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Cinetose

Last reviewed: 18 Jan 2026
Last updated: 02 Jan 2025

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • estímulo de movimento para sintomas
  • desconforto epigástrico
  • náuseas
  • cefaleia
  • vômitos
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Other diagnostic factors

  • suor frio
  • xerostomia
  • tontura
  • bocejos e sonolência
  • palidez
  • instabilidade e falta de coordenação
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Risk factors

  • idade infantil
  • sexo feminino
  • ascendência asiática
  • história familiar de cinetose
  • história de enxaqueca
  • vestibulopatia
  • distúrbios visuais
  • tabagismo
  • desorientação espacial e síndrome do desconforto de deslocamento espacial
  • fatores hormonais
  • visão/odores desagradáveis ou odor de vômito
  • estímulos sensoriais de entrada conflitantes (por exemplo, ler no carro, trens pendulares)
  • fatores psicológicos
  • tarefas concomitantes espacialmente carregadas
  • distúrbio neurológico
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Diagnostic tests

1st tests to order

  • diagnóstico clínico
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Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

cinetose antecipada

cinetose não antecipada

ONGOING

suscetibilidade conhecida

Contributors

Authors

Amir Kheradmand, MD

Associate Professor

Department of Neurology, Neuroscience, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR)

John Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore

MD

Disclosures

AK is the author of references cited in this topic.

Qadeer Arshad, PhD

Associate Professor

inAmind Laboratory, College of Life Sciences

University of Leicester

Leicester

UK

Disclosures

QA is the author of references cited in this topic.

Acknowledgements

Dr Amir Kheradmand and Dr Qadeer Arshad would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Kenneth L. Koch and Dr Michael A. Gresty, the previous contributors to this topic.

Disclosures

KLK and MAG are authors of several references cited in this topic.

Peer reviewers

Alan J. Benson, MB, ChB

Visiting Consultant to the Royal Air Force Centre for Aviation Medicine

Royal Air Force Henlow

UK

Disclosures

AJB declares that he has no competing interests.

David Andrew Green, PhD

Lecturer in Human Cardiorespiratory and Aerospace Physiology

Division of Applied Biomedical Research

Department of Physiology

King's College London

London

UK

Disclosures

DAG declares that he has no competing interests.

Michael von Brevern, MD, PhD

Department of Neurology

Park-Klinik Weissensee

Berlin

Germany

Disclosures

MVB declares that he has no competing interests.

Richard Lewis, MD

Associate Professor

Otolaryngology and Neurology

Harvard Medical School

Boston

MA

Disclosures

RL declares that he has no competing interests.

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Key articles

Cha YH, Golding JF, Keshavarz B, et al. Motion sickness diagnostic criteria: consensus document of the Classification Committee of the Bárány Society. J Vestib Res. 2021;31(5):327-44.Full text  Abstract

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Yellow Book 2024: health information for international travel. Section 8: Travel by air, land & sea - motion sickness. May 2023 [internet publication].Full text

Spinks AB, Wasiak J. Scopolamine (hyoscine) for preventing and treating motion sickness. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011;(6):CD002851.Full text  Abstract

Reference articles

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  • Differentials

    • Enxaqueca
    • Intoxicação alimentar
    • Distúrbio vestibular agudo
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  • Guidelines

    • CDC Yellow Book: health information for international travel - motion sickness
    • Motion sickness diagnostic criteria: consensus document of the Classification Committee of the Bárány Society
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