried it myself.  Guests on our
> boat have and they didn't get seasick.  But this may be due to the
> fact we didn't encounter rough water on the cruise.  Or maybe ginger
> is an effective seasickness preventative.
>
> While people can certainly get seasick for physical reasons, a lot of
> people get seasick--- or more seasick--- for psychological reasons.
> I used to get seasick when fishing offshore of Oahu in the '70s.  I
> would worry about it when going out, and it would never be far from
> my mind while we were out twenty to forty miles bouncing around in a
> 28' boat in the open ocean.  But as queasy as I might become, as soon
> as we started home, even though we were still trolling in the same
> open, rough water and it would be a few hours before we trolled our
> way home, I would start to feel better.  By the time we got to the
> dock, I'd be ready to go back out again.  Totally psychological in my
> case.
>
> If you can find something-- anything--- that your daughter believes
> will work, the chances are it will.
>
>
> ____________________
> C. Marin Faure
> GB36-403 "La Perouse"
> Bellingham, Washington
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