FOAK: Hangover Cures

Ok. I'm bored and feeling - for an inexplicable reason - pretty
depressed. I'm cheering myself up with wine and chocolate but given my
limited water resopurces, what can I add to a litre of water to make
sure tomorrow is bearable?

 

Teaspoon of sugar, flip it around, as much salt as fits on the tip of
the handle. One of each per glass.

Oh, and Neurofen.

HTH.

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I'm ok either way, as I have had PIE!

 

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:28:07 GMT, Catman

Do I lick the sugar off the floor, cos that proved messy.

And per glass of wine? Eeeuch.

 

Pie is good ......

 

If you wish

No water, dope

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True. They're fierce little buggers when they ain't been fed.

 

<looks at boxes>

Tramadol and cocodamol?

 

How big is a "glass of water"? There's a number of sizes of glass here,
from shot glass to pint glass, with tumblers and general drinking
things. What's what?

 

Better than Aspirin, to which it's very closely related, but most
other classes of painkillers don't generally cause much in the way of
stomach problems at all.

An intolerence to aspirin also applies to ibuprofen. I'm sure you knew
that, but thought I'd add it for the hard of thinking.

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Gin.

 

We could play "Where's Snowy?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:GinLane.jpg

 

Except paracetamol of course (which has it's own problems).

Like me (from years of taking them) - cured by taking them with a glass
of milk. Seems to buffer the corrosive effect nicely.

Phil

 

Full English with all the trimmings and extra bacon.....

remember to dip the spoon in the bacon grease before stirring the tea.

 

Sorry, come in bit late to this but that's not necessarily true.

I'll have to look it up, but there's a BMJ article on "the alcohol
hangover" where the guy argues in favour of the methanol content in
booze being the most important factor in determining whether or
severity of the subsequent hangover.

When the alcohol is broken down by your liver, the first product is an
aldehyde, which is pretty toxic. Ethanol is broken down to
acetaldehyde, which (though unpleasant) is quickly broken down itself.
Methanol is converted to formaldehyde, which can't readily be broken
down, and hangs about for a while being toxic - thus why you can feel
pretty rough the following day.

Added to this, ethanol is broken down in preference to methanol, so
while you're asleep your body works its way through all the ethanol -
and then gets started on the methanol the next day - which is why you
can wake up feeling fine, and after a couple of hours suddenly feel
like crap as a load of formaldehyde hits your bloodstream.

So the cure is to have a little bit of ethanol the next day, a shot or
so, to just get the ethanol metabolism restarted, but no so much so
that you totally stop breaking down the meths.

Another problem is that metabolising a skinful of alcohol causes an
excess of NADH in your liver, which means your glocose regulation gets
all screwed up and your blood sugar crashed a bit, thus why it's so
nice eating on a hangover.

 

haha. tramadol would def do it - though co-codamol contains
paracetamol so you shouldn't really use it while stress-testing your
liver on alcohol

 

That's pretty much the way I heard it 'bout 30 years ago - the liver
does its job and the BS level gets v.low as an aside; which is why I
started taking a glucose tablet the next morning, with some large degree
of success. In the absence of glucose a cup of decent sugary coffee and
a French fag.
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And which is why I tend to have a glass of wine as part of my blood
sugar control..

Or at least that's my excuse.

Phil.

 

it'd work for me ...

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That'll be a proper Full English without that norvern black pudding
shite then?