Lunch Break: Car Sik Bib
by LauraLoo
The popular television series Shark Tank recently featured the innovator of the Car Sik Bib. (Too bad the “sharks” didn’t help finance his idea.)
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If you have any car-sick kids and this bib eventually rolled out to your market, would you buy them? Also, do you see any liability issues such as children choking by accident?
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Jul.14, 2011 12:00 pm |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
We use a rubbery/plastic bib for our toddler because she gets carsick it needs to be emptied often though and rinsed/washed. I love that it catches a ton of vomit. Wish they’d make car sik bibs reusable I’d buy it.
Okay, but with those slightly older, wouldn’t this be saying: “You’re about to get sick now!”? :)
My two (almost three) year old gets car sick quite often, I might consider something like this. I would worry about the plastic on this though for younger kids, seems like it might be a suffocating hazard.
As the mother of 3 kids who get very car sick I have found that making sure my child has had a good meal with plenty of protein, not sugar or startches has helped prevent car sickness. Also a cheap pair of sunglasses as well as a hat with a brim to help cover the eyes a bit more from the sun. I would also keep a sugary drink in the car (capri sun, etc.) for emergencies because this would bring down the nausea feeling pretty quickly. If we were in between meal times and were out for the day, I would also be prepared to stop for a quick bite to eat or have extra sandwhiches in a cooler. For shorter trips such as a nearby park, I would have apples or another quick to eat fruit. Also, leaving car windows open while the car is parked has helped, sometimes it’s not the motion of the car but the heat in the car that causes my kid to be sick (it takes a car A/C a lot longer to cool off the vehicle espcially in a mini-van, even with dual air). Long road trips do require dramamine, however. I hope some of these suggestions help other parents.