My Baby Gets Car Sick!!! Help Please

[Unladylikediva]

Hello YT Family, this is my first post

Yesterday my family had a cookout. Seeing as I can't bear to be without my Ziggy, he came along. The cookout was at my sister's house, which is 30 minutes from mine. Along the way I noticed my baby had bubbles coming from his mouth and his bottom jaw was completely wet! Now I have seen this before when I take him to the vet, but never this drastic. I did some research and come to find out he was carsick/motion sickness. On the way home he was so tuckered out from all the playing he did with my sister's dogs he slept the whole way home, with none of the sickness he exhibited earlier in the day.

Can any of you give me any remedies or solutions to combat this? I'm going to NYC for the Summer and Ziggy is coming I don't want to have my baby in pain along the way! (We are traveling by plane)

Thanks In Advance

[dennabelle]

How old is your baby? Bells has gotten better with age and time and riding with me short distances at first (store, trash dump, etc). Working up to taking kids to school and longer rides. She seems to do better if i dont get over 40mph. Im sure you get a few remedies on here also. Good Luck..

[Mom to Hot Rod]

Hi there. First of all, welcome to YT and congrats on your baby.

There are a couple of thing you can try. 1) I got a snozzer car seat for mine and it help Hot Rod right away, he stopped getting carsick. It was the not being able to focus while you are in motion probelm he was having.

Maggie May would still get carsick but once she discovered she could sit/stand up and look out the window she didn't get carsick any longer-so I am not sure if it was over time or that she finally started looking out the window. Poor baby would get soooo sick! The day we brought her home, she threw up the 45 minute car ride home. and she would get sick on the boat too.

2) there are over the counter things that you can get to help/your vet can give you some ideas as well as dosages.

3) you can try giving ginger snap cookies 1/2 hour before driving.

4) start slowly and take your baby out for short trips (like the driveway and back) several times and increasing the time out to him used to being in the car and the motion. Stop before he gets sick.

Best of luck to you and him!

[Unladylikediva]

Originally Posted by dennabelle

How old is your baby? Bells has gotten better with age and time and riding with me short distances at first (store, trash dump, etc). Working up to taking kids to school and longer rides. She seems to do better if i dont get over 40mph. Im sure you get a few remedies on here also. Good Luck..

Ziggy is 11 weeks old. Thanks

[yorkie mad]

As soon as your baby realises that a car journey = walkies your baby will love it

[Unladylikediva]

Originally Posted by Mom to Hot Rod

Hi there. First of all, welcome to YT and congrats on your baby.

There are a couple of thing you can try. 1) I got a snozzer car seat for mine and it help Hot Rod right away, he stopped getting carsick. It was the not being able to focus while you are in motion probelm he was having.

Maggie May would still get carsick but once she discovered she could sit/stand up and look out the window she didn't get carsick any longer-so I am not sure if it was over time or that she finally started looking out the window. Poor baby would get soooo sick! The day we brought her home, she threw up the 45 minute car ride home. and she would get sick on the boat too.

2) there are over the counter things that you can get to help/your vet can give you some ideas as well as dosages.

3) you can try giving ginger snap cookies 1/2 hour before driving.

4) start slowly and take your baby out for short trips (like the driveway and back) several times and increasing the time out to him used to being in the car and the motion. Stop before he gets sick.

Best of luck to you and him!

Thanks I will definately be looking for the Snozzer Car Seat. In my research I did see something mentioned about the Ginger Snap Cookies. Once again thanks for the help. I just can't imagine my baby being car sick when I travel so much! It's so funny how we are so much alike I used to get car sick too!

[dennabelle]

Yep Ziggy is still so young so you will have to get him use to riding...start with very short distances and work up always have a pad or towel. He will get better.

[Deenie]

Zoe is like that, she wants to go everywhere with us but then she's scared to NOT be in your lap or held which I don't like so much, she really wants to be up high under my chin (NOT SAFE) and I've tried some meds to help her and not feeding her before a ride. But she still gets to feel icky. We've mastered some short trips with no throwing up, and no meds just no food,but long trips NOPE.

