How your smart phone could help your motion sickness in moving vehicles |
How your smart phone could help your motion sickness in moving vehicles
(NEXSTAR) — Do you get dizzy while looking at your phone while riding as a passenger in a car?
That could be a sign of motion sickness, a common, yet complex, condition that can have varying severities of symptoms to go along with it.
Managing the symptoms can involve sitting in certain seats in moving vehicles, hydration, avoiding empty or too full of a stomach, or even avoiding triggering events like amusement parks, large movie theater screens or even just putting your phone down while in a car.
“A lot of people with motion sickness tend not to have a problem when they’re driving themselves, but if they’re a passenger, it’s more likely and the location in the vehicle in can vary,” Dr. Neil Cherian, staff neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic, said. “Things that help to mitigate in terms of that kind of travel, make sure you’re facing forward … things that can also exacerbate it are stress, fatigue, alcohol.”
Though looking at your phone in the car is not the sole trigger, manufacturers have implemented new technology to try and help mitigate the symptoms.
Cherian said that while smartphones........