There’s no solid scientific answer to the question of how to cure a hangover. Many sources agree that drinking lots of water is essential. Some consider sleep the best solution. Some recommend drinking lots of juice with vitamin C. A traditional hangover cure used to be drinking coffee, but it’s now believed that just makes you seem more alert and functional without really helping any underlying symptoms. Another hangover cure recommendation: drinking pickle juice. Yikes!
The elusive hangover cure
Yet another hangover cure people suggest? Drink more! (No, that’s really not a hangover cure at all – it only delays the symptoms for a while.) Some sources recommend Alka Seltzer, but tell you to avoid aspirin and ibuprofen, because they’re blood thinners like alcohol and can intensify hangover symptoms. And I’ve heard some really bizarre sounding ideas, like drinking raw egg mixed with fruit juice (I guess it could give your body some good nutrients to fight off the alcohol poisoning, if it doesn’t give you salmonella first).
What are your favorite hangover cures? Or what are the most bizarre or hilarious supposed hangover cures you’ve ever heard of?
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Updated: October 24, 2011
Copyright: October 26, 2011
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Steak and a baked potato with a tall glass of water. Works every time, like a charm. A little nap after that is good too.
If you have a huge hangover this is 3 true natural remedies..
try this… Open jar with picles and drink that vinegary, salty, peppery, dill smeling brine…WORKS like a charm…
1. Have another small drink! 50g.. one shot… it will help….
2. Dont want to drink?
3. Gatorade. Full of electolites. Will help your body…
And last thing… Just dont drink like a pig! LOL…
Beyond hydrate hydrate hydrate…Think greasy & salty.. once the urge to hurl subsides (or a little bit before); a sausage egg n cheese muffin & hash browns from any fast food place always perks me up and helps me get on with my day. Then grab a bottle or two of Vitamin Water “Revive” and drink it over time (dont chug it). Its full of electrolytes and B vitamins
Coconut water. Works better than Gatorade.
Try bacon egg and cheese sandwich and some orange juice. Or definitely Gatorade.
I drink milk as soon as I get home. I think it’s helped, but I haven’t experimented enough with it
Milk helps with the heartburn + it semi solidifies in your stomach so is great if you cant eat after all the alcohol
As said before hydration is the key. I find drinking 1-2 pints of water before going to sleep and making sure another pint is by the bed for the night helps! In the very least this will take the edge off. In the morning eggs on toast. standard.
Eat a banana! Works wonders
A hangover is caused by the dehydration which occurs from drinking too much alcohol, sometimes with follow on symptoms of vomiting or diarrhea. So, I’ve always jusy taken the cure for stomacg flu or the like, that being Pedialyte or whatever off brand which 2 or 3 dollars cheaper. It doesn’t taste amazing, but I’m sure you just ended up in this predicament drinking things like Boilermakers or Porch Crawlers ergo your taste buds all ready dislike you. Let’s face it, children’s electrolytic oral solutions have what your body craves.
bananas and water. before and after you drink. and after clam chowder, sounds gross but it works for me.
DRINK ALOE JUICE. TAKES CARE OF YA, or pedialyte if you have it
Everyone has something different.
What I do…When you get home, drink an 8oz glass of water, have some toast with butter, take acetaminophen (Tylenol), and take a bottle of water to bed with you (so if you wake up in the night… er, morning… drink some more water), and when you wake up, drink more water, take more acetaminophen, and eat something with carbs (like toast). This works every time for my hubby and I, the only hang over I ever had was when I didn’t do this, and my hubby hasn’t had one since we met, I told him my routine after drinking, and he started doing it, too. So for us, this is what works.
Taking Tylenol after drinking wreaks havoc with your liver. You seriously really should not do that. Ibuprofin is much easier on your liver.
Eat a piece or two of bread before going to bed and pound that water! I’ve heard that taking pain killers (especially ones that target the liver) can be counterproductive but taking a b12 vitamin with my first shot also helps. In the morning- an ice cold diet coke and cold boca chicken nuggets!
Can’t believe I haven’t seen Gravol listed yet. Gravol + a multivitamin and water. Lots of water. Coffee if the gravol makes you drowsy.
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Here is my cure.
Of course what everyone said is right about water water water. pedialyte is great, gatorade is good too.
But you absolutely need B Complex, Vit C, and an anti inflammatory such as pamprin or fish oil or even ibuprofen and aspirin will do wonders, and here is why.
Dehydration occurs partially because the oxygen and hydrogen like to be paired with something like in H20. Alcohol is a OH, oxygen and hydrogen. Water being H2O, 2 hydrogens and an oxygen, When the 2 get together the water starts splitting up because there is an extra H in the mix. This not only causes dehydration, but it makes all these unpaired Oxygen molecules run around, called free radicals. Free radicals suck, and do mean things to us as they bounce around looking for a partner, kinda like the obnoxious drunk bouncing into you at a crowded club. All that bumping causes inflammation. Thats why we take anti-oxidants. These pair with the obnoxious single frat boy of a molecule and make it chill out. It just so happens, however, that these anti-oxidants are water soluble, so while you are gleefully “pissing the night away” all the vitamins you need are going down the toilet, literally. Leaving your poor tissues to fend for themselves.
Oh, and you want to eat something so your blood sugar doesnt crash causing you to wake up in the middle of the night.
Sooooo….
Before Bed> 2 pints of water or more. Bcomplex with C. Fish oil and pamprin or some other menstral cramp thing. Go ahead and take it. you wont grow boobs. Water with you to bed (I like alka seltzer too.)
Morning. Repeat. add caffeine.
oh, and your blood sugar will crash by morning. Alka seltzer right in an ice cold coke will be AMAZING like manna from heaven. It seems like it should be gross but its actually quite nice.
I also take an antihistamine to fight off the inflamation and sleep if I have the day to do such a thing… a percocet dont hurt the next day either, if you are so inclined.
Airborne Fizzies in a small glass of water. I swear on it and so does everyone I have given it too. It works everytime. You can get them in any store pharmacy.
My best hangover cure:
Have a caesar or some call it a bloody mary! (2oz vodka, salt and pepper, tabasco, a dill pickle and clamato juice) && a bag of wine gums.. i dont know why, but this always works and a nap on the side