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How to Get Rid of Hangovers

November 7th, 2009 by admin
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3. Preventing a Hangover

First things first - NEVER take acetaminophen, ibuprofen, or other painkillers before bed after you've been drinking. This places additional stress on your already stressed liver and can cause it to release even more toxins into your bloodstream. With that out of the way, let’s have a look at some commonly used methods of preventing a hangover.

Hangover Prevention

  • liquorEat – Eat something hearty before or during your drinking session. This slows your alcohol absorption and provide some nutrients.
  • Limit your consumption of congeners – Darker liquors tend to contain more congeners than lighter and clear liquors. Congeners are chemicals produced during the fermentation process and are toxic to us humans.
  • Stick to one type of drink – Don’t mix! If you start off by drinking Vodka, don’t change whisky or you run the risk of getting sick and suffering a bad hangover the next morning.
  • Drink plenty of water – Drink one glass of water between each alcoholic drink to keep yourself hydrated. You’ll pee a lot, but you will feel much better in the long run for doing it. Drink a large glass of water before going to sleep too.
  • Stay up – After you’re done partying, stay up a few hours until the alcohol starts wearing off. This will give you time to re-hydrate, get little real food in your stomach, and ‘expel’ much of the poison you’ve ingested, making your sleep higher quality.
  • Alarm ClockSet your alarm clock – I know, I know… why would you want to get up early?!?! You want to get up early so you can go pee, take a multivitamin, and drink a biiig glass of water (some V8 is good too) – then go back to bed. This will vastly improve your chances of waking up without pain, and you’ll probably not even remember doing it.
Whenever you wake up with a bad hangover, it’s a good idea to take note of what you did the night before and not do it again. Common sense, right?

4. How to Cure a Hangover

So it’s too late for prevention and you’re reading this page through squinted eyes with a pounding headache hoping to find sweet hangover relief. Have no fear, we’ve collected some great hangover remedies here – take your pick and let us know how it works out. Also feel free to leave your own hangover cure using the form at the bottom of the page if it isn’t already here.

Hangover Cures

  • Hair of the dog – Some folks advocate having a small alcoholic beverage soon after waking. While it is true that this will stop the pain – the relief is only temporary. As soon as the alcohol passes the hangover will be back.
  • drinkingRe-hydrate – Start off the morning with a big glass of water, Pedialite or Gatorade.
  • Eat something light – Eat something easy to digest like toast, crackers, or oatmeal. Foods that are touted for their properties as hangover cures are:
    • Menudo
    • Bananas
    • Apples
    • Miso Soup
    • Honey (in tea or on toast)
    • V8
    • Pickles and/or pickle juice (yummmm)
    • Green Tea (Want to make your own green tea? Learn how to make green tea)
    • apples pickles bananas
  • Take a pain-reliever – Read the label carefully first, and make sure all alcohol is out of your system. Some recommended for curing a hangover are:
  • Take a multivitamin
  • Shower, eat light, drink water, and go back to bed
  • Exercise! – Probably the last thing you want to do, but some mild exercise will get your heart and lymphatic system (For more information on lymphatic system, read The guide to the Lymphatic system) pumping, moving out waste products that have built up from the night before. This will increase your metabolism (Tips on how to increase your metabolism), release endorphins (natural pain-killers), and re-oxygenate your blood. Eat some carbs and protein afterwards.
Please share any more hangover cures for other surfing sufferers by using the form below.

5. Additional Hangover Resources

 

(Want some fast cures, see Nine ways to deal with a hangover)

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    1. dom Says:

      Instead of drinking more in the am or smokin a blunt, just take 3 ibuprofen before you go to sleep…it works every single time…I just wish I was sober enough to remember last night

    2. Chrid Says:

      I was watching that show doctors on tv and they said drink pickle juice or vinegar plus of coarse waters goood but the vin. and pickle juice def help i recomend the pickle juice it tatse better it really does work i wouldnt say it got rid of the hangover but it sure the hell made me feel alot better

    3. [...] The hangover is a consequence for people who drink too much. You should know your limits when it comes to guzzling beer and martinis, or else a hangover is bound to appear. Effective as the means for recovery are, no method instantly removes the discomforting condition. So remember people, do hold your alcohol, at least from time to time. For more information regarding this article, read how to get rid of hangovers. [...]

    4. seth Says:

      well drink a shit load of water,pray,and sleep..
      last night i drank and smoked so much i was pased out but i was still talkin to people and they had to drag me 2 da car..dont smoke weed when you already throwing up.

    5. Silly Sally Says:

      Time is the only answer!