I make her little pallets on the seat next to me and pet her while we go pick up the obys from school or something short like that. She pukes if she's in the carrier.
My next big purchase will be a car seat........

[shawnzeppi]

Originally Posted by Deenie

Zoe is like that, she wants to go everywhere with us but then she's scared to NOT be in your lap or held which I don't like so much, she really wants to be up high under my chin (NOT SAFE) and I've tried some meds to help her and not feeding her before a ride. But she still gets to feel icky. We've mastered some short trips with no throwing up, and no meds just no food,but long trips NOPE.

I make her little pallets on the seat next to me and pet her while we go pick up the obys from school or something short like that. She pukes if she's in the carrier.
My next big purchase will be a car seat........

My first Yorkie was so scared of the car, he'd stare out the front and shake the entire time. He used to race up my shoulder and sit between my neck and the headrest, that was apparently where he felt the safest. I did not think this was safe either but he was so persistent I let him do it until he finally got tired.


We do use car seats now, but not on short trips. For short trips we use harnesses and wrap the leash around the headrest mounts a few times. I believe that is fairly safe, as the car seats depend on the same harness to protect them in a crash; the deceleration rate and loaded/patch area are the same on the dog. Nylon leashes are designed with a breaking strength many, many times higher than the dog's weight (especially a little Yorkie), so I am comforatable that such a safety factor would be strong enough to hold with crash deceleration loads.

Also when my guys get sick, which still sometimes (although its very rare now that they are older) happens, we ALWAYS have emergency paper towls, wet ones, and a plastic bag. Good luck, and I agree the issue will likely go away as your Yorkies gets a little older and more used to the ride.

[megansmomma]

Mom to Hotrod gave you some really good advice. When my Doodlebug was between 4 months and a year he was a car barfer. We went to have pictures with Santa 2 Christmas' ago and I thought he would be alright with a car seat but Last Christmas he was great for the ride there and back. He now is the very best car rider short of Pebbles who has always been a great passenger.

I just posted about Rescue Remedy since now I have Bogey that has anxiety with car ride, walks, well anytime we leave the house. I've tried a lot of different behavior controls and they have not worked. So I asked for feedback from members here and will be speaking to my vet this week.

[LilMissy]

I wish that I knew how to cure my Dora's carsickness. She throws up after only 2 mins (I've times it) in my van. And she will continue to throw up every few mins of the trip. She is NOT anxious while in the van (or anywhere for that matter). She's a really adventurous girl. Not sure what to do...I know there is meds, but I don't really want to give her medication every day, just to bring her with me. I'm looking forward to reading tips that are offered on this thread. I will be trying the gingersnaps, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

It sounds to me like Ziggy's car sickness is more related to anxiety. I think in time (with short car trips) you will be able to desensitize him. Good Luck!

[yorkieluvr1]

Romeo gets carsick when we drive long distances. He threw up several times and it took a while to get him to eat after we made a 6 hour drive to D.C. Now I go to the vet before leaving and they give me a pill (I forget what the name is) that stops him from throwing up and when we're driving for so long I make him lay in his crate. He hates it but it's safer for both of us and he doesn't get sick!

[LilMissy]

Originally Posted by yorkieluvr1

Romeo gets carsick when we drive long distances. He threw up several times and it took a while to get him to eat after we made a 6 hour drive to D.C. Now I go to the vet before leaving and they give me a pill (I forget what the name is) that stops him from throwing up and when we're driving for so long I make him lay in his crate. He hates it but it's safer for both of us and he doesn't get sick!

So does Romeo not get sick when he's in a crate while traveling? Because this was the next step that I was going to try. I just purchased a crate for Dora and thought that may help.

[yorkieluvr1]

He did get sick the very first time in the crate but didn't after that. I still got the carsick medicine because even after the drive it would take him at least a day or so to eat again. So even though he wasn't throwing up, I knew his stomach was upset. That's why I get the motion sickness medicine. It made a huge difference. I just looked it up. The pill is called Cerenia. I hope that helps!

[MollysMum54]

The only way for Molly to travel without being sick is to ride on the front seat. I cant feed her before we travel either.
Even a short journey on the back seat will make her poorly. My friends and kids know that they have to go in the back seat if Molly comes along.