Hangover Preventatives for Before, During, and After Drinking

If you want to totally prevent a hangover then don’t drink. However, if alcohol is going to be part of your good time, there are some scientifically proven methods that you can use before, during, and after drinking to help prevent the morning after misery.

Planning your night out before you start drinking can help you feel better the next day. Start by eating a good meal. Focus on eating foods that are high in fat and carbohydrates. A full stomach does not absorb alcohol as easily as an empty one, allowing your body to process the alcohol more easily. Fatty foods and high carbohydrate foods take longer to digest, so the effect lasts longer. By eating first, you can also decrease stomach irritation.

It is important to stay hydrated so drink water before consuming alcohol. Taking a multivitamin can also help combat the vitamin and mineral loss that the diuretic affects of alcohol can cause.

When drinking, there are some things that you can do to help prevent alcohol absorption. You should drink slowly, preferably no more than one drink an hour. This gives your body enough time to process the alcohol. Having a drink of water or a sports drink with your drink will help to keep you hydrated and allow your body more time to process the toxins.

Another thing to do is to watch what you are drinking. Mixing drinks will often cause you to feel worse the next day. Beer has the lowest amount of alcohol, but carbonation allows it to be absorbed faster. Wine is higher in alcohol, but is not carbonated, and white wine has fewer congeners than red. Cheap wines also tend to be higher in congeners than the more expensive types. Liquor has the highest amount of alcohol, and clear liquors have fewer congeners than dark ones, and again, the cheaper the liquor, the more likelihood of a hangover.

When you get home from your night out, there are some things that you can do before going bed. Take two aspirins with a full glass of water to help hydrate you and decrease hangover severity in the morning.

Make sure that to take actual aspirin, not acetaminophen, which can cause more problems for your liver.

When you wake up in the morning, you should take two more aspirins with another glass of water to help stave off a headache caused by inflammation. Taking another vitamin can help you replenish the vitamins and minerals that you loss the night before and set you on the road to recovery.

A healthy breakfast can also help. Eggs have cysteine that can break down toxins; bananas include potassium crucial to hydration, and fruit juices or sports drinks can help by replenishing sugar, salt, and electrolytes that you may have lost. Start out slowly, to avoid nausea, and avoid caffeinated beverages that will prolong your misery.

The best thing to do to prevent a hangover is not to drink at all, but if you are going to anyway then the above steps should help lessen the painful affects.

Hangover: Before & After

A hangover is the result of excessive alcoholic drinking. It resulted in many unpleasant physiological effects. The most common symptoms of hangover are:

* headache

* dry mouth

* nauseous

* dizziness

* sensitivity to light and noise

According to research, some of the possible causes of these symptoms are dehydration, loss of mineral and essential salts and hypoglycemia.

Hangovers may last up to two or three days after alcohol was last consumed and varies from person to person, and occasion to occasion, usually beginning several hours after drinking.

Although it is almost common to experience this unpleasantness, it is also useful to be prepared and get ready before the next time you are going out for that late night hang out or party. Here are some tips on how hangover can be avoided and cured.

BEFORE

Tips to minimize the possibility of getting the hangover

1) Choose the less darker colored drinks.

The darker sweeter drinks, such as brandy, sherry, whiskey and red wine contains more congeners-complex organic molecules) will give you more hangover as compared to white wine and vodka.

2) Eat before you drink.

Food tends to absorb alcohol, therefore can minimize the after-effect of alcohol.

3) Moderation.

The safest bet of all is to practice moderation when drinking. Moderation is healthy and painless. Drink enjoyably, but as part of a social event, not the goal.

AFTER

So you’ve had way enough drink last night and the symptoms of hangover has started to appear, you need to:

1) Drink lots and lots of water.

Alcohol tends to dehydrate so you need to pump in fluid to replenish the water loss.

2) Avoid caffeine

Caffeine will only continues to dehydrate you, that’s the exact opposite of what you want right now.

3) Take Vitamin C and B12

Vitamin C tends to break the alcohol in your body and vitamin B 12 acts as an antidote. Take them with lots of water.

4) Rest, rest and rest.

You owe your body the rest it needed in order to fully recovered and recharged, so try to sleep. Try taking a shower if you can’t sleep as it could help you to do so.