Step 9: Treat a hangover
Acetaminophen + alcohol = vicious, liver-destroying poison. Don't take Tylenol when you've been drinking.
After a long night out on the town, if you are in any condition to do so, take two aspirin before bed. These will help decrease the severity of the hangover in the morning by inhibiting prostaglandins. (You know you don't want those prostaglandins running around inside of your body like evil elves while you have the spins.) Then take two more in the morning with some breakfast. It'll decrease the severity of the morning headache and decrease the elf- or prostaglandin-related swelling.
If it's one of those mornings where the hair of the dog sounds as appetizing as actual canine fur, aspirin's your ticket to a productive day.
After a long night out on the town, if you are in any condition to do so, take two aspirin before bed. These will help decrease the severity of the hangover in the morning by inhibiting prostaglandins. (You know you don't want those prostaglandins running around inside of your body like evil elves while you have the spins.) Then take two more in the morning with some breakfast. It'll decrease the severity of the morning headache and decrease the elf- or prostaglandin-related swelling.
If it's one of those mornings where the hair of the dog sounds as appetizing as actual canine fur, aspirin's your ticket to a productive day.
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I learned a bit and had some good laughs while reading your 'ibles.
Thanks!
1) gastritis : irritation with possible bleeding in the stomach
2) make a disease-based or drug-induced 'anti-coagulant' state into a serious problem.
3) make worse a cerebral bleed type of stroke
4) cause gout (as it competes with uric acid for the kidney's method of ridding your body of uric acid (urate). So, the urate increases and in some individuals gout can onset.
I'm not aware of anything ingested that can't have any negative side-effects ... yes, including food and water!
The best cure for hangover is not going overboard with your drinking, if you must get trashed, drink quality liquor instead of the cheap $10 bottle of vodka... The reason you have hangovers is due to the way the liquor was distilled, lower quality liquor is usually only distilled once, so there's still methanol left in the final product after the distillation process, which is what causes hangovers... Higher quality liquors are distilled multiple times (usually 4-5 times, but some have been known to be distilled up to a dozen times) to further reduce the amount of methanol left after the distillation process, and therefore the higher quality liquor is less prone to cause hangovers...
If you must drink cheap booze, drinking lots of water throughout the night and eating a couple slices of bread before you go to bed helps avoid or reduce the intensity of your hangover in the morning as well
As a lifelong migraine sufferer (albeit, slightly different than a hangover...) I've use weed as a pain reliever, and as a preventative. It's been found to have so many medical benefits - right down to relief of irritable bowel syndrome...so whose really to say that it might not work for hangovers? Until unbiased medical studies are done, no one can attest to that.
That being said, If you have the 'spins' at all, weed will just make you spin more and eventually throw up.
At least this is what I've found to be true.
Smoke weed everyday.
Ingesting water after alcohol enhances elimination of alcoholic derivatives/metabolites.
Dissolved aspirin has been used to control mosquitoes in India, as it messes up their pheromone transmission/reception.
Taking aspirin for pain after childbirth increases the likelihood of physical child abuse. Taking anything for pain after childbirth generally increases the likelihood of physical child abuse by a few percentage points.
"Moreover, plant allomones like aspirin, cinnamon, quinidine, and dozens of others have similar beneficial cardiac effects that must be based, at least in part, upon their natural anti-herbivory semiochemical function. (Indeed, common antibiotics are naturally allomones, it is often how they were discovered in the first place.)" Nicholson B. 2011 Of Love textbook of medical science: exocrinology.
Robson and Kumar27 found that during labor, doses of more than 125 mg. of meperidine, (or Demerol) a powerful analgesic, delayed the onset of bonding. Hollenbeck and his coworkers75 found that among other factors observed during feeding in the first month, higher doses of all types of medication, including aspirin, received by mothers during the first four postpartum days were associated with mothers kissing their infants less often.
cancer is inherent in white mice!
;)
On the other hand, bossing a new mother around too much about whether she's really in pain after childbirth can not only raise the chances of child abuse, it can raise the chances of her knocking you silly while she's at it. ;P
Deaths from the drug 'Ecstasy' are mostly due to hyponatremia : the electrolyte dilution consequence of too much water in your blood system ..
but you should definately avoid paracetomol like the plague- people have died from mixing alcohol and paracetomol due to the increased liver toxoicity.
If you wake up feeling really yeurgh due to your overindulgence the night before I can recommend ( :-) snigger) dropping two fizzy soluble aspirin in a glass and chugging it back- you will instantly be sick thereby removing a large quantity of undigested food and any undigested alcohol from your stomach. This may make you feel a bit better- you will still have all the absorbed alcohol swilling around in your bloodstream tho and a massive hangover, NB if tyou are dumb enough to try this no responsibility is taken for any ensueing consequences - especially the cleaning bills or any medical problems which occur
Try drinking at least one or two glasses of water for every drink you had at the bar and skip the aspirin. Seriously guys, this one works.
If you wake with a hangover, instead of gulping water, it should be sipped over time to rehydrate your little platelet buddies. This takes time, so drinking water while drinking is your overall, best bet.
I have taken aspirin before bed, when I was alert enough to do so. it really does help.
Aspirin doesn't do much for me, for some reason, but I suspect this is a YMMV situation.
I would just add that you do not need to use aspirin, but just any
Acetil-Salicil acid tablets, since they are all the same, you just pay 10x price for the Aspirin name
Take a quart of water. Take two aspirin. consume both by mouth. wait a few minutes for the water and aspirin to start kicking in. now go get that quart of gatorade or other electrolyte sports drink. If you have babies in the house, that bottle of pedialyte works just as well. Drink that down. If it was a really epic binge, or you are on the larger size, more water is called for.
by the time you have finished that second quart, you should be feeling lots better. But you better go use the bathroom now.
hangover is two things. All the toxic breakdown products from the alcohol in your blood are circulating around. Your kidneys and sweat glands are working hard to get rid of them, but both of these need water to work with to flush them out. Add water to your body to give them this flushing water.
The toxic chemicals secreted by your sweat glands are why someone with a hangover usually has noticeably worse body odour. get that water into you, and shower all that nasty off of you about an hour later.