Hangover cures

I've always found the good old banana milk shake to be a good one
to prevent that second siting of last nights dinner.

Plenty of guinness and loud Iron Maiden is the perfect cure for a hangover

Don't become sober - keep drinking😀

Prevention,my drinking friends,prevention!
When drunk,drink 25cl to half a liter of water,or fruitjuice,before you go to bed.Maybe eat a piece of dry bread as well.Garantueed no hangover in the morning.Take it from an experienced man 😀

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Originally posted by eyeqpc
Plenty of guinness and loud Iron Maiden is the perfect cure for a hangover

There is no cure for alcohol poisoning. Believe me. I've tried everything.

Hair of the dog can work (drinking alcohol to get rid of the hang-over), but basically you are just extending the execution. It's not very healthy either.

What you can do is try to regulate the amount of alcohol that gets absorbed by your body over an amount of time.
What the KGB used to do was eat a pack of butter before binge drinking. This absorbs lots of the alcohol and by the time it's gonna get absorbed, it's too late and already on its way out.

A hang-over consists of two main ingredients:
1. Feeling ill: That's alcohol poisoning. Nothing you can do will get rid of that. Getting drunk again will only make you not feel the nausia.

2. The headache: This is due to vitamin C deficiency and dehydration.
Organge juice before you go to bed and loads of water can help prevent the worst of the headache, but if you've drunk enough, you're gonna feel ill no matter what.

The body takes 1.5 hours to break down 1 measure of booze (1 small glass of beer, a glass of wine or a shot of whiskey).
What you can do is work out how many hours it will take to break down all the alcohol from the time you start drinking to the time you'll wake up.

So, say you start drinking at 6 in the evening and you know you're waking up at 8 in the morning. That's 14 hours.
This means you can drink 9 measures of alcohol and be sure it's out your system in the morning.
Of course, alcohol disrupts the sleeping pattern and even though you won't have a hang-over you may still feel tired and unrested.

Eating lots of fat and carbohydrates (big pasta dishes etc.) means you can generally add 2 or 3 measures of alcohol to your binge without too much risk of a hang-over.
Once you're drunk it's better to eat pasta, rice, chips or lots of bread than kebab. Meat (although red meat does contain vitamins B6 and B12...which in the long run protect you from korsakov's) doesn't help to absorb any of the alcohol; it doesn't slow down the absorbtion process and means your body is still going to absorb every last drop.

Obviously puking after every 3rd drink will stop a hangover as well. But it's not good for your stomach or the lining in your throat.

Originally posted by shavixmir

What the KGB used to do was eat a pack of butter before binge drinking. This absorbs lots of the alcohol and by the time it's gonna get absorbed, it's too late and already on its way out.

The best I have ever found is to go for a run or swimming and sweat it out - but its not much fun while you are doing it

As I mentioned in the 'Irn bru' thread, a bottle of Irn-bru and a roll with a slab of Lorne sausage and lots of tomato sauce works for me, but my boss told me of one method that IMHO works, though it does need a bit of preparation.

It all hinges on the fact that dehydration is a major part of a hangover. Drinking a pint of water before you hit the hay reduces the hangover effect, but how many times have you staggered through the door and lurched straight to bed, pausing only to relieve yourself on the cat?

The key is, before you go out, pour yourself a pint glass of water and take it to your bedroom. Don't put it next to your bed - nonono, you'll just forget it's there when you get home refreshed as a newt. You must pull back your duvet, put a chair on your mattress, and put the pint glass on the chair. Now, the only way you can get into bed when you arrive home is by removing the pint glass from the chair - and hopefully your night's convivial imbibation should trigger a pavlovian reaction. Full pint glass in hand - drink fluid in glass!!

So, freshly re-hydrated, you can go to bed safe in the knowledge that your hangover will be one pint of water less than it would have otherwise been. Admittedly, experience has taught me that there's a high risk of wetting the bed, but this is - surely - a small price to pay for a clear head in the morning?

Originally posted by dfm65
i guess they must have had some really fat agents...

i'm kind of lucky in that no matter how plastered i get, i don't get a hangover. never had one in my life, although i've deserved lots...

Originally posted by Edwardipov
Admittedly, experience has taught me that there's a high risk of wetting the bed, but this is - surely - a small price to pay for a clear head in the morning?