Anti-nausea wristbands really work??

pgwenthold said:
I get sicker than hell on the swings at the park. Any suggestions?
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Yeah, I made that mistake a few times. As a kid, you probably get used to it without noticing, and go on swings enough to keep up your "immunity". As an adult, if you haven't been on a swing in years, you can easily lose your lunch.
 
I just found a study being conducted by the NIHR in the UK regarding these anti-nausea wristbands. The results won't be available until next year, but it really seems like people are taking these things pretty seriously.

I wonder what the implications would be in the medical community if these things were to be proven effective? Would all of acupressure have to be seriously considered in the future? Acupuncture?

I wonder what the implications would be in the woo community... :boggled:
 
Stay off the swings?


In small boats and turbulent flights I find pressing my fingers against my ears, really hard can deaden my sense of movement enough to control motion sickness. Probably result in deafness lkong term though.
 
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MikeSun5 said:
I just found a study being conducted by the NIHR in the UK regarding these anti-nausea wristbands. The results won't be available until next year, but it really seems like people are taking these things pretty seriously.

I wonder what the implications would be in the medical community if these things were to be proven effective? Would all of acupressure have to be seriously considered in the future? Acupuncture?

I wonder what the implications would be in the woo community... :boggled:
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Well I note again that they're using the acupressure along with standard anti-emetics. So I'm not sure that study is a whole lot different than the ones we looked at earlier in the thread.
 
pgwenthold said:
I get sicker than hell on the swings at the park. Any suggestions?
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I would guess your ears feel the fore and aft tipping, so maybe looking to the side would be best, the view there would also be tipping back and forth?

Or maybe the G forces? They think you are moving up and down, so looking at the horizon might be best?

point is to synch the senses.
 
I've been motion sick twice. Once I when I was 9 we took the ferry down to Tasmania and it was right after a huge storm went through. The ship was rolling so badly that they closed most of the outside walkways. The second was on the cruise ship Princess Grand. The ship is well known as being extremely unstable on anything other than calm seas. They were giving away the bracelets with the beads for free or you could pay for the magic ones that shock you on your pressure point. I was probably the only one on the ship who wasn't wearing one of them.
 
Dramamine was brilliant...

When a youngester I was always the one they had to stop the coach for on school trips :blush: , it was very traumatic :o . Used to get car sick when going to school in the mornings!!! in fact the only forms of "transport" that didn't make me heave were a trains, canal boats or bicycles ! I was made to sit on a pile of news papers in the family car ( an old wifes tale that didn't work) , we had one of those strips that dangled from the car onto the road, tried ginger in a variety of forms, the horizon thing was hopeless when at sea ( I recall a particular ferry journey to The Hook of Holland where i threw up so much I burst the blood vessels in the skin around my eyes) and in later years tried the wristbands to no avail ! It has improved a tad since becoming a "grown up", but I still take a travel sickness tablet before certain journeys - Dramamine was flippin' brilliant, but you can't seem to get it in the UK anymore , so have had to resort to Stugeron :rolleyes: I guess some of us are just made that way :):)
 
If looking at the horizon works for sea sickness and related illnesses then so will closing your eyes for the same reason. So if you cannot look outside then resting with your eyes shut will work.
 
Antiquehunter said:
Well I note again that they're using the acupressure along with standard anti-emetics. So I'm not sure that study is a whole lot different than the ones we looked at earlier in the thread.
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As far as I can tell, the people in the "real" wristband group, the people in the "fake" wristband group, and the control group are ALL receiving anti-emetics. That would make the anti-emetics a non-factor, right? The study is measuring the efficiacy of the wristbands in conjunction with anti-emetics... That's why it's weird.
 
MikeSun5 said:
As far as I can tell, the people in the "real" wristband group, the people in the "fake" wristband group, and the control group are ALL receiving anti-emetics. That would make the anti-emetics a non-factor, right? The study is measuring the efficiacy of the wristbands in conjunction with anti-emetics... That's why it's weird.
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Yes - and I'm not sure you can make the argument:

70% of people in the control group said they had 'less nausea'
78% of people in the emetics & anti-nausea band category report 'less nausea'

Therefore anti-nausea bands are effective.

I would have to say 'no, they're not'. There may be an accretive effect, but its not proven by the test.

I haven't seen any of these studies (yet) that take a group of 'x' number of people who suffer from nausea and have them EITHER use wristbands OR anti-emetics.

To me, that would potentially show some meaning.

But - I'm not a scientist, statisician or a doctor - if I'm being obtuse, I'm sure someone will point it out.
 
Antiquehunter said:
I haven't seen any of these studies (yet) that take a group of 'x' number of people who suffer from nausea and have them EITHER use wristbands OR anti-emetics.

To me, that would potentially show some meaning.
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I think that's fair.

...but I'd imagine that since the doctors know anti-emetics do work, they wouldn't want to disallow them on the likely chance the patient suffers unnecessarily simply for the sake of a study. ;) Could you imagine some poor cancer patient puking his guts out and a doctor denying him medication because "we're trying to test if that wristband works, man!"
 
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