Hangover cure: Sweating and heavy breathing

chocoholic
By chocoholic

Happy New Year QL... Have fun on the treadmill tomorrow! :P

New Year’s revelers needing a hangover remedy should ignore the conventional wisdom that advises they drink coffee or another alcohol drink, and head for the gym instead.

The body gets rid of alcohol and its toxic by-products four ways: breathing, via the liver or kidney and from sweating, said Aaron Michelfelder, a family physician from Loyola University Health System in Maywood, Illinois. Exercise speeds breathing, increases sweat, and moves alcohol-laden blood to the liver and kidneys more quickly.

“That’s why you should stay hydrated as well,” Michelfelder said in a telephone interview. “It takes a lot of water to process alcohol in your body.”

Drinking plenty of water, especially between every glass of wine, whiskey or beer, has another benefit -- it can reduce the amount of alcohol consumed, he said.

Michelfelder has a list of recommendations that New Year’s Eve partygoers should heed tonight to help the body grapple with the tsunami of alcohol ahead. The first is, avoid a hangover altogether, he said.

“A hangover is brain damage,” he said. “Some of it is going to heal, and some will be permanent. Prevention is the best medicine, particularly with hangovers.”

The most important is to drink moderately and slowly, at most five drinks for men and three for women over a three-hour period. Other measures include taking an anti-inflammatory pill such as ibuprofen and eating before any drinking occurs. The medicine may help avoid nerve damage from the alcohol, while the food may slow the absorption of alcohol. B vitamins may also help, he said.

Coffee Doesn’t Work

Michelfelder’s most surprising advice involves what to do after the hangover has set in. Coffee is unlikely to ease the nausea, dizziness, cotton candy head and general malaise that stems from over-imbibing, though it may lift some symptoms of depression that can set in after the warm and pleasant effects of the alcohol wear off, he said.

“Hair of the dog,” the familiar standby of getting down just one more drink in order to stymie the ill-effects of a hangover, is particularly unhelpful, Michelfelder said. It will only make you feel worse, he said.

“A hangover is similar to taking a sledgehammer and hitting your head,” he said. “Do what you need to do not get a hangover. It’s unpleasant and it’s hard on your body.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-30/to-heal-a-hangover-doctor-says-...

By anonymous• 31 Dec 2010 20:09
anonymous

you are my type of person!

By azamat• 31 Dec 2010 19:59
azamat

tomato juice, bacon, eggs, sausage, more tomato juice...

By anonymous• 31 Dec 2010 19:43
anonymous

lol..a bacon butty is bacon (lots of it fried in lard) on two slices of bread with brown sauce lol.

Those pesky calories will be got rid of with the heavy breathing and sweating lol ;-0

By chocoholic• 31 Dec 2010 19:40
chocoholic

that's what I said... sweating and heavy breathing

Seems like you could ditch all those pesky calories in the "bacon butty with brown sauce a good strong brew" and just stick with the, ahem, workout ;)

and by the way, what the heck is a bacon butty??

By britexpat• 31 Dec 2010 18:47
britexpat

Is that the Chinese Minx with the discreet tattoo ?

By flanostu• 31 Dec 2010 18:28
flanostu

honey

By Dracula• 31 Dec 2010 17:59
Dracula

Tonight forecast. Mostly drunk with a slight chance of passing out.Happy New Year!

By wirehead• 31 Dec 2010 17:50
wirehead

i usually find that drinking lots of water and peeing a lot before going to bed/passing out will lessen the effects of a hangover the next day. for me at least.

By anonymous• 31 Dec 2010 17:42
Rating: 2/5
anonymous

It's usually the 14th. (Bottle) x

By t_coffee_or_me• 31 Dec 2010 17:39
t_coffee_or_me

Best is avoid heavy drinking know your limit.

By anonymous• 31 Dec 2010 17:31
anonymous

Best hangover cure is a bacon butty with brown sauce a good strong brew, followed by a *hag and then more beer. Works for me everytime ;-)))

By britexpat• 31 Dec 2010 17:16
britexpat

I too have a terrible hangover....

Maybe if I lose some weight I could see my toes again

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