The Hangover - Read what Dr Zach has to say about hangovers and then discard it and listen to what ChilliSauce has to say on the matter.
The best way to cure a hangover it to prevent an hangover - Don't over drink. Dr. Zach Scheinest.
Well Dr Zach, until you've had a room spin or a stealth hangover you have not lived. I say to hell with not over drinking and hello to trip to the porcelain shrine. First you need to know what type of hangover you are dealing with to understand the cure.
Room Spin - one of the deadliest types of hangover and it will normally start well before you awake resulting in loss of balance and vomiting. Can cause death if one chokes on their own vomit or if trying to navigate a tight rope.
Stealth - you wake up, you feel fine, you go to work. As soon as you sit down in that important meeting it hits you. Stomach churning, dry mouth and a headache just between the eyes. These are all symptoms of stealth hangovers, untreated it may result in you flipping your lid and subsequently being sacked after you up chuck on the boss.
Male Hangover - one of the milder hangovers resulting in nausea at the sight and smell of any food that you mates eat. When suffering from Male Hangover it heightens the awareness of those around you that you are suffering and they react by passing that bacon butty under your nose.
Female Hangover - this is bought on by your partner being embarrassed the previous night by your actions and you will now have to pay. They will find a volume control on everything and turn it up. Even though you have read the vacuum cleaner instructions from cover to cover you are unable work out how they have managed to turn it up as it is definitely louder today compared to yesterday.
Now you have an understanding of the basic hangover how do we cure it.
Dr Zach's idea of prevention is not a bad idea, by drinking equal measures of water to alcohol will reduce the risk of getting a hangover, but will increase the trips to the toilet overnight.
A far better idea is to buy the essentials for that morning after. If you are suffering from a Room Spin that I'd recommend sipping cool boiled water mixed with a small amount of salt and sugar. Do not try to sleep rather sit near a toilet as you will inevitably be sick. Once the room stops spinning and you have stopped vomiting then increase the amount of plain water you drink over several hours. When recovered sleep to awake and eat chocolate.
Stealth hangovers are hard to cure, avoid coffee, tea etc. a better idea is peppermint tea. Also eat ready salted crisps, don't get the low fat ones the fat and salt will help balance your sugar levels while the tea will calm you stomach.
Male hangover are very easy to cure, vomit all over whoever is teasing you and then consume McDonald/BK fries and drink a milk based drink.
Female hangovers, the best way to cure this is to take the dog for a walk and to take two aspirin before you go. When you return take the lead off the dog and then go to the pub. You may not be married by the end of the day but you will feel a lot happier.
To surmise - Water, French fries, peppermint tea, aspirin, chocolate, water salt sugar solution, crisps and milk is all you will need to cure those hangover blues, if you can stomach it I'd also recommend a hot sausage and bacon roll with lashings of Tabasco sauce on it. I would not recommend the hair of the dog as you are only putting of the inevitable.
