What do you use against sea sickness?

[Sbiriguda]

What do you use against sea sickness during the boat trip? By now I have tried:

Dimenhydrinate (marketed as "Xamamina" here)
White flower oil

White flower is good because it can be used also just before the boat trip or even given to people who already feel sick for them to recover. Overall, it is perhaps less effective than Dimenhydrinate if Dimenhydrinate is taken at least about 1 hour before the boat trip

I also have been suggested to use dehydrated ginger

Which one do you use and do you find more effective?

 

[Diver0001]

What works best for me is sleeping and eating well for several days prior to the dive and avoiding alcohol at all costs.

R..

 

[Sbiriguda]

What works best for me is sleeping and eating well for several days prior to the dive and avoiding alcohol at all costs.
R..

Yes and I noticed that eating for breakfast sweet food like cakes and drinking milk is worse than eating salted foods like sandwiches and drinking water or coke

 

[Johnoly]

Kwells

 

[flyboy08]

My wife swears by ginger.

 

[Jonny Wishbone]

they don't market "triptone" anymore but if you google the active chemical in it there is a walgreens brand that has the same chemical.

 

[melanie.]

Dramamine non drowsy - Meclizine HCI

I pick it up in the USA whenever I go since I can't get it here in Canada. It doesn't make me sleepy like dimenhydrinate does. Though I will most definitely take it if it's all I have. The water hitting my face can wake me up just fine

 

[Jayfarmlaw]

I don't get seasick(yet) but I see ginger candy on the ferry more and more. People swear by it and it does not knock you out like Dramamine.

Good luck, Jay

 

[txgoose]

My wife had a battle with sea sickness on our first boat dive. We got her some Dramamine which worked wonders on the sea sickness but instead of being drowsy, she was a bit loopy/punch drunk. She did not care for that feeling. Felt (and for her reaction, is) unsafe. She switched over to Bonine and has had smooth sailing ever since.

Not advocating one over the other, just relaying her experience. We're all bags of water and chemicals, where each mix is a bit unique.

 

[Photo Girl]

Never get on the boat with an empty stomach.

I always eat a sausage & egg mcmuffin the morning of a dive.