There are many things to try in order to feel better after excessive revelry. You now know a few things about the causes of hangover. Remember that everyone’s metabolism is different. Take the time when the occasion presents to try several of these remedies for yourself to determine which one might have the best effect for you to help you get rid of hangover. Dehydration is typically what brings about hangovers. So, the next time you choose to drink heavily from a keg, make sure to drink a minimum of five glasses of water before going to sleep or throughout the night as it goes on. If you do, you'll feel much more recovered the following crack of dawn.

1. Drink lots of liquids

One of the most painful symptoms of a hangover is the throbbing headache that you wake up with or develop shortly after waking up. This is caused in large part by the fact that drinking alcohol causes you to become dehydrated. Try to drink at least one 8 ounce glass of water for every alcoholic drink you consume. When you’re having more to drink than you normally do, also be sure to add a big glass of water to the end of the night.

2. Drink fruit juices

Besides adding to your liquid intake helping counter the dehydration effects of alcohol , fructose has been shown to speed up the metabolism of alcohol. Getting rid of the cause of the hangover, along with treating the symptoms, will speed your recovery if you’re hung over.

3. Drink along with a meal

If you remember to pace your alcoholic consumption along with a meal, that will help slow down the absorption of the alcohol into the blood stream. This won’t get rid of a hangover once you’ve gotten it. Just add this to the preventative list of drinking do’s and don’ts.

Certain types of alcohol are more incline to give you a headache.

• Certain alcohol drinks contain impurities like rum, bourbon or cognac. The more an alcoholic drink's color is dark, the more impure it is; "vodka" is one of the purest alcoholic drink. Sake remains the choice though if you want to drink more than the usual.
• Champagne and some wines loaded with sugars are the usual generators of headache.
• Certain low quality drinks contain additives that can cause asthma crisis, migraines and other undesirable effects. So better invest more money in quality drinks and avoid painful tomorrows.

Sex counts Women generally tolerate alcohol less than men. It is one of the reasons why women are asked to limit themselves to one or two drinks while men are usually limited to 2 or 3 drinks. When a woman drinks the same amount of alcohol as a man, the concentration of alcohol in her blood is higher. Intoxication comes more quickly. This vulnerability of some women to alcoholic drinks is due to 3 causes:

• Volume of a woman's body compared to that of a man is less. Proportionally, the concentration of alcohol is more in women than men.
• The body of a woman has more fat and less water than a man's body. As alcohol dissolves in water (blood in this case), it is more concentrated in women than in men.
• Alcohol is degraded more rapidly by men than women.

There is no miracle product to get rid of hangover at will. The only true cure for hangovers is time... that the alcohol takes to degrade. However there are some means to decrease the effects of the alcohol.


Change the wine.... into water!

Drinking a lot of water is the most important way to avoid acute headache and to tolerate more the alcohol. Alcohol makes you urinate more and it will make you lose a lot of water, even more if you drink it "dry". If take down a few shots of whisky without diluting it with a juice or water, then you are a guaranteed an acute headache the other day. Note that coffee can help you clear your head during a hangover but it is "diuretic" and will decrease the amount of water in your body by making you urinate more.

Eat good things

Eating a lot of salted chips or other salted snacks during a drink is not a very good idea because they will make you feel more thirsty. You will tend to drink more to get rid of the feeling of thirst. (This is one of the technique employed by many bars and discotheques which give free salted nuts or other salted products to their clients. This is not a free service but a mean to entice you to drink more.) One thing you can do is to eat a lot of protein-rich foods like meat, etc... or starchy foods. They will take longer to digest and will have a damping effect on the absorption of the alcohol by your body.

Ginseng

Take about 1000 mg to 3000 mg of ginseng before the party. You will be able to support the effect of alcohol better and your mind will be more focused without having to resort to a cup of coffee. Ginseng also helps the liver in its job to neutralize the toxic agents in alcohol. Ginseng accelerates the decomposition and the elimination of alcohol. But note that you must not take ginseng just before bed, else sleep will take a long time to arrive because the plant has a stimulating effect on the nervous system.

If you are suffering from a mighty hang over, there are a number of thing that you can do to help heal yourself. The best thing that you can do when you get up, or wake up, is to actually get out of bed. Laying in bed and sleeping usually will not help a hang over too much because when you are still drunk, you usually do not sleep to well and it is hard to sleep when you are sick. The best thing to do is to get up and take some medication. Tylenol or Advil is usually what works best for a hangover. Make sure that you get up and get your blood flowing as to purge the alcohol out of your system.

The next best thing to do when you wake up from a hang over is to get in the shower and to clean yourself up a bit. Usually this will make you feel a lot better. If you can brush your teeth and get the taste and smell of alcohol out of your system, you will start to feel a lot better. If you have not done this prior to getting the hang over, one thing that you can do when you are drinking, is to make sure that you drink a lot of water when you finish drinking. This will help you with the hangover blue and will purge your system very early on.

Although it may seem difficult, but the best way to cure a hang over is to get up and get active. If you work out or jog, this is one of the best ways to cure a hang over. Your body will metabolize the alcohol and you will not feel very ill for very long when you start to get active and work out. This is probably the best way to get rid of hang overs.

There is another way that you can get rid of hang overs, but it usually does not work as well as the above methods, and that way is to drink orange juice in the morning when you wake up from a hang over. The vitamin C in the juice usually tends to help the stomach when you are feeling ill from a hang over.

Other than these methods, I really do not know of any better ways to cure hang overs. These are the best tips to follow when asking the question how to cure a hang over.

Headaches, Irritability, Stomach pains, Nausea, Vomit are well known symptoms of those who are accustomed to alcohol. The following hypotheses have been given to explain the symptoms of a hangover:

• The headaches can be explained due to the release of a toxic substance during the degradation of the alcohol in the bloodstream, by the additives in certain alcoholic drinks or by the impurities present in some distilled alcohols.
• Nausea and stomach pains can be due to the irritation of the inner lining of our stomach.
• Alcohol is a dehydrating drink, which can amplify the symptoms linked to an over-consumption of alcohol.
• Alcohol is a sedative and if consumed in excess, can cause a state of drowsiness similar to the effects produced by sleeping pills. And like in the case of sleeping pills, it is normal to feel a feeling of nervousness and irritability when you wake up after the tranquilizing effects of the pills have dissipated.
• The consumption of alcohol increase the acidity in your body and destabilize your nervous system and decrease your reflexes.

• Continue to drink a lot of water.
• Avoid eating acidic foods to remove the load on your stomach. Foods rich in proteins and foods like chocolate, coffee (other drinks which contain caffeine like cola soda), orange juice, spicy sauces, meals based on tomatoes,etc...
• Take natural fruit juices. (Avoid orange juice because of its high acidity.)
• Even if you think this is beyond your capacity, try to eat a wholesome breakfast but which is easy to digest like toasts with honey.
• Drink a vegetable or chicken soup.
• Take an energy drink if you are feeling very tired out because it will replenish any loss of salts like sodium and potassium. Avoid drinks with caffeine content though.
• Take more ginseng.

The above methods will dampen the effects of a terrible hangover but the only efficient method to get rid of hangovers is to avoid drinking too much.