Electronic Relief Bands -- Do they work?
 

Anyone with experience using electronic stimulation Relief Bands for motion sickness on cruises - how high the seas, what kind of motion - rolling, pitch and yaw or both at the same time?

http://www.nomoremotionsickness.com/ReliefBand.html

I was on an Antarctic cruise (small ship) last month. The Drake Passage crossing got kind of rough - two thirds of the ship got sick. One woman used these and she was one of the sickest on board.

FWIW, those of us who took Bonine or Dramamine were just fine.

LOL, A Quick bust. I saw one for sale too somewhere, but my natural predisposition quickly swayed me away from it.

Go to the health food store and buy some Ginger tablets. They work wonderfully and they don't put you in a fog like dramamine. I am not a health food junkie, but saw Ginger tested on mythbusters, and it was one of the only products that worked, and my family has put them to the test successfully.

Not for everyone, unfortunately. I don't know if the problem is the amount or the freshness or what, but I watched two people in particular on my cruise spend five very miserable bed-ridden days using ginger tablets. Don't know where they got their ginger tablets, but one was American and one was Dutch, and both brought it with them.

The Dutch woman got sick again on the return trip. The American woman got some Bonine from another passenger and was OK. If you haven't tried it before, you might want to take a backup along just in case.

Personally, I wasn't crazy about how drowsy the Dramamine made me, but I drank tea and stayed active (sailing ship), so I was fine. Definitely beat the seasickness (Drake Crossing, pretty rough).

My mom gets pretty bad motion sickness and swears by this thing.

Personally, I don't get how it could work, but it does for her - imagined or otherwise.

It allegedly follows the principles of acupuncture, which remains a mystery but plenty of valid justification it works ....... somehow. Same as the principle behind the wrist bands, but juiced up a bit with electronic stimulation rather than acupuncture needles.

There are several operating versions for acupuncture: touch, needles and heat being a few of them. Now electrical stimulation?

These bands were recently "officially" recommended by our tech enrichment lecturers who reviewed travel technology products they found worked for them, and this was one of them.

My worry about Bonine is that it can dry out the upper respiratory tract and just might make someone more vulnerable to upper respiratory infections. Don't know if this is true, but a worry about taking any "medicine" if there are non-medical options that can help almost as well. Time to do a little more research here.