Hangover cure?

[SomeRandom]

Guys, what’s your go to hangover cure?
Coffee?
McDonalds?
Your local fast food?
Just drowning yourself in water or Powerade?
100 burgers?
Whatever yours is, let me know
Mine is a bacon and egg McMuffin lol
Cliche maybe but I’m lazy so eh

 

[SalixIncendium]

Time. Once a hangover starts, in my experience, time is the only true cure. Symptoms can be mitigated slightly by hydrating oneself, but it takes time to overcome the alcohol withdrawal.

I've found preventative measures to be more effective than hangover cures...

Water...and lots of it, prior to going to sleep intoxicated.

Dehydration is the leading cause for most hangover symptoms.

 

[SomeRandom]

Time. Once a hangover starts, in my experience, time is the only true cure. Symptoms can be mitigated slightly by hydrating oneself, but it takes time to overcome the alcohol withdrawal.

I've found preventative measures to be more effective than hangover cures...

Water...and lots of it, prior to going to sleep intoxicated.

Dehydration is the leading cause for most hangover symptoms.

Oh of course.
It’s why Powerade and what we call Gatorade here is so popular. They’re drinks that rehydrate you fast lol

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Guys, what’s your go to hangover cure?
Coffee?
McDonalds?
Your local fast food?
Just drowning yourself in water or Powerade?
100 burgers?
Whatever yours is, let me know
Mine is a bacon and egg McMuffin lol
Cliche maybe but I’m lazy so eh

A slurpie.
Sugar plus hydration plus cold.

However, drinking water between alcoholic drinks the night before works better, honestly.

 

[ChristineM]

Guys, what’s your go to hangover cure?
Coffee?
McDonalds?
Your local fast food?
Just drowning yourself in water or Powerade?
100 burgers?
Whatever yours is, let me know
Mine is a bacon and egg McMuffin lol
Cliche maybe but I’m lazy so eh

Don't get drunk... Works for me.


A friend swore by a 'hair of the dog". Whenever he woke with a hangover his first action was make himself a g&t. If that didn't work he'd head off to the pub.

 

[exchemist]

Time. Once a hangover starts, in my experience, time is the only true cure. Symptoms can be mitigated slightly by hydrating oneself, but it takes time to overcome the alcohol withdrawal.

I've found preventative measures to be more effective than hangover cures...

Water...and lots of it, prior to going to sleep intoxicated.

Dehydration is the leading cause for most hangover symptoms.

Yes hydration is an issue. But there is also chemistry. Hangovers come partly from acetaldehyde and formaldehyde, which are intermediate oxidation products from partially metabolising ethanol and methanol (there can, apparently, be traces of of methanol in some alcoholic drinks) respectively. The enzyme that oxidises these aldehydes further in the next step takes time to work, and how fast it works varies between individuals - often more slowly in Asiatic people, for example.

You can sometimes taste aldehydes the next morning if you have a hangover. I've even smelt it on the breath of a hungover guy sleeping on the beach after a New Year party. But maybe only a chemist would recognise the smell.

Details here: The Chemistry of a Hangover

Hydration helps not only with dehydration but also by making the kidneys work and thus helping to excrete these byproducts more quickly.

 

[Father Heathen]

Hydration and maybe some caffeine as well, though these days I very rarely drink.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Hydration and maybe some caffeine as well, though these days I very rarely drink.

Caffeine is a diuretic. In my experience, it exacerbates any headache pain and dehydration.

 

[Secret Chief]

Guys, what’s your go to hangover cure?
Coffee?
McDonalds?
Your local fast food?
Just drowning yourself in water or Powerade?
100 burgers?
Whatever yours is, let me know
Mine is a bacon and egg McMuffin lol
Cliche maybe but I’m lazy so eh

Abstinence.

 

[Father Heathen]

Caffeine is a diuretic. In my experience, it exacerbates any headache pain and dehydration.

I'm not disputing that, although some pain relief powders like Goody's and BC include it as one of their ingredients, which were my go-tos back in the day.

 

[Father Heathen]

Abstinance

Hangovers are for after marriage, as god intended.

 

[JustGeorge]

I learned that the sugar in drinks 'bothered' me more than the alcohol itself, so I avoided sweet drinks. I also 'mixed' with flavored water. I seldom got hangovers after I figured that out.

But, before that...

Vitamin Water's Rehab drink and Subway(vegetable only sandwich) seemed to help a lot.

 

[1137]

Not drinking has proven to be a solid preventative

 

[SomeRandom]

Not drinking has proven to be a solid preventative

Pretty sure that’s illegal in Australia

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Caffeine is a diuretic. In my experience, it exacerbates any headache pain and dehydration.

That's true.
It's also a comfort food (for some of us) and can boost short term energy.

It's not actually 'good' for a hangover, but it can give us the nice feels.

 

[Vinayaka]

Time. Once a hangover starts, in my experience, time is the only true cure. Symptoms can be mitigated slightly by hydrating oneself, but it takes time to overcome the alcohol withdrawal.

I've found preventative measures to be more effective than hangover cures...

Water...and lots of it, prior to going to sleep intoxicated.

Dehydration is the leading cause for most hangover symptoms.

I have an excellent preventative measure. It's called not drinking.

 

[Onasander]

Don't drink, amd join The Prohibition Party.

 

[SomeRandom]

Don't drink, amd join The Prohibition Party.

Ehh the Prohibition party technically created like a bunch of 1920s gangsters.

 

[Onasander]

We didn't create the gangsters, just unified them with purpose. Join us.

 

[SomeRandom]

We didn't create the gangsters, just unified them with purpose. Join us.

Hmm true.

Nah, it would be too un-Australian of me