IF SKIING leaves you feeling a bit green around the gills and wishing you’d
never left the comfort of the chalet, then you may be suffering from ski
sickness.
“It’s basically a form of motion sickness,” says Rudolf Haeusler, an ear
surgeon at the University of Berne in Switzerland. Like seasickness it can leave
you feeling dizzy and nauseous, and can even make you vomit.
Haeusler attributes the effect to conflicting sensory stimuli that are
characteristic of skiing. The unusual slaloming motion, for example, produces
rhythms similar to those experienced on a rocking boat. People tend to turn
every two…
