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The Best Hangover Remedies
The Best Hangover Remedies
We’ve all had those nights where we’ve had far too much to drink and we pay the heavy price the next morning. Nausea, headache, weakness, and general malaise are only some of the symptoms that we must put up with. Some home remedies to treat a hangover can actually make you feel worse; a heavy, greasy breakfast can aggravate your nausea and the famous “hair of the dog”, which is basically an alcoholic beverage, will simply get you drunk again and will only put off a hangover until later.
What we are listing here are a few tried-and-true home remedies that will ease your suffering somewhat; however we must emphatically state that this does not constitute medical advice or medical treatment and we are not doctors. If you are suffering from a violent reaction to alcohol or are worried about the severity of your hangover, get professional medical help immediately.
Now, with that out of the way, here are some of the best hangover remedies.
Bananas
Eating a banana might seem like a strange remedy, but it’s the best way to replace all the potassium that was lost the night before. Drinking copious amounts of alcohol makes you urinate much more than usual; when you urinate, you also happen to eliminate potassium. Having a banana will give you a bit of energy to face the day.
Ginger
Ginger has been used to fight nausea for millennia; it’s great to combat seasickness as well. The easiest way to consume ginger is in the form of ginger ale or ginger beer, which are both non-alcoholic soft drinks.
What some experts claim is more effective in alleviating a hangover is fresh ginger tea; if you are feeling all right enough to stand up for a few minutes, peel some ginger root and cut about 10 slices of it. Place the slices in a pot with about four cups of water and boil for ten minutes. Strain it, and add the juice of half a lemon and the juice of one orange. Sweeten with about one half a cup of honey, and sip as much as needed.
Water
Overindulging in alcohol dehydrates you, and it’s the dehydration that can leave you feeling weak with a pounding headache. It’s necessary to replenish your body’s fluids, so have at least eight glasses of water. Water also works well to prevent a hangover; have a couple of glasses of it before going to bed or make sure that while you’re drinking alcohol you have a few rounds of plain water as well.
Lemon and Honey Tea
While this sounds too simple to work, it’s actually very effective. It will replenish fluids and sugars that get lost to a hangover. The honey, which contains fructose, competes for the metabolism of alcohol and will prevent the headache which occurs when there is a rapid change in alcohol level. Plain sugar will not be absorbed as quickly as honey and will therefore not work as well.
To make lemon and honey tea, boil about one cup of water, and add as much freshly squeezed lemon juice and honey as you like. The more you drink, the better.
Plain food
While food might be the last thing you want to think about due to your topsy-turvy stomach, you will need to eat something to regain your strength. The best things you can ingest are plain, dry toast, clear soup, or plain rice.
If you don’t think you can tolerate solids, start off with a plain chicken or beef broth, and later work your way up to toast or rice. Leave the heavy, spicy food until much later, when you’re feeling more like your normal self.
Ice
If your head is pounding, one of the quickest ways to get relief is to put some ice cubes or crushed ice in a plastic bag, wrap it in a towel, and place it on your head. A washcloth dipped in cold water will also work. For this treatment to be effective, you’ll also need to lie down and rest while applying the ice pack or cool cloth.
Sport Drinks
Sport drinks will replace electrolytes, fluids, and glucose. They are great to combat dehydration. If you don’t have sport drinks at home, you can make one yourself. Simply squeeze the juice of one lemon into a tall glass of water, add sugar along with a pinch of salt, and give it a stir.
Juice
Fruit juices are a good way to replace the vitamins, minerals and sugars that were lost during the night of cocktails. Freshly squeezed juice will raise your blood sugar levels back to normal. If you think that orange juice will be too acidic for your already upset stomach, apple juice will also do the trick.
Multivitamins and Antacids
Taking a multivitamin that contains B vitamins will be a good idea as well, and you can always take an antacid such as Pepto-Bismol to calm a “funny tummy”. However, before taking a medication such as an antacid, it will be best to check with your doctor to see if it is appropriate for you.
Time
Research has shown over and over again that the best remedy for a hangover is time. If possible, stay in bed with the curtains closed and sleep for as long as you can. And remember, chances are that by tomorrow, you’ll be good as new.
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Best ways to cure a hangover
How to cure a hangover and best hangover cure
Had a little too much fun last night? Does that entire town know you had a good time last night? Odds are you’re feeling it today with a vicious hangover. Hangovers come in many different shapes and forms, but they all suck. The trendy popular thing to do is just drink a beer in the morning. This works wonders sometimes, but if you really raged last night then odds are you won’t be able to stomach even the thought of mre alcohol going down your throat.
We’ll spare you the details and get right to the list of the best hangover cures.
Drink water, then drink some more water.
It’s a well known fact that alcohol dehydrates your body. The key to really curing a hangover is never letting it happen in the first place. A great defense is offense! Right before going out to drink, drink as much water as you can. This will work wonders for your body the next day, but let’s get real. You wouldn’t be reading this article if you had thought of that last night. So you can still make up for lost time today and drink as much water as you can get your hands on.
Greasy food and Eggs
The grease fro greasy food coats your stomach and helps sooth the pain you might might feeling. A little known fact is that eggs contain a chemical called Cysteine. This chemical will actually break down acetaldehyde toxins in your body from alcohol.
Toast with honey
This is an old home remedy for hangovers. My grandma swears by it.
Cold & hot showers
When taking your daily shower be sure to change the water temp from cold to hot, etc. This is a little trick we learned to shock your body into waking up fully.
Pepto-Bismol & pain relievers
When in doubt reach for the over the counter medicines at your local pharmacy. You will want to try and stay away from medicine containing acetaphetamine, since it’s known to cause a strain on your liver when combined with alcohol.
Drink Real Fruit Juice
Real fruit jucies like all natural orange juice, apple juice, etc. will replenish your body with vitamins that was washed out by the alcohol. This doesn’t always work though, since the acid in some fruit juices can cause an upset stomach to be extra pissed.
Bananas
Bananas contain potassium which is depleted by alcohol. Eating bananas works wonders for our hangovers!
Sleep
Sleeping works wonders and is the great healer of the body. If you can try and sleep off you hangover.
Drink Pickle juice
People of Poland drink pickle juice to balance out their acidity levels after a hard night of boozing.
if worse comes to worse just go with the age old cure…
Hair of the dog
Chug a beer, feel better. The only hard part is trying to stomach the beer if you drank way too much the night before. Bloody marys seem to cure our hangovers much better than beer.
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Budweiser Chelada cures hangovers
Are you looking for a new way to cure that hangover from last night? We think we found it. The budweiser Chelada works wonders for curing hangovers the day after. The beer/tomato mixture seems to work magic together. Hell, we even like them when we’re not hungover. We think they taste great, we seem to like the bud light better than the budweiser.
These Budweiser chelads seem to be much more convienent than having to make a bloody mary, yet they deliver the same hangover curing effect.
Anheuser busch is offering Budweiser Chelada all over the country in mass distribution. You can find these chelads in pretty much any gas station or local store.
These Cheladas comes in a Bud light version and a Budweiser version. It’s all taste preference on which one tastes best, we’ve heard different opinions on them.
Budweiser also made a Chelada fact sheet:
http://www.anheuser-busch.com/pdf/Chelada_Fact_Sheet.pdf
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