DailyDirt: Hangovers -- Ain't Nobody Got Time For That

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Fri, May 8th 2015 5:00pm — Michael Ho

Hangovers are pretty common for alcohol drinkers, but oddly, medical science doesn't really have an exact cause for the phenomenon. Sure, there's a bit of dehydration and trace amounts of toxic compounds from some alcoholic spirits, but brain inflammation from high alcohol levels seems to be just something that happens (pending further study). There have been some studies on hangovers, but no reliable cure just yet. If you want to try a few things that might work, check out some of the links below.

The Hangover Club offers a service to deliver you a certified registered nurse and a drip bag that goes right into your bloodstream -- that's not at all guaranteed to cure a hangover or act as any kind of treatment for a disease. However, if you're otherwise healthy, it won't hurt (too much), and there could be some placebo effects mixed with some actual pain/nausea medications to relieve hangover symptoms. [url]
A "drunken headache cure" written on sheets of papyrus in Greek has been translated. The treatment involves wearing a kind of wreath around your neck made up of twigs from a particular shrub. Yup. That's probably 100% effective for a hangover. [url]
Try preventing a hangover by just not drinking as much, and drinking more slowly and eating some food with your drinks. Duh. One drink per hour. And liquor before beer? Nope. [url]

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Filed Under: alcohol, dehydration, drunken headache cure, hangover, health, medicine, myths, nausea, pain medication, placebo effects
Companies: hangover club

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Anonymous Coward, 9 May 2015 @ 7:41am

Drink responsibly. That's the slogan.
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slap (profile), 9 May 2015 @ 12:35pm

Hydrate before and after drinking.
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FarmerBob, 9 May 2015 @ 1:44pm

1-2 (depending on the enormity of the event) medium (case size bought from Costco) sized bottles of Gatoraid G2 after the event and when I wake up the next morning it's as if I never went out or in or however I imbibed. Matter if fact I usually feel better when I wake up than I do when I don't drink prior to. I've been at this for a long time.
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Anonymous Coward, 11 May 2015 @ 5:05am

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Just like SHIELD did.
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John Fenderson (profile), 11 May 2015 @ 8:10am

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It sounds like you're usually dehydrated. BTW, there's nothing magical about Gatoraid: it's just flavored water with added salt ("electrolytes" in this context is just a ten dollar word for "salts"). The benefits you're getting are probably entirely from the water.

BTW, you can make a drink that is medically identical to Gatorade using Kool-Aid (or similar) and adding a little bit of salt. Recipes abound on the internet.
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