hangover cures!!

Richelieu wrote:

They must exist!!!

They don't. I've tried. Prevention is the best cure! Although, I swear by red bull at the end of a night out, seriously. I used to get mad headaches and sick stomach every morning-after. But then one night I'd a vodka redbull at 2.20am and I was right as rain the next morning. And every time I've tried it since it has worked a treat. Thing is, most times I get too drunk to remember my deadly cure.. so it all goes to waste

edit - my missus gets those Lifeline things from the chemist. Basically take two within an hour of your first pint and you're raight as rain the next day!

Hangover cures work. But only if you're not throwing gallons of alcohol on top of them.

Things like Milk to line the stomach, water to rehydrate you, will all work to a certain degree, but only if you've had four pints or so. No amount of milk will line your stomach against 8 pints of guinness, 2 aftershocks and a double whiskey and coke. If you drink a pint of water after 10 pints, the diuretic affect of the alcohol will negate any benefit in the morning. All it'll do is force you out the bed to piss it out of you.

Moderation is the best hangover prevention. Now, if only I could practice that.

muckwarrior wrote:

There was a study done recently on all alleged hangover cures and none were found to work!

New scientist magazine have had 2 they said definitely worked, they did placebo tests and everything.

Best cure is prevention, drink good alcohol to begin with, I recommend skyy vodka and lots of soda water with real lime juice.

When it is really hard to stomach water/milk/anything liquid because you are too giggy to drink it, but you have to re-hydrate yourself here is a magic drinks combo.

soda water
lime cordial
blackcurrent cordial

2 anadin.

voila!!! you are human again until lunchtime...............

It's downhill from there I'm afraid.

I've been researching this a lot in my life personally.

My conclusions are currently:

1) Hangovers are relative to how healthy you are in the first place; i.e. if you're burned out and malnourished, hangovers can be vicious, but if you're very fit and eat organic food all the time, they are much more managable.

2) The extent to which hangovers affects you seems to change as you grow up (or maybe I was just superfit as a teenager..?)

3) Hangovers are not created equal; not even nearly, and depend on your personal reaction to what you drink, and to some extent, the environment you're in..

So here are my Top Tips for Hangover Mitigation:

- Alcohol dehydrates your cells. If you just drink water afterwards, this helps, though arguably not as or as quickly much as drinking an isotonic sports drink, with the right blend of electrolytes / sugars / salts to speed up your ability to rehydrate.

- Alcohol is acidic. Drinks like Get up and go usually alkalize your stomach, that accelerates your body's process of restoring a decent ph level.

- Alcohol seems to reduce energy levels. If you have loads of energy it's not so difficult to deal with (which can be from having a really good metabolism). This means, if you exercise more, are holidaying in the countryside with good oxygen / natural energy and are in good health anyway, hangovers are milder. The rest of how you live plays one of the biggest part in how you feel after when you've been drinking.

- Different alchohols have different ingredients, some of which you may be alergic to, thus exacerbate the hangover effect. Many people I know say alco-pops lead to headaches in 10 minutes. My personal experience is that cheap alcohol often just makes me tired, lethargic, sluggish; I have a different reaction to beer than cider (cider makes me feel a little agressive, beer tired). My favourite is really good wine (costing €25 / bottle in off licence); that usually gets me high as well as drunk, and the hungover feeling is often slightly blissful too.

- My experience is possibly the best remedy for being hungover or under the weather generally is 4 + shots of wheatgrass. This isn't nice to drink at the time, but half an hour later I feel alive again

- Walks by the sea are good / in the country are good.

- Exercise is good

- Alcoholic activities, like eating kebabs and chips, probably will amplifer the hangover rather than lessen it. I'm sure it's possible to get coffee hangovers, and fastfood hangovers

- It's smart to calibrate your own recovery threshholds; i.e. if you have an important meeting, and your 25 years old and after going on a serious session, it takes 2 days to sharpen up, don't go on any serious sessions less than 2 days before the meeting

And my favourite technique for hangover mitigation:

(Aside than more sleep)

- Scoring some gorgeous female

PORNAPSTER wrote:

Drink lots of water before you go to bed.

Bingo, ive used that during the sparse occasions of drunkeness on my part and its worked everytime.

the answer is simple. 2 little tablets called 'lifeline' you can get em in most chemists. They are worth every penny. You take 2 with your first drink and then have a glass of water before bed and you be grand. next day have a bottle of fizzy orange lucozade sport and a bag of brown hula hoops always works!!
if your ever feelin really awful or kno wyou will when you get home take 2 paracetamol before bed set an alarm for 8am and take 2 more then by th etime you oproperly wake up you feel grand

oh, and to save a hang over never ever mix orange bacardi breezer with other drinks. I can mix all other drinks but whatevers in that orange breezer is evil

Plenty of water through out the night takes the blow out of the hangover.
I always go for a huge Mc Donnalds with a milkshake the next day, it doesnt cure it but certainly helps alot.