    6. Eddy Says:

      Allright had 4 citres colas 2 shot of vodka and 3 long island ice tea fuck got home around 5 am puked up all in my bathroom woke up with a nasty hungover :( well my tips are
      1. Drink 1 beer that help meh with my stomach
      2.hit bugerking and eat a lot
      3.if you feel like throwing up do so I kno its nasty but u will feel so much betta
      4.sleep a lot I perfer sleepin siting down
      5.get well so u can start drink again

    7. katie Says:

      I drank WAY too much last night and woke up this morning feeling extremely nauseous and weak. What I find that works for people like me who have really sensitive stomachs is DO NOT LAY DOWN this will make you even more nauseous when you have to get up or move, just sit up in bed, take deep breaths and sip on lots of water. Have a fan blowing on you as well. If you easily get headaches, take a bayer or 2, ibuprofen for some people upsets their stomach even more! Hope this helps.

    8. jake Says:

      you all need treatment, take b vitamins

    9. kelsey Says:

      Stayed up all night drank WAY to much went to bed at 7 in the morning and wokeup at noon covered in puke and I feel like I’m dying. Its. 5:40pm now and I slept allday, ate nothing and drank no water. If I do I have to puke. This is horrible I hate drinking. Why isn’t there any cures for a hangover?!!!?!?!!!

    10. yvonne Says:

      to get rid of that sick,queezy feeling after a night of drinking all you need to do is slice a lemon sprinkle it with some salt and eat it. this gets rid of that sick feeling. promise this really works!! Lemon & gatorade. try it.

    11. krysta Says:

      im wakin up wit a killer headache and i kno my sis is gonna feel it wen she get up bad, but my tip is 2 smoke big ass blunts all day thats my cure 4 everything and if u cant get it thats ur bad hangover

    12. Manny Says:

      Getting rid of a hangover!!! UMMM.. also depends on HOW much u consumed. Well, what I recommend is this.. GO buy Pedia-lite or gatorade.. Pedi-lite actually has a lot of electrolytes that will help in the dehydration . Eat a Banana .. Depending on your weight might want to eat 2.Last one have a mini shit of vinegar. Fruits as well kick ass.. SO yeah, thats what I do..

    13. frank the tank Says:

      read this it works…. i drank four kegs and 9 bottles of vodka as a warm up then 2 wine coolers to do me dirty and i woke up with a tum tum ache…. u have to call ur best friend and say “hey can u run and get me some cat food for my cat”… when he gets to ur house u start laughin and say “my cat got hit by a car yestrerday”.. lol omfg hahah wtf.. hopefully he gets mad and punches u in the stomache and u throw up all over his/her favorite sneakers and then ur not hung over anymore… ur welcome

    14. chlori Says:

      Since traveling in Brazil I use Engov to kill all hangovers. That’s what they use there for carnaval. Take one tablet with your first drink and one with your last. Then, the next morning, you’ll feel well enough to go running… It’s cheap and quick.

    15. Jonni Says:

      I went out and got really drunk lastnight. Next day cure .. Bloody mary to sustain alcohol level and a big plate of bisquits and gravy. Works everytime. Make sure when your drunk by the time you get home.. to drink tons of water if you remember and try to eat some bread. Another thing.. Go swimming. The chlorine in the pool also sometimes helps.. six shots, about 10 vodka tonics.. i feel great today because i followed my remedies…

    16. Aimeee (: Says:

      Arghh way not to help my hang over.

    17. cdd Says:

      Juice causes an acidic reaction and makes me vomit & feel worse when I am recovering from a hangover. I wouldn’t recommend juice if you have a weak stomach. Lots of sleep, 2 WASA crackers or plain oatmeal, WATER, Caffeine, & constant cold air blowing on me is what helps most~

    18. miss thickums ; Says:

      -ugh ! i’ve been throwinq up && all && i feel horrible still. my tip is,DONT drink.

    19. wang chung Says:

      look. i agree. this page does not help at all. all i’ve gotten from an hour of researching on how to get rid of hangovers is to 1. stay hydrated, 2. eat food and 3. sleep. dude a 3 year old could figure this out. Are these not the three basic functions to live? lol. Yeah sex helps alot too.

      for me, i typically try to stay away as much as i can from sugar. before in the past, i used to chug a whole liter of orange juice. i found that this not only intensified my hangover but also speeded up my heartrate. i understand alcohol is a depressent but speedin up ur heart rate with a load of sugar is just going to hurt you. and dont think just because u slept u can drive. my cousin got a d.u.i 12 hours after he drank and in the next morning too! this is because sleepin doesn’t immediately kill the hangover. this is why u have a hangover when u wake up. because alcohol is probably still processing thru ur system.

      i’m writin this because i drank a whole bottle of patron last night to myself (yeah i was wit other ppl but) i drank this whole bottle n i ended up pukin hella, my stomach and throat feels like it’s swollen on the inside. it’s not cool. dont drnk so much! at the time it feels right to drink more but …. come on! drink moderately. someone almost had to get their stomach pumped last night. someone was pukin out blood. ask urself, do u want to b in these kind of situations? do u want to b the victim in these situations??

    20. jessica Says:

      wow this is so not helping. i just want my hangover to go away already so i can drink more tonightt. ahhh im going to go smoke a blunt. that might help cause advil sure as hell didnt.

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