How to keep kids well when travelling by car

FOR many families this summer, the excitement of a holiday trip can be punctured by the words ‘I’m sick’ coming from the back seat of the car.

Car sickness is a type of motion sickness, it’s most common in young children aged two to 12 and it affects 10%-15% of them regularly.

Dr Martin Daly, a GP in Ballygar, Co Galway, explains that our vestibular system (inner ear) senses motion and tells the body about its position relative to the world around it. Our visual system augments the vestibular one.