Making hangovers more tolerable (Hangover Prevention, Cures & Advice)

Member Name: Thatguystu

Product:	Hangover Prevention, Cures & Advice
Date:	26/06/02 (56 review reads)
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Advantages: You might not have heard of these "cures" before, allows you to have a good night out with less worries about the morning

Disadvantages: You'll still feel it a bit

I won't bother spouting the usual advice that the best way to avoid a hangover is through moderation the night before. I want this column to provide hangover "cures" that you may not already have heard.

Firstly, one of the main causes/reasons of a hangover is dehydration. I'm sure you've heard this before. Anyway, try to combat dehydration by staying up for an hour or two after getting back to your home. This way, you can get a decent amount of water inside you without needing to down a pint of it. (Water, that is!)

Staying up for a couple of hours will also push back the time in the morning when you are probably going to wake up. If you wake up later, the worst of your hangover will hopefully have passed while you are in your semi-comatose state. If you know a couple of days in advance that you'll be drinking quite heavily, depriving yourself of a little bit of sleep (by having one or two hours less than you usually do) for two nights before will also allow you to sleep off more of the hangover after you've had a skinful.

Take a pint of water to bed with you (in a lateral sense!). If you then do wake up, a quick gulp should re-hydrate you and allow you to get back to sleep quicker without needing to get up and stagger to the taps.

Have a slice of dry bread, and also take one with you to leave next to your bed. If you ever wake with a taste of whatever you've been drinking, a couple of bites of bread can remove this unpleasant taste. This also stops you needing to make it to the kitchen when feeling really rough; additionally the mere act of walking a few yards to wherever food is kept will alert your body to a new day and it will then be harder to get to sleep.

OK, so some of these were not cures in the exact sense, but I hope they go some way to allowing you to have a great night out that leads to a hangover-free day after.

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