T&T: Sea Sic

[Rock Bradford]

Over the past forty years, i've spent a lot of miles on long trips, where
seasickness can be more than a bit of discomfort and puking.    i have had
folks, even old salts, get seriously seasick and quickly dehydrated.  used
to be the only thing that worked when one was already seasick was phenergan
injection (but it has loads of side effects).  being able to get scopalomine
in a gel form from a compounding pharmacy allows the right dosing to treat
and stop the seasickness.  for the record, we also carry several 500 ml bags
of normal saline for dehydration . . . . of course i'm talking about
crossing oceans here, not navigating the icw.

Rock Bradford
44' Cygnus "Magpie"
Georgetown, SC







On Dec 28, 2007 6:00 PM, Wade Stephan <wadestep at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I completely agree with Rock.  I have lots of family and friends that get
> sick, and transderm scop is the only thing that has been mostly reliable.
>  It is the round patch you put behind your ear.  It can also be cut in half.
>  Only side effects I have seen are drymouth.
>
> The other statement I agree with is that anything someone thinks will
> help, probably will.  I don't believe I get seasick, and it has now been
> years since I have been.  Often, what you think about being sea-sick is a
> self-fufilling prophesy.
>
> Wade
> Fort Myers, FL
>
> RE.>
> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:43:34 -0500
> From: "Rock Bradford" <afdip123 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: T&T: sea sick
> To: "C. Marin Faure" <cmfaure at earthlink.net>
> Cc: trawlers-and-trawlering at lists.samurai.com
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> 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
>
>
>
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