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Curing Your Hangover

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By smithshannon73


How to cure your hang over

 If you have a hang over you obviously drank too much. It does happen sometimes. What most people do not realize is that hang overs are caused by dehydration. Alcohol is a diuretic. Hang overs are caused when your bodies fluids are to low to maintain themselves. A hang over is a hang over no matter who you are. There are very simple solutions to your hang over. However everyone knows how to cure dehydration, right. Drink more fluids. Preferably electrolyte solutions if you can find it, willing your not to hung over to go to the store. There are several methods that people will swear by to cure your hang over. Some of them include absolutely ridiculous recipes and concoctions. Like a witches brew. I have even seen some I wouldn't give to a dead man mind you.

I have listed below some fact and fiction hang over cures for you to check out. Keep in mind everyone's hang over is different so they will have a different effect for each of us. Trying out these different methods though when you have a hang over is probably the best bet for all of us providing that you are not drinking yourself into oblivion to find a hang over cure.

Fact

Hang overs are caused by dehydration so it would make sense to rehydrate your body to cure your hang over:

use an electrolyte solution like Gatorade or pedialyte

Make your own electrolyte solution:

2 tsp salt and tsp of sugar in a glass of water preferably 16 to 32 ounces depending on your taste.

Take Midol or Excedrin: both contain caffeine and will cure your hang over head ache, remember do not try this if you have allergies to their contents.

Hair of the Dog: The only reason this works is because you are putting yourself back into the altered state you left and it is only a temporary fix. I can promise your hang over will be worse if you do this.

Black Coffee: Coffee as black thick and dark as you can get it or stand it. This works because coffee contains caffeine and will give you some pep and cure the hang over head ache.

For more useful hangover cures try this site: http://cocktails.about.com/od/healthsafety/ht/hngovr_rmdy.htm

Fiction

 This is the stuff you really do not need to try to fix your hang over. It either will not work or it will make you sick.

Drinking a raw egg: this is not a hang over cure its a trip to the ER for salmonella poisoning.

Hang over Head stands: this is a mockery of yoga, and the person you may have heard it from  is laughing at you right now.

Drinking milk: Yuck with a hang over its gonna make you sick. The milk could actually sour in your stomach and cause nasty aftermath.

A hot shower: this could potentially be dangerous even lethal. It has the same dizzying effect of hopping in a hot tub with a hang over. It doesn't do anything but give you the spins.

 

 

 In conclusion the best advice I could ever possibly give you for a hang over would be not to drink in the first place or at lease keep it modest. Having a hang over is miserable altogether. do not under any circumstance eat or drink anything that is not edible. I have heard of people eating vapor rub for hang overs. Some brands of vapor rub contain camphor and other ingredients, which are members of the nightshade family, herb wise. Night shade is poisonous even deadly. I believe I read that is what Romeo and Juliet used........correct me if I am wrong.

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