• Question: When we take medicine - for example travel sickness tablets - and it doesn't work, is that because of our genetics or the medicine itself?

    Asked by Neil to Kevin, Liz, Beccy on 21 Jun 2017.
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      anon answered on 21 Jun 2017:

      As a sufferer, I would love to know.

      It certainly seems like there is a genetic component https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4383869/ to the condition itself.

    • Photo: Liz Buckingham-Jeffery

      Liz Buckingham-Jeffery answered on 22 Jun 2017:

      Interesting question! I don’t know about travel sickness in particular. But sometimes it feels like medicines aren’t working because we take the wrong medicines for the job.

      For example, antibiotic resistance is becoming more of a problem because people take antibiotics when they have no need to, like when they have the flu.

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