hangover help?

Question

how do you cure a hangover?

Answer 1

The chemical imbalance in your body caused by overdrinking needs to resolve itself slowly. Therefore, drinking one beer s-l-o-w-l-y when you first wake up hydrates your body while providing enough alcohol for your system to slowly reintegrate.

Actually, the worst thing to do when dealing with a hangover is drink water because it changes your body chemistry too quickly! You will just hurl it back up. I learned the beer tip from my friend who is a longtime alcoholic (albeit a functional one!)

Answer 2

Hangover Cures & Prevention
Why do hangovers occur?
Alcohol is a diuretic, which means it pushes fluids out of the body. Loss of fluid is accompanied by loss of essential salts like potassium and magnesium. Blood-sugar levels are also disrupted and toxins from the intake of alcohol can remain in the body for several hours after drinking has finished. The general loss of essential salts and dehydration leads to the hangover.

Minimizing the hangover
The type of alcohol you drink does make a difference. The darker sweeter drinks have more congeners (complex organic molecules of which methanol is one). Therefore brandy, sherry, red wine and whiskey will give you more of a hangover than white wine and vodka. Cheap spirits poorly refined are more likely to give you a hangover.

Hair of the dog.
Drinking more alcohol actually does work to an extent. This is because ethanol in alcoholic drinks blocks the breakdown of methanol to formaldehyde and formic acid. It is however a very bad way of dealing with hangovers because of the strain it puts on the liver and stomach. It also puts off the hangover to a later time which, when it does arrive, can feel even worse. The Prairie Oyster is just such a "cure", (brandy, angostura bitters, worcestershire sauce and raw egg).

The None-Alcohol Hangover Mix
1 part olive oil, 1 raw egg yolk, salt and pepper, 1-2 tablespoons of tomato ketchup, a dash of Tabasco and worcestershire sauce and some lemon juice (or vinegar).

The egg yolk contains N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC), an amino acid that helps to drive out the toxins acquired from booze and tobacco smoke. Tomato ketchup provides bioflavonoids which are an excellent source of antioxidants to help boost the immune system. If you absolutely can't cope without a hair of the dog, mix this with a splash of Vodka. Vodka contains fewer additives than other alcoholic drinks.

Other Hangover Recommendations


Drink lots of water, at least twice the amount of water to alcohol.

Take some vitamin C.

If you can stomach it, bananas help to replenish many essential salts.

Take some sugar; alcohol lowers your blood sugar levels.

Take some pain relief tablets. Avoid aspirin as the alcohol has probably already made your stomach lining rather sensitive.

Sleep. A few hours of it can work miracles. Don't drive until you have fully recovered. Just because you've slept after a drinking session doesn't mean you're sober. Nothing can speed alcohol out of the body so don't kid yourself that a strong coffee will do it (it's more likely just to help replenish a little fluid).

Answer 3

Unfortunately time is the best cure for a hangover. You should also try fluids to combat the dehydration you have inflicted on yourself. Some say B- vitamins, and caffeine for the headache and make sure you eat something. Then there are those who swear by a Bloody Mary - but I am betting if you cure a drinking woe by drinking there is a problem.
Sleep also will help - after over serving yourself after the initial "drunk sleep" your body does not rest as it should because it is burning off the alcohol and the sugar it produced so you will feel crummy and exhausted even though you think you have slept.

Best advice is to try not to overindulge - and yes, I know that is easier said than done sometimes.

Answer 4

Just don't drink orange juice, if you'd been drinking any mixers containing orange juice. I learned that one the hard way, that citrus comes right back up!

I'm experiencing a slight hangover today. Got a little bit toasted last night. I definitely recommend Malibu Mango to anyone wanting something easy to drink! =]

Yummy.

Answer 5

you should really try vegetable soup, its the best with loads of bread so it soaks up the alcohal and drink plenty of water, also to avoid hangover you shoul dtake too headache tablets before you start drinking, the lessings the affects of a hangover the next day

Answer 6

The best thing that you can do for a hangover is to sleep it off!

Answer 7

Drink Water, a lot,

- eat bread.
- take a long walk, makes you hart work.


Drinking is the most important if you have a hangover.

Hangover is nothing more then the dehydration of the membrane of the brain, this gives you a headache.
Alcohol dry's out the body, water hydrates the membrane again and then you feel better.

Maybe you stomach will still be upset, to resolve this eat bread (eat light)!

Or drink again more alcohol!

J. and D.

Answer 8

your dehydrated , drink water.
according to a book i am reading 90%of hangovers is just dehydration . for future refrence I drink one glass of water to every three drinks while I am out partying , i do not get hangovers .
ps hair of the dog , drink another beer as well

Answer 9

The one and only cure that has worked for me and everyone I know, EVERY time, is to eat an apple. I know, it sounds wierd, but we always feel back to normal within an hour of eating an apple.

Answer 10

you will need tomato juice, A RAW EGG, And 2 tablespoons of tabasco sauce, Put Tomato juice, in a glass, Break Egg put the yolk in the juice , put in tabasco sauce, Stir a little and Drink, till its all gone, Now take 2 bufferin, And start your day