Gastric Guidelines

[tamaranth]

Things I learnt yesterday:
- I am quite right to avoid eating for a couple of hours before road travel, especially in a van, especially if I'm not driving.
- W H Smith at the M11 service station does sell travel sickness pills, but only homeopathic ones. ("Take two pills. If symptoms do not disappear, take one pill ...").
- When my other digestive problem is playing up, protein (DUCK!!!) is good; alcohol (CIDER!!!) is fine; anything with milk /flour (if only I knew which!) is going to be over pretty quickly.

Things I am reminding myself of today:
- dull bland food
- Colpermin

Comments

[serennos.livejournal.com]

Oh nooo!

::much sympathy::

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

Eewww! I used to have terrible travel sickness when I was younger so I can sympathise.
As for selling homeopathic travel sickness pills, that's just WRONG.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

We've used homeopathic travel sickness pills exclusively with M&J. Both have a tendency to travel sickness; the homeopathic pills completely prevent it. And no nasty side effects! Fab stuff. And they're way past the age when a packet of polo mints would do just as well.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Colpermin and peppermint tea are your friend.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

I'd recommend ginger tea for sickness.

[avirr.livejournal.com]

*hugs you* Riding in the back of a van is awful, a fact somewhat abused by my teenage son...

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

you might want to try Weleda Melissa comp; you put a few drops in water or swig from the bottle in emergencies - melissa, cloves, cinnamon, lemon balm and lots of other things that tone and relax the gut without tasting horrid

[elinor.livejournal.com]

I regularly use ginger (as tea, in ginger bisciuts or eaten neat), petitgrain and peppermint essential oils (usually dabbed onto a hanky for ease of sniffing), travel bands and rescue remedy for my travel sickness - usually all at once.