Air Sickness

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skateosiris

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Hi, Is there anything I can do to combat airsickness, I've been getting recently during my flight training? like a natural remedy?

And Sometimes when I get the motion sickness, i start to feel light headed, and my hands and legs, and arms start to go numb, this cant be normal can it? Any ideas of why that could be happening?
 
How many flight have you done so far? I used to be the same way, it took almost until my PPL check ride for me to combat it fully. There are some arm bands or something, take a peak at Sportys.com and see what they have. Don't let it ruin your flight experience.
 
I have a student who's been getting air sick recently. But it might be due to being under the hood. So far while doing hood work, he seems to get sick when taking it off and returning to normal visual flight. The first couple of times it went away, but recently it's been prolonging for the entire lesson. One quick remedy was to open the air vent and have it blow in his face. Other than that, it might be something for your body to get used to.

Jtsastre
 
hood work did it to me....But check out the Relief Band. It worked magic for me...
 
All of the recommendations here are good. One has to adapt to the three dimension rotational forces on the body in flight. Fresh air, don't eat too much before flying and gradual adaptation are all that I know work.
 
If you are looking for an excellent natural remedy, search no more! Ginger pills are an extremely effective way to prevent motion sickness, and I would venture to say it's even better than dramamine. I learned about this from Mythbusters, they tested all kinds of different non-medicinal strategies of staving off motion sickness. They found out that the bands don't work very well for most people, but the ginger pills did much better than even the dramamine so I gave ginger a try and it has worked for me very well. I got my bottle at GNC, but I'm sure that almost every vitamin store sells them. Take 1 or 2 every 5 hours as needed.

http://www.gnc.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2133954
 
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