Talk:Seasickness

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This appears to be a direct quotation from [1]. --PJF (talk) 23:36, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

No longer. This is my first attempt at Wikification and I have tried to keep the spirit of the original! --Etimbo 19:44, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Curing sea-sickness

So is it possible to get used to the rocking of a ship? Say someone easily succeptible to it is put on a boat for a full year - I assume they would get used to it after a while but how long does it take? Mithridates 12:43, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Comment by Paul: I have heard different stories about this. Some does not get sea-sick and those who do, becomes temporarily immune after different periods of time. For some it can take a day or two. For some it can take weeks. It seems to be very individually.

Working at a marine institute, we have researchers and other "land lubbers" going out for varying periods with our vessels. Those who get sea sick tend to come in one of three varieties. The really lucky ones get sea sick *once* in their life and then never again. Then there are those who get sick at the beginning of a voyage (1-2 days) and then feel fine. And then there are those who get sick and stay sick. For week after week. Technically, it's a good sign if you get motion sickness. It means your nervous system and balance centre are working just fine. But that's scarcely comforting when you are sick.

[edit] Immune?

Can one get near permanently immune to sea-sickness? Or is a seemingly immune sailor back to normal after some days or months on solid ground?

Some people are very resistant to sea-sickness but nobody is entirely immune. Curiously, infants are very rarely sea-sick.Jmvolc (talk) 18:06, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photo of scuba diver largely irrelevant

Photo of scuba diver largely irrelevant —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.98.228.60 (talk) 01:34, 13 October 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Cause?

There are a great many published studies on sea-sickness that indicate that it has to do with what one sees but more to do with what one feels - ie: repeated accelerations or motions at specific frequencies. (http://www.medicinenet.com/motion_sickness/article.html) & (http://pubs.drdc.gc.ca/inbasket/BCheung.060919_1201.toronto_tr_2006_229_approved.pdf). Shouldn't this fact be included in this article? Jmvolc (talk) 18:20, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nausea

"Unlike other causes of nausea, such as drinking excessive alcohol or eating spoiled food, vomiting does not usually relieve the feelings of nausea, and instead can lead to exacerbated nausea and further vomiting."

Does anyone have a source to support this? I immediately feel better after vomiting from sea sickness. --Drew Lindow (talk) 23:22, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

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The result of the proposal was PAGE MOVED per discussion below. -GTBacchus(talk) 04:05, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

The article itself, the external link, dictionary.com and a general Google search all support the spelling "seasickness" over "sea-sickness." Propaniac (talk) 14:12, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Support. I tho't at first this might be a WP:ENGVAR distinction, but even the UK dictionaries seem to go for the unhyphenated version; I only find the hyphens in older e-tomes, like Britannica 1911 or Webster 1989; hence, it seems to be an archaism. --SigPig |SEND - OVER 08:55, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Support. I entirely agree with the summary above. Hyphens have really gone the way of Old Yeller. (Sigh) --Lox (t,c) 12:27, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.