Cinetosi e Mal di Spazio

Abstract Motion sickness is a malaise caused by particular condition of body movement in relation to the environment. This movement can be real or apparent. The triggering factors of motion sickness are body movements and accelerations. The incidence of the disease varies in relation to the environment and in relation to the sex of the subject; seasick has an incidence of 62% with a ratio women/man of 5:3. The motion sickness symptoms can be both psychic and neurovegetative. In the first case they cause the mental psychic syndrome, and in the second one the nausea vomiting syndrome. The two syndromes often can occur at the same time. Therapy consist of anticholinergic antidopaminergic antihistamine antiserotoninergici and in specific counseling for all patients expose to external impulses.