What is your hangover cure?

[Captain_Ahab 5,000+ posts]

Gotta love working out after a drunken night. I sweat like a PIG! Am always noticeably weaker too.

I can never eat breakfast when I wake up the following morning cause I am not hungry. I just drink tons of water.

 

[teen 10+ year member]

normally a big breakfast and a lot of water along with some advil. im gunna try the pedialyte this weekend though.

 

[HeatSeeker 10+ year member]

Bud and coffee. Food too if its not a puking hangover. Coffee helps protect against cirrhosis a lot.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I drink plenty of water in advance....it takes a lot of water to process alcohol. THink about how ethanol gets broken down...takes lots of water.

 

[Trey803 5,000+ posts]

H2O out the wazoo.....the brain is 78% water. You could see how dehydration can could cause major problems. Alcohol is a diuretic meaning it dehydrates your body.

 

[Liquid Bass 10+ year member]

I have heard this as well.
Alcohol dyhadrates you and thins your blood which is why you feel like shit and have a headache the next day.

Gatorade and pedialite have a lot of electrolytes which help to rehydrate you.

no you get a hangover because its a withdrawal thing. your body wants more alcohol. its just like when you quit smoking you feel like shit.,

 

[Denhsturrr 10+ year member]

lots of gatorade, pedialyte, or water before you go to sleep after drinking

 

[donpisto 5,000+ posts]

To be honest, what your body really needs is sleep. Drink plenty of fluids since the alcohol is sitting in fats. Just drink lots of water, piss it out, and get rest. Pretty much all you can do.

And yeah, alcohol does dehydrate you so that is why you need water. I'm not sure about the gatorade thing. Usually gatorade is used if you are losing salt, that's why people are in sports drink it, to regain that salt. It's actually better to mix gatorade with water.

 

[s Beatz]

Menudo for the win..

 

[bds0688 10+ year member]

Juices worked tremendously for me. Lots of vitamins and water.

 

[SRim23 5,000+ posts]

hangovers are basically your body withdrawing from alcohol/dehydration. drink a beer to get some alcohol in you and keep drinking gatorade or water until you feel better.

or do what i do. stay in bed till the room stops spinning haha

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

Lots of water, a couple of 32oz Nalgene bottles full then sleep to like 2 or later in the afternoon, then get a good breakfast, I feel great after that.

 

[funkyab 10+ year member]

Alcohol is an inhibitor of gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA), itself an inhibitory neurotransmitter in the human brain. This accounts for most of alcohol's intoxicating effects, but it also simultaneously inhibits the release of vasopressin, also known as anti-diuretic hormone, or ADH.
The lack of ADH leads to excessive urination (even when consuming low volumes of liquid, as in hard-liquor shooters), with concomitant loss of electrolytes. Many of the symptoms associated with hangover (headache, fatigue, etc.) are related to dehydration and the associated electrolyte imbalances.

Rehydration and replacement of electrolytes are key, as is time, which is needed to clear toxic metabolites (like lactic acid) and muscle breakdown products (creatine phosphokinase, etc.).

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This is proper advice. And tRdoc knows what he is talking about.

To reduce the painful effects of the hangover (not necessarily the mental effects) before i know i am going to get absolutely wrecked, i will drink a good deal of water and sometimes gatorade (try to avoid extra sugar, especially if drinking). I will usually take a double dose of vitamins, especially B class vitamins. During the drinking session i try to get some water in me between drinks. Right before bed/passing out, i will take another dose of vitamins, not nessarily multi vitamins but more b complex. I will also take a few ibuprofen however this might not be the best advice as it can compound the effects on your liver. Finish everything out with a lot of water.

In the morning i will drink drink and drink water, another dose of vitamins and hope for the best.

HOWEVER, the BEST CURE i have ever had was when working in the field in Indonesia. After facing a day in equatorial heat in some of the most sh!tty conditions imaginable after a hard night of drinking, the med team would hook us up with a saline drip and MAN!!!! after 30 minutes i felt as good as gold!!!

 

[MmatsDude 10+ year member]

chorizo and eggs with a corona or two...

LOL true story.

 

[donpisto 5,000+ posts]

Menudo for the win..

Menudo...no mames guey. But I have heard it does help. Gotta wake up in the middle of the night and drink a Tecate or somethin and go back to sleep, then be fine //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif