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I was wondering the other day in the midst of a massive hangover, that old chestnut how come we have cures for hundreds of diseases and not the common cold. then i was thinking how come there is no cure for a hangover, ive heard lots of wives tales about cures, so was wondering have any of you got a sure fire hangover cure, not some tale you heard but something you have tried and it worked, my favourite is tomato soup but that only settles the stomach and its more for comfort.
So lets go. i promose to try every cure that looks possible, and belive me i will, i have enough hangovers to cover all suggestions.
looking forward to hearing from ya.

BREAKFAST POUTINE. Nothing better.
Oh.. i think you have to be a Canadian for this one.

Basically, as much damned grease as you can get in you the next morning. Burger King, or fried eggs and bacon, etc.
Lots and lots of water. And toast.

Just basically getting active, and getting food/liquid into your system.

The grease is a BAD thing. Plenty of water will do the trick and ginger is also a good thing to use. Don't clog your arteries trying to get rid of a hangover

While your drinking avoid mixing it with sugary drinks and use some ice, the extra little bit of water will make a difference come the next morning. But the best way to limit the hangover is to drink responsibly. Once everything is numb and tingly it means you NEED water, a good rule of thumb is to have a small glass of water after every second or third drink.

Pfft, grease is bad yes, but for hangovers there's nothing better. It's like instant relief in delicious forms!

plenty of water and something to eat (not too greasy) before you go to bed.

A hangover is simply acute dehydration and it's symptoms are what one would experience if you we in the sun too long without drinking fluids. Alcohol acts as a diuretic and it flushes out the fluids in the body. After the fact, water or gatorade along with your analgesic of choice is the most simple aid. In the future, if you'll down about 20 oz bottle of water after a bender and before going to bed, it will do away with virtually all hangovers.

Just drink more!

I believe that is called "The hair of the dog"! Done that quite often when I was a bit younger!

it's the only cure!

For you maybe, makes me throw up

Grease... delicious. Now there's an oxymoron! lol

Lemon water ice. Worked for me every time.

I personally prefer the Hair of the Dog method of recovery but since I have to drive the next day its often just a few pints of water and a Bacon butty

But there is more that happens to the body than simply dehydration when a person gets drunk and suffers a hang over, the most noticeable effect in conjunction with the dehydration is the loss of Electrolytes!

Some of these Electrolytes for example sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chloride, phosphate, hydrogen carbonate help transfer electrical impulses around the brain and therefore have a big impact on our reasoning and emotion's, in short a hungover person can feel blue and generally lethargic.

The loss of electrolytes can also inhibit the electrical impulses being sent to the brain and this can also cause short term memory loss, ever woke up in a field and wondered how the hell you got there?

The rotten gut feeling is simply where your stomach has lost some of its protective barrier due to alcohol consumption causing it to feel delicate like when you are unwell and throw up.

As with all things prevention is better than cure, try and avoid a dreadful hang over and stop at the fat burger shop and get something to eat, even though Half a dead cow between some bread with bacon and cheese @ 02:30am is not good for your diet it will soak up the remaining alcohol and help preserve your stomach lining so when you balance it out the burger is better for you than going to sleep with a gut full of booze.

Also before you crash out drink at least a pint of water, this just helps to counteract to the dehydration when you’re sleeping.

Whoever suggested Gatorade is spot on! Most “sport drinks” contains not only water but the magical Electrolyte's and some other essential elements like glucose whats needed energy, this is probably your best bet to getting back to 100% asap.

Be aware that too much water can cause Water intoxication (also known as hyperhydration or water poisoning)

However the human body is a very clever thing and the Stomach will restore the protective mucus barrier and the Electrolyte levels in your brain will be restored as your body replaces them naturally.

Happy drunking

iv fluid works like magic

I have found three things that help a hangover.

1 2 giant oranges the next morning (I think they replace vital vitamins which are lost during that session)

2 Drink one pint of water or fruit juice just before sleeping and make sure you have another pint by your bed so that when you wake up in the night it is there immediately to help dehydration

3 Hair of the dog is good because if you have binged on booze the night before your body will have withdrawal symptoms

I must admit it is extremely rare I get hangovers if I do the above and believe me I do like a tipple or 75 sometimes

My first idea..............

