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| Rini feeling a little carsick but ok! |
Most whippets have a problem with carsickness until around the age of 2 or 3, but this is easily solved by giving a tablet or two of meclizine (Dramamine 2) at least an hour before getting in the car. This helps nausea and vomiting, and most whippets will get over their carsickness or fear of cars if they aren't getting sick every time they get in the car. Rini ALWAYS takes her meclizine and NEVER gets sick. I tried one trip without, and spent the next day washing blankets and towels. Yuck.
However. Meclizine is a "Class B" drug for pregnancy, and has been shown to cause cleft palates in lab rats at high dosage. You can bet your boots I'm not giving my Reeners any of that. So we toughed it out ... the road from SC to VA is not incredibly smooth, and not incredibly straight. She swayed and she drooled, she moved from the back to the front of the car, she tried riding in the seat next to me (no good), right behind my seat (nope) and the very back (ok for a while, but not for the whole trip). Eventually she settled down about halfway back, and slept. All the way to Virginia, and no carsickness! YAY!!
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