Motion sickness is a common physical response to real or virtual motion. Many people experience it to varying degrees, and it can be uncomfortable.
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Many of us will experience motion sickness at one time or another. It’s often caused by common methods of travel, such as car, train, sea or flying. It can also be caused by modern simulation systems and virtual reality systems (VR). Even something like a ride on a merry go round with your children can result in unwanted motion sickness. This can be inconvenient and uncomfortable.
Typical symptoms of motion sickness can include feelings of nausea (from mild to severe), dizziness, fatigue and sometimes vomiting. Motion sickness can affect the smallest of tasks in everyday life, getting in the way of simple activities such as driving in a car or getting to-and-from work by public transport.
Motion sickness is more common in children (particularly younger ones). Most children who get motion sickness are between six and nine years old. However many children 'grow out' of the symptoms as they reach their teen years and don’t suffer from the effects of it in adolescence and adulthood.
Motion sickness is also more commonly experienced by women, as well as people who suffer from vertigo, Meniere’s disease and migraines.
It’s difficult to know exactly how common it is, but everyone can get it, and most people will probably have experienced it at certain times to some extent.
It’s estimated that over two to three days of being on a large ship at sea, up to 25% of people get motion sickness. And 4% of people who travel by car experience motion sickness. On a commercial plane, fewer than 1% of travellers are thought to get motion sickness. So, as the figures show, it does occur ― even though we can’t be entirely sure of how prevalent it is.
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