Hangovers aahhh got to love them! I always get them bad but i do drink to excess when i go out, its not unusual for me to spend £100 on a night out.
When you get in if you can work the toaster try eating LOTS of toast with butter like 8 peices then a pint of water after. If you have the room chuck a pint of milk down your throat. The toast soaks up the drink, the water helps to hydrate you and the milk lines the stomach. If you can next day get out in the fresh air I also like to sweat the drink out next day too, get your trainers on and have a good run or any other exercise that will get it out of your pores after that a nice hot bath and if your still feeling like death and aint got work crawl back into your pit and zzzzzzzzzz.

Honey for headache, grape for nausea, juice of water melon for "fever", pomelo with sugar, juice of celery, yogurt, banana, oliver. Vit. B1 100mg 3 times per day.

You took the words right out of my mouth, BurnSide! It may not be GOOD for you (but then again, getting drunk enough to have a hangover isn't the most healthy of ideas, either), but after the water and the tylenol, grease is what I go for first. Then (if I can), I go straight back to bed.

The best ever cure for hang over is:

Persuading the missus to do the right thing and alleviate your aching ...... erm .....brain!!!

Closely followed Staying in bed all day watching telly and ordering pizza, and for the evenings entertainment a phat "special" cigi and a good film also help distract from the nausea

What I used to do was to have iced tea mix in the house at all times, cause well I was a party girl. Anyway, you make it as strong as you can, almost with sludge at the bottom. If this satys down, awesome, if it doesn't after you puke it up, do it again until the mixture stays down. This does work, I did it many times because I had to work after drinking the night before.

Oh, I have to agree, nothing gets rid of a hang over faster and better than a nasty Quarter Pounder with Cheese and a big old bucket of nasty McD's fries. I don't know why it works, but it does.

Also, the Chaser product (pill form) sold at a lot of convenience stores actually does work quite well. It was a tablet designed by the CIA, in the hopes that operatives could take it and drink alcohol and that Chaser, would keep them from getting drunk. Unfortunately, it didn't quite work, people still got drunk, but the side effect was that they woke up with no hang over. I've tried it on a number of occasions, and it works pretty well.

My personal recipe for no hangovers is to eat well before drinking. I don't eat any starchy foods if I know I'm going to be drinking. I eat meat, fish, veggies, fruits and drink lots of water BEFORE drinking alcohol (no pasta, potato, bread etc... rice seems to be ok if you want a little starch). I also avoid high sugar alcohols like rum, beer, wine... if I'm having mixed drinks, I also mix it with a diet soda. The sugar overload from juice mixers and sugar sodas is a mixture for a headache.

Generally if I stick to drinking vodka or gin, mixed with diet soda, eat a hearty no or low starch dinner, I never wake with a hangover.

I love wine though, that's usually when I'll eat my good dinner and make sure that I take a Chaser too. That always works.

This works every time for me: one full glass of water, Advil (I can take 6 at one time, YMMV), and a small bowl of unsalted tortilla chips before bed. The chips work to help soak up the yuck in your stomach. The advil is obvious and the water helps to dilute your system.

My boyfriend always tries to pull that one!

I think that I have to agree with the majority of people here:
The best hangover cure is as much grease as you can possibly eat;
water; and spending the rest of the day relaxing
Although I do find going for an antagonizingly long walk also works wonders as well.
(Personal preference)
Oh yeah - and fruit. Lots of it.
Just so you feel better about the night before.
Hehe

I'll agree with drinking a glass of water and taking a tylenol/advil with it before bed. Works like a charm. I get BAD hangovers and they're almost non-existant if I do this.

I knock back copious quantities of ice cold water and some fresh 100% orange juice with no preservatives or some tomato cocktail. Apart from bacon and eggs, which always works, I've found a good, strong Indian curry will always work, too!

But mainly rehydrate, rehydrate, rehydrate

Seems like there is a general consensis that water is the way to go....

Water and Oxygen. Real bottled Oxygen (like used by aviators) is the best. Five minute cure, honestly. That and replacing the lost fluids. I've gone from sick as hell to 90% in less than an hour. Nothing cures the usual tiredness you have like a nap! Other than that the oxy and water fixed the rest, even the nausea.

