Don’t Let Travel Sickness Ruin Your Holiday!

Year on year many of us manage to bag great value cheap holidays, in order to escape from the daily stresses of every day work and have a well-deserved break somewhere hot. Whilst many of us can’t wait to hop on the plane and begin our holiday, the less fortunate dread traveling due to travel sickness.

This blog will explore the new invention by a Norfolk farmer, which could see the end to this sickness, so that everyone can look forward to enjoying their great value cheap holiday and not need to worry about this aspect any more. 

In the past

‘Cures’ for sickness caused by travelling in the past have ranged from wearing bracelets to chewing ginger and staring at the horizon to taking tablets. Yes, some of these past remedies have been far from pleasant and what’s more frustrating; none have provided 100% relief.

Now

However, Norfolk farmer Tim Flaxman (ages 53) has claimed to have invented sunglasses that can help prevent the nausea many sufferers experience whilst travelling via plane, boat, car or train. This is great news as not only does this but an end to awful plane journeys for travellers but once you’re on holiday, you are no longer restricted to what you do on holiday. You can book a boat cruise and hire a car to explore without feeling sick, which means your holiday is no longer ruined.

Whilst on the tube Flaxman realised that he could stop himself from feeling sick by covering one eye. It was this revelation that prompted him to develop a pair of sunglasses, where one opaque lens would block vision in one eye.

Understanding the sickness

How do the sunglasses work? Let’s first understand travel sickness. People suffer with travel sickness as there is often a conflict between what you see and what the vestibular system senses. This system helps with a person’s balance and is located within the inner ear. 

So for example let’s take a car journey. Your eyes tell your brain that you are travelling at high speeds but the vestibular system is also telling it that you are sat still. This is very confusing for the brain and prompts the postrema to react. This part of the brain is to blame for being sick.

The sunglasses with one opaque lens puts an end to this process as vision is cut from 3D to 2D and thus reduces movement awareness. Flaxman was very satisfied after testing the product whilst in cars and on planes and boats. Whilst in an interview he said, 

‘These glasses would open up the world to so many people that, even if I don’t make money, that would be a great legacy...’ 

(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/)

These sunglasses are not available to buy as of yet but rumour has it that negotiations with a company based in England have already started with regards to starting the production.

So, soon enough travel sickness suffers will be able to look forward to good value cheap holidays, without worrying about feeling sick!

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