Hangover prevention.

[McGraw]

Keep eating and make sure your pee is clear before you start drinking.

Force plenty of water down before you go to bed then pee.

If you can do that more than once then great.

Don't eat sugary food or drink next day.

 

[bradUK]

3 x any codeine based painkiller and a beer. Job, jobbed.

 

[Salsa]

2x Berocca and a pint of water before bed kept me going for 14 days in Thailand. Has the added benefit that you have no idea how dehydrated you are since your pee is luminous orange anyway!

/Salsa

 

[Steve2000]

The throwing up thing is good advice. There's been a few times where I've come in, gone to bed, then ten minutes later that "about to spew" feeling has hit. Throw up in the bog, down a pint or two of water then back to bed. No hangover the next morning. Just make sure to have a big fried breakfast.

 

[Ryan-3]

And remember to wash your mouth out with some Jack Daniels. (all its fit for IMO)

 

[PapaLazaru]

Stick to a single drink all night and preferably one with low sugar.

A quality vodka (not Smirnoff) and Schweppes Slimline tonic (if you can get away with it) is a full proof method.

If it is beer you require then just stick to bottles and again stick to quality imported beer.

That and a Tesco/Boots sachet of recovery powder in the morning if you still feel a little hazy.

 

[sigma]

Just make sure to have a big fried breakfast.

So many people swear by this but it just makes me feel horrible, and I love a big fried breakfast!

 

[Participant]

1 - Eat a huge meal before you start drinking. Absolutely stuff your face until you can eat no more.

2 - Drink lots of water all through the night and afterwards before bed.

3 - Co-codamol the next morning.

 

[MarkLP]

The last wedding I went to I ended up with my head in the toilet for 4 hours on the Sunday morning. I wouldn't listen to anything I have to say

 

[tintin82]

Dioralyte rehydration salts.

Lots of water and a packet or two of this before bed. No hangover!

 

[FloppyPoppy]

Hangover prevention? Keep drinking

 

[Stretch]

There's only really 2 cures. Sleep or more booze.

 

[inogen]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylcysteine

You can buy this stuff in health food shops. It's called NAC.

 

[Cosimo]

There's only really 2 cures. Sleep or more booze.

He won't wake up for the second event to the later.

 

[Freefaller]

Before some smartass say "don't drink" that isn't an option I am planning too through choice.

I wouldn't suggest "don't drink" as it is clear you want to - but just "don't drink as much".

Still if you're going in knowing you're going to drink lots, you will end up feeling rough, cause and effect I'm afraid! You could try drinking water for every unit of alcohol - but people end up forgoing that after a while.

 

[Richeh]

There was an article on the BBC (I think) which was summarising an academic study into this exact question.

IIRC, the scientists found that the only statistically significant solution for hangovers was to drink less.

I rememered thinking I saw that article when I saw the thread title buy you've just confirmed it. Water, food etc before/after doesn't help only drinking less does. Pretty sure it was scientifically proven but drinkers gonna pretend

EDIT: Link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4552142.stm ~ not sure if that is the right article as I only read it a few months ago and that article is 10 years old.

 

[Bones]

valium

 

[postbox]

There was an article on the BBC (I think) which was summarising an academic study into this exact question.

IIRC, the scientists found that the only statistically significant solution for hangovers was to drink less.

2 twin brothers (Doctors) who drank the same amount in a week (over the course of 1 month I think) but at different rates, 1 binged in one night, the other spread out the amount over the week (RDA), both had bad effects on the liver.

Most surprising discovery was that it had nothing to do with dehydration (water obviously helps anyway) but the hangover "effect" is more to do with your body giving you a cold / influenza type chemicals which are released when it can't deal with the excess amount of alcohol. You are basically giving yourself a cold when poisoning yourself.

 

[Liquidfox]

Just keep drinking the next morning, the first couple go down like a poop sarnie but after that you're alright. I find switching to single spirits sharpish brings me round.

 

[Devrij]

I developed this technique and it is foolproof:

Step one: fill a bottle of water and place it on your pillow. Drunk you should hopefully hit his head on it and remember to drink a load before passing out
Step two: take multivitamins before you go out. You'll be passing out lots of important minerals throughout the night
Step three: wake up and take more multivitamins and drink a lot of water, go back to sleep for an hour.
Step four (in emergencies) : if you still feel horrendous and don't need to drive, drink ONE beer to dampen the hangover and then drink water while the multivitamins do their thing. Failing to stick with one beer, as I often did, will result in an afternoon nap followed by a colossal hangover and groggy disorientation. It's not a good habit to get into