Prescription motion sickness treatment and convenient at-home care

Motion sickness is characterized by feelings of dizziness, nausea and fatigue that occur during significant movement. Symptoms often begin suddenly with a queasy feeling, cold sweats, disorientation and increased salivation during travel. It then can progress to nausea and vomiting. Symptoms usually go away once the body adjusts to the circumstances.

This progression often happens during extended travel. Examples of common experiences include nausea during car rides, travel fatigue after flights, and headaches while in motion on a boat or plane. Motion sickness from video game play and disorientation after amusement park rides is common, too.

Women and children ages 2 to 12 are at highest risk for motion sickness. But it can happen to anybody and affects an estimated 1 in 3 people at some point in their lives.

These factors can also increase the risk of motion sickness:

• Pregnancy
• Taking birth control
• Menstruation
• Parkinson’s disease
• Genetic history of motion sickness

Prescription and over-the-counter motion sickness pills and motion sickness bands work to ease symptoms. These tricks can help lessen and prevent motion sickness symptoms, too.

• Sit in the front seat in a car, the upper deck on a boat or the wing seat on a plane
• Avoid heavy meals or alcohol before travel
• If possible, roll down windows or turn on air vents to get fresh air when feeling dizzy or lightheaded
• Focus your gaze on a stable object within your field of view, like the horizon if on a boat
• Avoid reading a book or looking at a phone

Scopolamine (and its brand version Transderm-Scop) are standard motion sickness patches. A Transderm-Scop or Scopolamine prescription patch can help prevent nausea and vomiting by blocking the chemical acetylcholine from attaching to symptom-causing proteins in the brain.

Start a Dr. B health assessment to get Transderm-Scop or Scopolamine online. A licensed health provider will review your assessment. If they believe a prescription medication is appropriate, they will send it to your chosen pharmacy.

Both conditions can cause dizziness, nausea, vomiting and headache. But here are some key differences:

• Unlike motion sickness, vertigo is characterized by the sensation that your surroundings are spinning in circles.
• Vertigo can also result in symptoms such as hearing loss, tinnitus and balance issues.
• Motion sickness is caused by an activity like a car, boat and plane ride or playing video games. Vertigo is usually a symptom of an underlying health condition like stroke, migraine headache, head injury or inner ear disorder.

Consultation: A virtual medical consultation for motion sickness costs $15, which is lower than most doctor copays. Currently, we don’t submit medical consultation claims to insurance companies. But you can use insurance for any resulting prescription at your pharmacy.

Medication: Dr. B only charges for the medical consultation. When medications are prescribed, we let you choose the most affordable or convenient pharmacy to fill the prescription. Your medication prices will vary depending on your insurance coverage and whether the drug is a brand or generic.