Contents:
- Medical Video: How To Avoid A Hangover After A Drinking Session
- How to prevent hangovers
- 1. Get to know the limits of your alcoholism
- 2. Avoid alcoholic drinks with congeners
- 3. Drink lots of water
- 4. Get enough sleep
- 5. Eat a healthy breakfast
- 6. Take supplements
- 7. Choose beer, avoid liquor
Medical Video: How To Avoid A Hangover After A Drinking Session
Some people may experience a hangover after drinking alcohol. Hangovers occur when the effects of alcohol begin to disappear and you actually experience various symptoms such as headaches, thirst, dizziness, nausea, and loss of appetite. There are people who experience a severe hangover until they cannot move, there are also those who can continue their day as usual. Well, you can prevent a hangover from an overnight party with the following tips and tricks.
How to prevent hangovers
Here are ways to prevent a hangover, or at least reduce the symptoms of a more severe hangover.
1. Get to know the limits of your alcoholism
The severity of the hangover increases with the amount of alcohol consumed. So, the best way to prevent a hangover is to drink enough alcohol. If you feel uncomfortable, stop drinking alcohol.
In addition, you need to know to what extent you can drink alcohol before you get really drunk. Because the amount of alcohol consumed by everyone until they reach a different hangover.
Some people only drink a little drunk, but most people may be able to drink a lot without showing any symptoms. About 23 percent of people drink alcohol excessively, but it doesn't look like a hangover.
2. Avoid alcoholic drinks with congeners
Different types of alcohol can cause different symptoms of motion sickness. This is because some types of alcoholic beverages have higher concentrations of congeners, which are a by-product of fermentation in some alcohols.
The highest number of congeners is found in red wine and dark alcoholic drinks such as bourbon, brandy, whiskey and tequila.
Meanwhile, clearer liquors such as rum, vodka, and gin contain fewer congeners. Vodka contains almost no congeners at all. So, hangover because these drinks are rare or not so severe.
In one study, 33 percent of people who drank bourbon reported a severe hangover compared to 3 percent of people who drank the same amount of vodka.
In addition, combining various alcoholic drinks that contain different congeners can cause symptoms of a very severe hangover.
3. Drink lots of water
Alcohol is a diuretic, which makes you urinate more when you drink alcohol than drinking the same amount of water. For this reason, alcohol can cause dehydration.
Although dehydration is not the main cause of hangovers, lack of fluids can cause symptoms such as thirst, headaches, fatigue, and dry mouth.
Dehydration is very easily avoided by drinking enough water. A good rule of thumb is to drink a glass of water (or other non-alcoholic drinks) between alcoholic drinks, and not at least one large glass of water before going to bed.
4. Get enough sleep
Alcohol can interfere with your sleep. This can damage the quality and duration of sleep, while disrupting your sleep schedule. As a result, you may wake up still weak and feel more anxious. This is what makes other hangover symptoms such as headaches and nausea worse.
Getting enough sleep after drinking alcoholic beverages can help your body recover from getting drunk. The trick is to keep the room temperature cool and turn off all electronic devices (including cellphones) at least one hour before going to bed.
5. Eat a healthy breakfast
Reporting from the BBC, eating a healthy breakfast in the morning can help restore nutrients lost because last night your body has worked hard to digest alcohol. Choose foods that are rich in folate and iron to add energy, for example from chicken eggs or folate and iron fortified cereals.
6. Take supplements
Inflammation is an important reaction so that the body can repair tissue damage. Many hangover symptoms are thought to occur due to mild inflammation.
Some anti-inflammatory drugs have proven to be very effective against hangovers. Many plant foods and medicinal herbs can also reduce inflammation and help you prevent hangovers. Supplements that have been proven effective include red ginseng, ginger, and prickly pears (cactus fruit)Opuntia ficus-indica, from Mexico).
In a study conducted on 55 young and healthy people, who consumed prickly pear extract 5 hours before drinking alcohol, it could reduce the risk of severe hangover by 62 percent. Although it does not completely prevent a hangover, this can alleviate the symptoms and incidence of hangovers.
Besides supplements, you can also drink ginger tea. In addition to preventing hangovers, ginger can reduce symptoms such as nausea and vomiting.
7. Choose beer, avoid liquor
Carbonated drinks can accelerate the absorption of alcohol in the body. The faster the body absorbs alcohol, the less alcohol is released into the blood and the brain, making it drunk. Well, beer is usually more carbonated than liquor likewineor whiskey. Therefore, if you want to drink or party overnight, choose a beer that is safer than liquor.
Carbonation occurs naturally in beer because fermentation results in carbon dioxide along with alcohol. While liquor likewine,whiskey, rum, and vodka are processed by distillation (distillation) so that the carbon dioxide level is not much or not even carbonated at all.
