2023-06-04 22:02:36
Children between the ages of 6 and 12 are particularly prone to motion sickness because the functions involved in managing balance are maturing. DANIEL JEDZURA
OUR HEALTH ADVICE – This very common phenomenon is due to a conflict between our sight, our inner ear and our proprioception sensors.
The summer holidays are approaching and, with them, their share of long journeys by road, rail, sea or air. But who can claim to have remained unmoved during the crossing to the archipelago of the seven islands, off the Pink Granite Coast, in this boat smelling so strongly of gasoline? Or not having flinched in the bus rallying Gap to Barcelonnette in the middle of the beautiful mountains of the Ubaye valley, in the Southern Alps? We all have memories of a trip gone wrong. How to explain motion sickness ? Can we cut it? Le Figaro interviewed two specialists.
We are not all equal in the face of this phenomenon, called “kinetosis” in medical jargon. Some are able to read in the car, even on winding roads, while others already feel a little nauseous in the TGV. “Women – especially when they are pregnant – and children aged 6 to 12 are particularly susceptibleinforms Professor Alexis…
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