HANGOVER PREVENTION AND REMEDIES
filed in HEALTH, LIFE on Oct.17, 2008
Before Drinking:
One easy way to feel less the effects of alcohol is to eat a 2 small or one medium bag of potato chips an hour or so before drinking alcohol.
An alternate method is to eat a sandwich (possibly baguette or ciabatta) made with lots of salami and butter (yes, I do realize the taste would be awful, but hey it helps; at the max you can eat one salami sandwich and one with just butter). This way the bread/potato chips will absorb some of the alcohol before it has the chance to get absorbed into your blood stream.
A good way to prevent getting wasted right away is to always drink the same thing, don’t mix alcohols, and if you order/make cocktails make sure to at least drink the same kind. Different alcohols consumed in the same time lapse will cause weariness quicker, splitting headaches and cause major hangovers, and, if you are a woman taking oral contraceptives, and you took your pill 4 hours earlier you are no longer protected (if you regurgitate that is, so be careful with that too).
Another remedy, used primarily by Native Americans was to eat raw almonds before drinking any alcoholic beverage to reduce the chance of suffering from any hangover.
Peanut Butter is also thought to be of somewhat remedy.
Remember to try to have a sports drink (like Gatorade) which will replenish the minerals that the kidneys excreted during your drinking. If you regurgitate due to excessive drinking, let it all out of your system and then have a sports drink to give you back some minerals.
If you had a long night of drinking, water (about 3 glass fulls should be enough) will help rehydrate you. Drinking makes you lose a lot of fluids, going to bed dehydrated will just leave the alcohol in your system at it’s concentrated levels and will cause you to feel their effects later on.
Remember to not take painkillers such as aspirin, ibrofen and the like. If taken in high quantities or on a continuous basis they’ll start to cause problems to your kidneys (such as kidney failure).
After Hangover: Homemade remedies:
- Lemon: Pour some lemon juice (of 1 lemon) to a cup of black coffee and drink it, no sugar, no milk.
- Chicken soup – just as it works with colds, it can also help rid you of your hangover.
- Honey: take about 2 table spoon fulls every 30 minutes since you wake up till you start feeling better.
- Apples: Eat some as soon as you wake up, it will somewhat help you feel better.
- Lastly, and probably most effective is to make a banana and honey milkshake. Take 3 bananas, pour in some milk and honey, blend it all till it’s all nice and smooth and gulp it down, it will help sooth and settle your stomach, calming your nerves and ultimately relieving you of your splitting headache due to a major hangover.
Remember it’s much easier to prevent than to cure, drink responsibly and make sure not to drive if you’ve had to drink, even if you think you would be able to, better off safe than sorry. If you don’t care about your well being nor that of those around you then just remember that whatever damage you cause you will have to pay out of your own pocket.
Update : the original was from HealthMad, check it out his website and learn more interesting stuffs about health.
October 17th, 2008 on 7:20 am
Great advice. I knew about the bread, absorbing the alcohol but I never knew about the chips. And, salami and butter sounds pretty good to me. Good tip on the apples too I never would have even thought that would work. Thanks.
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