Based on their recent experiments, scientists were able to finally discover the cure to seasickness. People could soon get rid of nausea by the means of a device electrically stimulating their brain.
Researchers at the Imperial College London have conducted an experiment to 20 volunteers aiming to find an effective method to cure their motion and sea sickness. The study's findings were published at the beginning of September in the journal of Neurology.
The first stage of the research consisted in analyzing the medical definition of motion sickness with the help of neurology experts. Nausea appears when the brain receives different inputs from the ears and eyes, according to scientific explanations. Scientists agree that this is the main factor of motion sickness, even though there may be other valid explanations to this affection.
The current treatments of seasickness presuppose the administration of special drugs. However, these are often having side effects and are accompanied by drowsiness. People who don't travel very often may neglect this side effect, but for those individuals who have to work it is not convenient to take such medicines.
Dr. Qadeer Arshad, a world expert in motion sickness and the leader of the study, elaborated a new cure based on a device that delivers an electrical stimulation of the brain. According to him, applying electrical stimuli to the scalp could balance the inputs in the brain and therefore, prevent dizziness and nausea.
Their working hypothesis has been confirmed during tests by the improvements experienced by the volunteers taking part in the study. The 20 volunteers were seated on a rotating chair while they received a mild electrical current to the scalp. The study participants have declared at the end of the tests that as the chair twisted they did not feel dizzy.
Dr. Arshad has plans to conduct more similar experiments in order to ensure that his theory is indeed correct. He believes that the treatment will be completed within a five to ten-year interval. He declared that he plans to make the new electrical device so popular that anyone could purchase it from any drug store.
According to the researcher, smartphone technology may also be integrated to help people get rid of motion sickness. By simply accessing a smartphone app, the electrical stimuli might someday be delivered through earphones. According to the author of the study, there are no side effects to this new treatment.
