Although there is no real cure for a hangover, these home remedies will help you with one or two of the symptoms. Experiment with different solutions to find out what works best for you.
1. Coke - Carbonation helps nausea, liquid for the dehydration, and caffeine and sugar to make you feel a bit more awake.
2. Coffee - Same as Coke but without the fizz to help ease the nausea. Try it with honey instead of sugar since the fructose is absorbed quicker than the sucrose in normal sugar.
3. Berocca - Puts the vitamin B back in the body, as well as the big glass of water it’s mixed with. Take this before you go out.
4. Ginseng - It’s been noted that since caffeine is a diuretic like alcohol, it can actually make the dehydration worse, so try the herbal equivalent instead.
5. Vitamin C - Another thing the alcohol takes out that you’re advised to put back in as soon as possible. Drink Orange juice, tomato, a 600mg Vitamin C tablet etc.
6. Vegemite On Toast - Something in your stomach and a Vitamin B top up. The same reasons also make peanut butter a good choice, but the oily nature might make some sensitive stomachs feel a bit yucky.
7. Asprin - Attends to the headache but does nothing for the level of alcohol in your system. Don’t take Asprin before you go to sleep.
8. Bananas - Sugar in the form of fructose, and potassium, which is one of the things you lose lots of when you drink. Bananas are also a natural antacid to help with the nausea, and are high in magnesium which can help relax those pounding blood vessels causing that hangover headache. Try a peanut butter, honey and banana sandwich on white bread for the best results.
9. A Hot Bath - The heat will sweat out the toxins that are causing all the problems. You might feel woozy at first but go with it and you’ll feel better afterwards.
10. Cold Pizza - It seems to work…who knows why??
11. Chocolate Milk - The store bought kind seems to work best, due to ease of attainment (unless you blew all your money at the bar hoping to get lucky), quietness (no loud banging of the teaspoon trying to mix the homemade stuff), and ease of use (the opening is the perfect fit when you have the jitters and no messy clean up). The suggested minimum dosage is the pint ( 1/2 litre) size, though the new quart (litre) can be used for extreme episodes. Other than the rehydration factor, I find that chocolate milk offers the tummy a soothing coating for the nausea. It also repletes some of the vitamins your body is now woefully lacking. The sugars (lactose & sucrose) and salt seem to be the perfect balance of the carb/salt fix. Many women can attest to the beneficial, relatively inexpensive, and legal effects of chocolate against depression, whether physiological or psychological. Last, the flavor seems to do wonders for that ghastly “did I try to mop the floor with my tongue?” taste in your mouth. So, on your way home, stop by your convenient convenience store, head on over to the cooler, grab one more “cold one” (chocolate milk, that is), and bring it home for the morning.