Some parents think that if they will understand why cradles the child in the car, will eliminate this cause and relieve the state of the baby. In some cases, it really helps, but if a child has a predisposition to motion sickness, it is impossible to completely get rid of it. Weak vestibular system is an innate characteristic and can be the cause of a lifetime that person sick in transport.
Notice the poor health of the child is not difficult, if you carefully monitor his condition while driving. The main symptoms of motion sickness include: pallor, skin perspiration coating, palpitations, increased salivation, nausea, dizziness and vomiting. Seeing the first of them, you can try to react in time to ease his condition. To do this, you can do the following:
- open up the windows and let in fresh air;
- provide an overview of the baby, look at the road to persuade;
- give the child a lollipop with sour taste or mints;
- distract, talk to a favorite toy or a cartoon turn if the machine has a means of watching videos;
- to drink water;
- stop to the kid walked a couple of minutes on the ground, or a bite to eat something light.
All of these tools help distract the child from their own feelings and well-being, to switch to other factors. The main problem in traveling to a child's brain that the body is sitting on the ground, but it is moving. This dissonance leads to poor health.
If a child swayed in public transport, bus or shuttle bus, you can ask the driver and other passengers to the kid transplanted closer to the nose of the car. It is important that he was looking at the road ahead, not the side windows. In addition, the driver is often a window open, so the fresh air will ease state kid.
If parents know that a child there is motion sickness, which makes itself felt in traveling, it is best to prepare in advance for the trip and to try to prevent nausea.
