Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Semester in Salzburg, what to eat?

I am not exactly sure all the food available in Salzburg.

However, I have some thoughts on motion sickness. It is thought that motion sickness may be a conflict between sensory information. Example in a car, your inner ear tells your brain you are moving and your eyes (reading or looking at something in the car) tell your brain you are not moving. And, your stomach takes on the conflict. Some helpful things to do is look ahead, look at the horizon. Doing so gives your brain/nervous system information that you are moving and may help decrease the conflict. Sleeping also helps. If I have to ride a bus or in the back seat of a car, I fall asleep quickly and I know it is my body shutting out the conflict. I have tried the wrist bands with buttons on them and ginger capsules. That worked on one trip. However, I have forgotten the bands every since. Having crystallized ginger or ginger tea may help. If you have to sit inside where you can't see outside or it is dark, you can either sleep or pay close attention to the way your weight shifts as you sit. Paying attention to weight shifting is using more information to help intervene in the conflict. This technique worked for me on a night ferry ride in waves that felt big to me between the mainland and Cozumel. Hopefully that makes some sort of sense.

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