Hangover Cures
From TheAlcopedia
It's all very well and good, going out at night and getting pissed as a fart, but what about the morning after-when you wake up feeling like a baboon has taken a shit in your head and pissed in your mouth? Never fear! Here are some tried and true methods to ease those hangover blues!
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Preventative Measures
Eat lots before you go out
Drinking on an empty stomach leads to disaster, if you start downing your drinks there is nothing between your stomach lining (Where alcohol is absorbed) and the actual alcoholic beverage then the alcohol will get to your bloodstream quicker, and in greater quantities which will lead to you becoming majorly pissed, thus having a bitch of a hangover in the morning.
Before you go out, have a decent meal- preferably something fatty like fish and chips (Always works for me). That way, a lot of the alcohol you consume will be absorbed by the food and gradually released into the bloodstream in the intestines, creating a lesser intoxicating affect, allowing you to hold your alcohol better, and lessening the hangover in the morning.
Drink water
When your body is dehydrated, it goes into shock- as a protective measure the blood in your body is drawn into the head area, which causes a headache and your apendages to sometimes shake.. sound familiar? Yes, it's true. A hangover occurs when you wake up after drinking nothing but alcohol and you're in a state of shock. Alcohol as a chemical changes the way your body chemistry works, causing you to pee more than you need to, so you become dehydrated with the more alcohol you consume (This is also related to Breaking the Seal), the obvious way to combat this is to keep yourself hydrated thoughout your boozing session- you may need to pee more, but at least you won't have such a bad hangover in the morning.
When I'm out on the piss, I aim (aim, not necessarily achieve) to have one alcohol drink, then one glass of water, however if you want to keep your manly facade intact, may I suggest the "Drink MORE Water" method below.
Drink MORE water
This is an emergency proceedure if you have drunk far too much without having any water. Basically, when you come home, aim to drink two litres of water before you go to bed. The downside to this is that you WILL wake up in the night needing the toilet (Or you may just pee yourself, depending on how trashed you are) and when that happens, you need to get up, use the loo, then drink another two litres of water.
This method always works for me, and I always have a nice big bottle of water beside my bed at night.
Damage Control
Did I mention water?
Yes, it's getting old now but if you keep yourself hydrated the morning after, your hangover will clear up quicker. Keep yourself peeing to flush out your system, works a treat
Stop the spin
The first part to a hangover is lying in bed, feeling the world spin. In my opinion this is the worst part of a hangover, because it makes you want to puke. A cool trick I've found to work is when you're lying in bed and the room is spinning, take one of your legs out from under the covers and rest it flat on the floor, while still laying on your bed with the other leg under the covers as normal. 99% of the time this stops the spinning for me.
Big breakfast
Eat lots, when you get up you'll still have trace amounts of alcohol running around your system, and lots of nasty toxins that your liver has created while breaking down the alcohol. Soak all that shit up and poop it out with a nice big fried English breakfast. I don't know why but fatty food always helps.
Of course, a nice big drink of Orange Juice or just plain water with this helps.
Analgesics
"This is the reason why your headache didn't go away: That's actually pronounced analgesic, not anal-gesic. Sir, the pills go in your mouth." -Chris Turk, Scrubs
Headache pills rock, and they can keep you going if you need to go to work or wherever. I find the ones with caffene in do the best work.
Hair of the dog- Hardcore Drinkers
This is the best hangover cure, and the only one that is proven to work. However, it is very bad for your body. Hair of the dog (Or hair of the dog that bit you) basically refers to waking up the morning after and commencing alcohol consumption again to cure the hangover. This does cure the hangover for the duration that you're intoxicated, however the morning after the morning after will be twice as bad.
