Anyone know a good tried and tested hangover cure?

Urrrgh! I've tried hair of the dog and it nearly made me vomit. I've taken 2x 500mg paracetamol/30mg codeine and that has made me feel worse...any ideas?
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Tuna sandwiches made with wholemeal bread. Works best for me.

Basic biology, dude. Hangovers are due to dehydration. Alcohol dehydrates you at the cellular level. Drink water, sipping constantly if you are unable to chug large volumes without puking.

And if you never want to get hung over in the first place, make sure you drink a glass of water for every few drinks while you are drinking - that way you never get dehydrated. You may have to piss more often, but it's a good trade off.

billyellis wrote:

Totally agreed, billyellis

And sleep it off will help

Next time you shouldn't drink too much

Monkey D. Ruffy

Very smart billyellis. While lots of water works well, if you can try Pedialite. It's kinda like Gatorade for babies. As well as being dehydrated, your body also needs the electrolytes, not found in water.

While Gatorade will do the same as Pedialite, it is loaded with sugar and may make the nausea worse.

Whatever you do, don't use coffee or caffeine as that will make you more dehydrated, and wide awake to enjoy your symptoms more.

An apple.


Not before, during or after the drinking but instead of.

In fact, the most effective way is drinking a reasonable amount of water before going to bed. 1 litre should be okay. Drink constantly not all at a time unless you want to vomit instantly.

If that doesn't help and you have access to pharmceutics you could mix yourself:

1x MCP (prevents you from vomiting)
1x Loperamid (prevents you from getting Diarrhoe due to taking MCP... )
1x Paracetamol 500
1x ACC 300/600 (there's no big side effects if you take 600)
1x Novalgin (the smallest volume available)

That works pretty fine but should always be regarded as ultima ratio! It DOES affect your body

The best think to remove a hangover is to drink some liquids before to go to bed (because you'll suffer from deshydratation) but the morning if you drinks somes alcool (bacardy breezer, etc.) you'll find better because in fact the hangover is a lack in alcool after a period where your body has a lot ( kind of dependence)

A Bloody Mary after drinking a large glass of water helps greatly with my hangovers.
Certainly prevention is best, but not as fun

cheers

sum_41 wrote:

Uh, completely not true. Both this post and the next suggest more alcohol. This can help dampen any painful hangover effects temporarily, but unless you add water to your body as well you are just delaying the hangover. And of course if you got really blitzed, the thought of drinking more alcohol the next morning will probably only make you want to be sick...

I always enjoyed a Wendys Frosty. Cooled the stomach and just made me feel a bit better after a morning of tossing.

I've been a semi-pro wino since I was 15. I can drink a sixty and still have room for more. Those kind of drunks nothing short of an IV and a dialysis machine are going to improve your condition next morning. But for lesser drunks I've been able to manage the pain with:

2 advil cold and sinus 200 mg
6-8 Chlorella
chug it down with a half liter of water or sport drink.

The chlorella is a metabolizer, it will clean up all the sugar and the toxicity in your system. It is the reason why you will not wake up after several hours, ie. the spins. The advil is self-explanatory.

You will feel sleepy the next day, but have only a very, very slight headache.

Chlorella can be found in any health food store.

THIS IS NOT SPAM.

The best cure... sleep! If you have to get up early the next morning then just don't drink! This always works best for me!

If you can't avoid drinking when getting up early the next day then a glass of water before bed is always good but the next morning you will still feel like crap. For the next morning I find alka seltzer is great. Take the two tabs and repeat again one hour later.

Drinking water in between alcoholic drinks doesn't work! Who actually does this???

Here is an interesting point... has anyone here ever tried drinking 10 pints of water (and nothing else) one every 40 minutes? Can you do it???

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Actually Esteban, I can and do on a daily basis. Being a bodybuilder, water is VERY important, so I consume 24oz of water an hour all day long. A lot of bathroom trips but it keeps my body very hydrated.

I do know that the average person cannot consume that much water, it took me years to work up to that.

try to drink water at night, stay cool when you sleep (if you are hot you are in trouble)

and in the morning alkaseltzer.