Hangover Cures
 

The question every college student wants to know on a sunday morning... What can I do to get rid of my hangover?

Lots of water - BEFORE going to bed.

Yes, hydration, but don't forget electrolytes and other minerals that you've lost.

Intoxication is just a simple form of poisoning; you need to assist your liver and kidneys with their job of filtering out the toxin. Fluids are primary, but you need to balance and replenish what the fluids are also taking out. Got some B-12 and a diluted sport drink?

Best solution I've found is to not drink in the first place...........

A russian friend of mine told me that eating lots of bread while you are drinking will reduce to eliminate a hangover. He also says that lots of pizza at the same time could do an ok job if bread isn't available.
I don't drink much, and certainly not to the point of being intoxicated. I have never even drank enough to get a hangover, so I can't say if it worked for myself...

First drink the right drinks. Good vodka and rum will lesson the hangover you get, its more pure. The cheap college gut rot will make it far worse. Sweet drinks are deadly.

Drink a ton of water before going to bed, and as you wake up through the night to pee keep drinking a ton of water. Sport drinks work well to.

I found the best way to get rid of one fast in the morning is hard labor on a hot day; your miserable for a few hours than you feel great after you sweat it out.

Was never a problem for me in college - I just smoked pot, and laughed at the drunks. :D

Mater juice works for me. I also drink about a gallon of water during the day. :D

Lots of water. Vegetable juice to replenish salt and vitamins in the morning, followed by hard physical activity to increase sweating and accelerate metabolism. Yogurt for breakfast also helps with GI symptoms and provides a quick shot of carbs to support the hard physical activity.

I probably have a little too much experience in this area.

Sunday Morning?


Try Saturday Morning too!



For me, as the night winds down, I start drinking water and gatorade. Start munching on some bread too. Only had one hangover in 3.5 years of college... :D

A trip to detox will take care of the hangover, maybe jail. Both will scare the hangover right out of you. :eek:

I follow Dean Martins advise "the best cure for a hangover is to stay drunk":D:D:D

Seriously though drink a big glass of water and take two tynlenol before going to bed, And NEVER MIX DRINKS. IE start with beer end with beer. Etc etc.

The only thing worse than a hangover is praying to the porcelin god with a hangover.:rolleyes:

Ha!

I had a really bad hangover too today. I was at 6 shots of Jack and 1 shot of UV Blue (for the girlfriend).

Oh my goodness I haven't had that much in so long. I had to decline the invite to a party and went back to my room. I ended up drinking 4 glasses of water before bed.

In the dining hall I drank two glasses of orange juice, some water, a banana, apple, and coffee. I've recovered. :D

Tips for tonight:

1. Drink good liquor. Stop drinking ****ty vodka like Bartons. It really does make a difference.
2. Know when you should switch to water. It's hard, but normally after 3-4 shots of whiskey I go hang out with my friends and head to the parties. There I will probably drink two or three beers and switch to water. I clean out my beer cans and fill them with tap so I don't look like a loser :P
3. Drink more water before bed!
4. Orange juice in the morning.

Good luck my friend! There are other "herbal" remedies... if you catch my drift. They do tend to work, but most of the time I would rather not ruin it with a thrashing head ache.

I'm pretty sure CLK Man has some tips as well.

This beer solves the hangover problem while you drink it. :D:D:D

Man I had a moderate hangover this morning too...one of my buddy's 21st birthday was yesterday so we all went out. Not gonna tally them all up but lets just say I had a lot. 2 full cups of water before bed gets most of the hangover bugs away, but drinking a lot of beer definitely makes me have to poop at least 2-3 times the next day, so I'd count that as part of a hangover.

Where do you go to school Tbo? I was in the greater philly area not too long ago :P

The only hangover cure I know is to get your ass out of bed and get on with your day. Self pity misery is for light weights. If you are going to drink, you know what the consequences are.

If you have to get your butt out of bed to go break rocks in the hot sun at 7 am, I recommend judicious application of liquids, grease and salt (AKA eggs, bacon and buttered toast with OJ) and take a few quarts of water with you and a handfull of non asprin pain killers

If you rise at a more relaxed pace pace a cheeseburger, coke and fries and a stiff bloody mary at say noonish. This will make the afternoon tollerable until you decide to get real and finish the keg that has been sitting in the sun drenched tub in the front yard to get the deposit back so you can go to the bar in the evening.

There is no cure and it gets worse with age. The only remedy is not to drink to excess, something that also becomes more difficult with age.

During college football season, I travel with a zip lock with all this stuff in it.

• 2 aspirin
• 200mg cysteine (available at specialty food stores)
• 600mg vitamin C
• 1 tablet vitamin B-complex
• Fuse smoothee from a convenience store

Good reading here:
http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/hangover/hangover5.html

my brother, after 5 years of frat life double major, swears that a handful of cheezeits and a swig of beer is the cure

Just don't do what I did last Thursday!

My friend had a 14 hour day at work and was tired and pissed. So he called me and was like I'm going to the package store, were drinking!:D So he comes over with a bottle of Captain 100 proof rum. This was about 8:30.

We start working on it and my other friend comes over at about 9:30 and has a drink. By 10 the bottle is dry and we head to the bar, to meet up with another friend. So now I'm on beer and probably had 3-4 Bud lights and a shot of tequila while at the bar. The 2nd friend who showed up called it an early night and left at 11:30, so my budy and his friend from work we met at the bar kept drinking. His friend is used to working 3rd shift but had the night off so he was ready to go at 12. We left the bar at 1 and since me and my first budy were in no shape to drive, his friend drove us to his house. Where we had a couple shots of jack, and a jack and coke, and finaly he drove us home at 3.:D

That was a long night, I can't beleive we pregamed by killing a bottle of Captain 100!:D

The beer is the cure, when I'm camping I usualy drink the hangover away.:D

There's only two cures for a hangover as far as I'm concerned.

