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We're typing very, very quietly. Many of you may have rung in the New Year in a wholesome, healthy fashion. You raised tankards of kombucha tea while hot-yoga posing in the form of a celestial stag and then rose at dawn to hike to the top of the nearest promontory and bask in nature and celestial majesty. That's wonderful. Good for you. The rest of us crammed as much onion dip, pigs-in-a-blanket and stale Christmas candy as physically possible into our gaping maws, and then spilled bottom-shelf booze, beer and cheap Champagne in there so it wouldn't feel lonely. Today huuuuurrrrts, and the only surefire cure would be to journey back in time to stop the damage before it began. Take ibuprofen if there are no signs of nausea or upper abdominal pain - after you have drunk a fair amount of water. Per our friends at CNN Health, taking an acetaminophen-based medicine in conjunction with alcohol can cause liver damage, while taking aspirin in conjunction with heavy daily alcohol use has bleeding risks. Coffee can help relieve the side effect of sleep deprivation that often accompanies a long night of revelry, but it doesn't tackle the main problem. Your best bet is to eat something light as soon as you can, drink some water (or Gatorade, Pedialyte or coconut water to help replenish some electrolytes) and slip back under the covers. That fuels your body to repair and re-energize itself. Unfortunately, many popular food cures, scientifically speaking, seem to just be window dressing for the actual problem: the dehydration. But if they distract you from your state of misery, who are we to stand in the way? We asked our readers how they cope after an evening of excess. Some revelers advise crawling into a carb and comfort cave:
There are those who hatch their recovery plans over eggs:
Others take a more virtuous path to healing:
Many turn to the burn of spicy food to sweat out what ails them (though experts doubt the veracity of that, hey - whatever works):
Plenty turn and face that nipping dog again, armed with some liquid courage:
It's all business, no brunching or boozing for those who just wish to be done with it:
And there's always another route:
And we raise a cup of tea in our feeble, trembling hands to The Lead producer Ed Meagher for hipping us to this passage from Kingsley Amis's 1954 comic novel "Lucky Jim":
Cheers! Got a surefire hangover cure? We're all ears in the comments below. Previously: 10 hangover remedies: What works? |
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Huh... people should go here and fill out a survey. http://curecrowd.com/ailments/hangover then we can know for sure! As of now milk thistle is the winner.
People should just go to http://curecrowd.com/ailments/hangover and enter what works for a hangover we can get to the bottom of this. Haha. So far it looks like milk thistle the winner!
A bit gross but... The few times I've had a hangover I took a hot shower, popped a b-vitamin and then drank as much hot water with lemon as I could manage and went to bed. Once I woke up to use the restroom, I'd take a couple swigs of Milk of Magnesia and more water then back to bed. Generaly an hour or so later the magnesia would wake you up with an Urgent nature's call and you'd swear everything you ever ate or drank just came back to haunt you but... Clean up and head back to bed and I was right as rain when I woke up in the afternoon.
I use to drink and party frequently until I had my twin daughters 2 years ago. I tried everything that is known to cure a hangover. The only thing that worked for me is it have a glass of water or more with ever drink. It sucks that you have to pee more but it definitely works.
Someone said a turkish bath? Must be living a rough life..
i was told to use pedialite when you can finally hold something on your stomach. i tried it, no flavor kind, in about 30 minutes after drinking a qt. of pedialite, i was as fine as before i got drunk. no nausea, no headache. in fact, had i not had to go to work, i might have gone out & partied some more.
Opuntia and silymarin capsules before you imbibe. Water and ibuprofen before you sleep. Done.
Water. If it's just a headache, at least a quart over about 20 minutes. As well as helping with the dehydration the article mentioned, it gently cleanses the digestive tract, rinsing as it goes down. If you can't hold water down, wait about 5 minutes then slowly drink another 8 ounce glass of water. As long as you can't hold it down, repeat every five to ten minutes. At some point you will have cleaned out your gut and the water will stay down. Then drink another glass of water every 10 minutes or so. You'll feel a lot better in an hour or two. If you've been really sick, you may want to try something like Gatorade or Powerade but only AFTER you've been able to hold the water down for at least an hour.
Orange juice
ALKA SELTZER BEFORE YOU GO TO BED!! I promise it works!! couple extra ibuprofen won't hurt either..
Bierleichen
Don't want a hangover, don't get drunk. I had very little last night...BUT on a night I have drank to that point, lots of water, powerade, and pain killer...plus actual sleep. Works every time.
Drink lots of water before you go to bed, with a side of ibuprofen. The next morning, eat toast with honey on it, some fruit, and tea. Basically, you just got done putting a delicious and wonderful poison in your body, so treat your body right with healthy food and fluids.
paracetamol before sleeping
The #1 best cure for a hangover is to not drink. Most people don't know that alcohol can destroy your entire body except hearing. Yes, it is a poison and yes, the more you drink, the more damage you can't see is being done except when your vision, teeth, skin, hair, taste, smell, and touch and mental function are compromised. As widely accepted as drinking is, it's the excesses that will get you every time. It's easy to forget a hangover and turn around and get drunk again only to have another hangover until one day you might find it's easier to just drink all day long. Wake and bake is not just for pot heads. Oh yeah, one more thing alcohol destroys – relationships.