Yea I'm with aztec.... there is nothing better for a hangover than a little visit from my good friend mary Jane. Always gets me peppy and ready for the day. (and I've had some pretty bad hangovers)

Best cure for a hangover is a banana, some water with a small amount of salt.
Failing that... down half a pint of vodka.

I do that to and it's wonderful.

Though if I drink a bit much and I do end up hung over... I just force myself to get it over with as quickly as possible (ack!) and drink the largest gatorade I can possibly find.

Hotsauce .

An easy way is not to get one in the first place!!!
Just swap every second alcholoic drink with water! if you even it out throughout your night, you should be sweet!
Oh and do eat during your drinking binge!!! It helps with your blood volume, a\makes it a little more difficult for your blood to absorb heaps of alchole

I agree...dehydration is the main cause of a hangover. I have also found that taking isotonic OPC's (super antioxidants) will prevent hangovers everytime. I can get ripped on just two drinks. OPC's work like a charm...but they have to be isotonic. I've tried the pill form to no avail.

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The best cure for a hangover is to NOT DRINK! If you don't drink alcohol, you're sure not to get a hangover.

But it would be hypocritical of me to suggest that someone not drink, since I've been known to occasionally have a Vodka Tonic. Okay, not occasionally...but....oh alright, they have one waiting for me every time I walk into my favorite bar.

I've never had a hangover. No matter how much I drink, I wake up the next morning feeling as beautiful as a sunflower.

Just make sure you drink a few glasses of water while your drinking. And a big one before you go to bed. That usually works for me. Either that or take some high class pain killers in the morning. That covers it right up.

A couple units of Sodium Chloride.9% Intraveniuosly works very well too, instantly really when combined with Ibuprofin... But you have to know people to get that done...

Exactly. I drink a litter of water about a hour before I go to bed.

i found that by throwing up all night, involuntarily of course, and driniking a lot of water, works well for me

Two words : EAT. SLEEP.

Well, Take a panadole, sleep in and when you wake up, drink lots of water. Then get up, (Im usually starving), go to your nearest bakery, in that time you would have sucked in a fair amount of fresh air. Buy yourself a big fat juicy
gravy infused meat pie. Drive back home in the fresh air and smother it with HEAPS of tomato sauce. Then drink more water.
My cousin,( carst iron gut) wakes up, grabs himself a drink of what he was drinking the night before and hes on his way. Berroca makes me spew so I cant drink it. Truth is I dont get hangovers any more. Black label Jim Beam is liquid gold on a Friday night.

I never found one which is why I stopped drinking.

So it looks like the general consensus is, that we dont have a sure fire cure except maybe that chaser pill someone mentioned, but ive never seen it in any stores in the countrys ive visted.
so ahh well looks like i just better get used to sundays being a day on the sofa drinking fluids an muvching junk food. when you think about it, its not too bad really.

my cure for a hangover is DON'T DRINK LIQUOR!! xo

my cure for avoiding a hangover is to carry on drinking preventing yourself from ever becoming sober

or if you cant aford to keep buying alcohol then drink plenty of water before going to sleep

I drink half a liter of water through out the night and half a liter before bed with some vitamins and fish oil. I drank 9 beers last night. No hangover.

The best cure ever will be not to use alcohol, but facing the facts it's sometimes difficult to do.

What usually works for me is lots of powerade\energade(replacing the electrolytes and rehydrating the body), 2 banana's(replacing lost pottasium etc), something to eat and 2 headache pills and lots and lots of sleep. Sometimes it doesn't cure the hangover completely but it makes the symptoms more managable.

ive worked in lots of bars as a waitress. NEVER drink water.. it will make you MORE drunk.
what we always did to help friends with hang overs.. is get them to eat on salted lemon's oranges or limes

works pretty good

another thing I always did was ice tea and saltine crackers.. or icetea and plain toast no butter.

but its true..as well.. on the way home from the bars everybody used to go to the local all night grease joint
it helps for SOME reason... and always.. they would get black coffee with their meal.

drinking more helps to.. drink yourself sober.

I've always found out more beer cures a hangover. It's not responsible but it works! A water pipe full of your favorite smoking blend works wonders too.I NEVER WOULD OF THOUGHT OF THAT!!