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How to Care for a Hangover
That headache, nausea, thirst and fatigue you feel are all symptoms of dehydration. Follow these steps to eliminate those symptoms and get back to feeling your best.
Steps:
1. Drink water as soon as you get up in the morning to rehydrate yourself. If possible, have a sports drink. The electrolytes and nutrients in a sports drink can replenish your body's depleted reserves.
2. Drink even more water if you plan to have coffee. Caffeine is a mild diuretic and can contribute to dehydration.
3. Stick to liquids that are at room temperature. Drinks that are excessively hot or cold will be even more of a shock to your struggling stomach.
4. Take an over-the-counter pain reliever such as aspirin or ibuprofen to relieve a pounding headache or body aches.
5. Eat easily digestible foods when you're ready. Fresh fruit, toast and water-based soups are all easy on the stomach. Harder-to-digest foods such as eggs and milk can cause stomach problems.
6. Relax, rest or go back to bed. Allow some time for your body to feel positive effects from your treatments.
Tips:
Take preventive measures beforehand: Drink responsibly and in moderation. If you've drunk in excess and suspect you'll be hung over the next morning, drink a few glasses of water right before you go to bed.
Rehydrate yourself with liquids that are at room temperature. Drinks that are excessively hot or cold will make your struggling stomach work even more.
Warnings:
Do not take an acetaminophen-based painkiller to relieve symptoms. Combining acetaminophen and alcohol can damage your liver. Consider ibuprofen instead.
If you are an excessive drinker, use caution when taking any over-the-counter painkillers.
This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice or treatment.
Tips from eHow Users:
Sure-fire hangover cure by eHow Friend
Before going to bed, drink plenty of water and take vitamin B6. In the morning, have 2 teaspoons of honey - it will absorb some of the alcohol. Then drink plenty of room-temperature water.
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Eat menudo by Edith
Eating this Mexican stew, menudo, is the only thing that works for me. Put lots of lime juice in seltzer water and drink it. You'll start feeling better fast.
If you can, walk on the treadmill to break a sweat and drink tons of water.
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I thought this might come in handy for you new years partiers. Got it off wikipedia how-to thingy.
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Another tip I can give is not to drink beer. Stick to hard liquor and you should be fine. I've never, ever had a hangover after a night of straight vodka.
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Oxygen, I bet you've either not drinking in extreme excess, or have alot of terrible stories. Lots of hard alchohol makes you do very dumb things. (Friends have lost control of their bowels, pissed in there closet, jumped out a secondy story window onto pavement, light someone on fire to the point of him having to go the emergency room (almost died) and get extensive plastic surgery ect)
Drink lots of water and eat lots of food, then sleep on your stomach and you'll be good. Time is the only cure for a hang over, those tips just make you not worsen your hangover.
Also, liqour before beer and your in the clear, beer before liqour makes you sicker is a rule some of my friends apparently live by.
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iNcontroL
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getting pulled over / car accidents always have sobered me up in the past right bit quick.
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hmmmm if i drink water in the morning i get drunk all over again. i go for the fooooooood then drink water or anything else.
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Most of my hangovers really come form beer, since I probably dehydrate the most.
For me if I'm not dead-drunk works this -
I try not to sleep too much, instead after not more than 6 hours I wake and drink water, even take a shower. Repeat this several times to rehydrate properly. If u take a deep sleep for a 8-9 hours your body will dehydrate too badly and will require a whole day of rest.
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Water, water, water and sleep some more is all you can do in my experience :-/. You can't magically make it go away, just ride it out!
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I was told by an anaesthetist that dexamethasone cures the hangover. (damn I forgot to get some dexamethasone -.-)
as far as im concerned, this is the only real cure - everything else seems to be prevention really. water (and abstinence) is probably the best preventer.
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the best cure is not to drink alcohol you sillys!
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and where's the fun in that Zpux?
i just drink like 1,5 liters of water when i get home. helps a little but it doesn't matter if i have a headache when i wake up, because it was probably worth it
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never lit someone on fire, don't drink to extreme excess. most people don't, though, so I think hard liquor will be better for the general populace.
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On January 01 2006 08:51 Oxygen wrote:
never lit someone on fire, don't drink to extreme excess. most people don't, though, so I think hard liquor will be better for the general populace.
That's the problem. Hard alcohol is very difficult to control perfectly. One (strong) drink can knock you out so fast that you wont believe it
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On January 01 2006 02:33 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
getting pulled over / car accidents always have sobered me up in the past right bit quick.
Indeed, nothing like the odd mailbox to snap you out of it!
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On January 01 2006 00:16 Suicide wrote:
Oxygen, I bet you've either not drinking in extreme excess, or have alot of terrible stories. Lots of hard alchohol makes you do very dumb things. (Friends have lost control of their bowels, pissed in there closet, jumped out a secondy story window onto pavement, light someone on fire to the point of him having to go the emergency room (almost died) and get extensive plastic surgery ect)
Drink lots of water and eat lots of food, then sleep on your stomach and you'll be good. Time is the only cure for a hang over, those tips just make you not worsen your hangover.
Also, liqour before beer and your in the clear, beer before liqour makes you sicker is a rule some of my friends apparently live by.
what about liquor beer liquor? or beer liquor beer?
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i sugest not mixing those, stick with one thing. last time i got drunk i went beer-liquor-almost beer. Almost beer because i was gg before i could finish it lol
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If you're going to mix it, I suggest liquor then beer.
If you drink some beers first and then mix it with hard alcohol you will have a quite difficult time judging how hard the liquor will hit you 
If you start with liquor and then switch to beers, it will be much easier judge the effect.
That's the advice for newbies anyway 
I usually do a mix beer/alco/beer/alco and so on. But I pay the price sometimes, a hang over has happened more than once
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This is a very good guide, it doesn't mean it will work but its the closest thing to a cure;)
and i have the same thing oxygen, but it doesnt work for everyone.
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It's not rocket science. Keep sipping on a bottomless glass of water while you sober up and there will be no hangover.
Suggesting all these different ways to rehydrate yourself and calling each individual one a "new unique hangover cure" seems kind of frivolous to me. It all comes back to drinking water.
No Aunt Jamima milkshakes with raw egg and Pepto Bismol, just drink water idiot.
What do Chaser tablets say on the packaging, "Take 1 chaser tablet with 4 full glasses of water to relieve hangover symptoms"?
Water.
Water water water water water
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problem with beer is everyone gives it to you! I really like beer but not when I go out. It makes you sweat, gives you bad breath, is heavy on the stomach. I prefer straight vodka shots all the way and take pauses in between to see how im doing. but yesterday i started off with loads of beer then champaign then beer champagin vodka beer vodka, needless to say i was fcked;p went to bed at 7 or so woke up at 6
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