-Sucking it up and being a man
-Alka-Seltzer (Alchy-Seltzer.) It always works. The problem is you either puke and feel better, or just feel better. Kind of like "Lets Make a Deal" back when Monty Hall was on it.

Good to see nothing has change with college in 35 years!!

The "hair of the dog" never worked for me!! (I assume every one knows what that is)

We have stuff called Berocca down here, works well, its a massive dose of B group vitamins.

Greasy fried eggs & bacon never worked for me.

A "Pie Floater" before you go home doesnt work. You need to have been to South Australia to know what one of those are. They are said to be good at causing a non surgical stomach pump !!!

Keep a bucket next to your bed!!!

Remember the funniest thing is to be the only sober person at a party full of drunks, you remember everything they dont!!!

Always show up late and no drinks before you get there. The sober guy gets the best girl at the end of the night!! Been there done that!!!

Never forget that parents used to play up too!!!!

I've tried most of that, and the only thing thats ever worked for me is a couple sports drinks before bed, but that only works if your sober enough to remember to do it! An average night for us usually consists of too many drinks to count and waking up with little to no memory of the end of the night.. Side effect of living in the town with the most bars per square mile in the US :D

And yeah, totally forgot it was saturday and not sunday! Maybe I should change that to friday, saturday, and sunday mornings.

I've had good luck with having a few pieces of fried chicken on a beerfest night. It has to be real fried chicken though, not fast food... that just makes it worse.

Ever seen what happens when you combine 13 Guinnesses, a 12" Subway sandwich, and a good bit of scotch on an empty stomach after a double shift at work? It's not pretty.

Usually a good sandwich with meats and cheeses helps. I've heard bacon sandwiches are good too.

NAC (N-acetyl-cysteine)

potassium

electrolytes

(Gatorade works sometimes for me.... )

The day after our parties here. It seems the level of Gatorade in the hangar fridge is mysteriously way down, and so are the O2 bottles in the PA31.

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OR make friends with a paramedic and get two liters of 'lactated Ringer's solution' by IV with 3 lpm oxygen with a non rebreather mask.

I know from a medical standpoint that a hangover is a mix of crazy dehydration and ethanol withdrawal.

So, orange juice and beer? :cool:

I'm a grad student at villanova, did undergrad there too. I think I saw you at Chads for a bit back at the GTG?

I'm pretty sure there's an electolyte imbalance in there also.

I read a medical book* recently in which an alcoholic patient died suddenly, only a few minutes after completing a phone call, and the phone was found right next to the body. She wasn't very old and other than being an alky had no known medical issues. The autopsy revealed no cirrhosis, no cardiomyopathy, no abnormalities of any kind. The patient had been on a bender and had been drinking a lot and not eating much if anything. Turns out alcohol makes your body get rid of certain electrolytes. Potassium is one and in this case, the patient's potassium level got so low that her heart stopped.

*Every Patient Tells a Story Dr. Lisa Sanders, once of the medical consultants for House. Aimed at lay people with an interest in medicine. If you fit that group (I do), it's a very intersting read.

Thats why they say eat bananas, for potassium.

i usually hang a bag of saline and mainline some zofran

being a medic has its benefits

Yeah I think we did meet. I recognize your car more than your user name. I'm better at remembering faces :P

I think from a medical standpoint restoring fluids and electrolytes will eliminate a hang over.

I always drink water before bed though. Tends to solve the problem :cool:

soooo.... i may be pretty wasted right now.

Don't try playing drinking games with CLK Man... you'll lose.


If CLK Man played a drinking game against himself he would win. Period

How many beers does it take CLK Man to get drunk?

Unknown, there haven't been that many beers produced in the history of mankind.

What's CLK Man's mottor for beer and liquor?

Beer before liquor is the secret to nirvana.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o91EBKPpdIw

Have fun!:D

wowza, last night was pretty good.



drank tons of water, some gatorade, and had a pizza last night after the drinking.

Midterms this week. Will likely be experiencing alcohol poisoning this friday after its all over. then SPRING BREAK :D

Ahh to be young again. I need to go camping this summer and go on a nice binge.

I miss the days of waking up and popping open a beer to fix the hangover.:D

X2 on the O2 with the non rebreather, but it only helps until you stop, then you're back to square one again, and I only have one bottle in my personal med bag. The only thing that works for me now is time. It sucks to get old- I used to be completely immune to any consequences of excessive drinking until I turned 40 and then the hangover bill came due with interest!

Went wine tasting today in long island with a couple friends...picked up a few great wines from the area, I apologize in advance if there are any incomprehensible posts from me in this thread this weekend :D

Don't get drunk on wine, you will hate yourself the next day. Wine hangovers are BRUTAL!

This weekend is already starting dd:D

I might be starting my spring break a bit early too. Last test doesn't seem that bad..I can study in the morning.

Menudo. A big bowl before hitting the sack and another bowl when you wake up. Full of minerals, electrolytes, salts and all that stuff.
I've also found that juvenile bragging about how bad your hangover is makes it worse.

Welcome to Athens, wher there are 50+ bars so packd you can barely walk.

I LOVE THIS PLACE.

midterm tomorrroes gonna kill me

Upon learning 1 interesting fact-"every-time you drink enough alchohol to get drunk....at least 10,000 brain cells are killed...never to return"- and I was elated to see that immature part of me...grow up and go away. Drunks are boring dude.