Alcohol Abuse Advice

How to Prevent a Hangover

Nobody wants a hangover.  It is nothing but a fuzzy event in which you are dizzy, nauseous, have a dry mouth and have a headache.  You wish you had done something beforehand to prevent the feeling of being hung over.  Fortunately, there are things you can do while drinking that can help prevent that hung over feeling and make you feel better the next morning.

You first need to be aware of the amount of water you are drinking during your drinking episode.  Alcohol dehydrates the brain and leaves you with hangover symptoms.  Try drinking a glass of water for every glass of an alcoholic beverage you drink so that you can keep yourself hydrated the whole time. Drink a lot of water before drinking alcohol and drink throughout the process and your brain will love you for it. 

Pick an alcoholic beverage you want to drink and stick to that beverage during the entire drinking episode.  Mixing drinks does give you a worse hangover so you should try and avoid this by not mixing drinks.

You should also not drink alcoholic beverages with carbonated filler drinks.  Carbonation speeds your metabolism so you feel tipsy faster.  You also cannot process the alcohol you drink fast enough and you feel more drunk more quickly than you otherwise would.  If you drink carbonated alcoholic beverages and then you drink regular, noncarbonated beverages after that, your body won’t be able to adjust to the change in alcoholic beverages and you will not process alcohol well.  All of that aids in the getting of a terrible hangover the next day.

Eat a fair amount of fried or fatty foods when you are drinking and even before you drink.  The fatty substance in the food will not be absorbed very quickly and will stay in the stomach.  It will absorb the alcohol and prevent it from rushing into your bloodstream.  This makes the effect of drinking take longer to happen and will give the body enough time to process the alcohol as it is slowly absorbed.  You will have less of a hangover as a result. 

Drink one drink of water between every alcoholic beverage so that you only drink one alcoholic beverage per hour.   This allows the body enough time to process the alcohol you’re drinking and there are less toxins built up.  Anytime you drink more than one alcoholic beverage per hour, you run the risk of toxicity, not to mention being drunk the whole time.

You can take the over the counter pills for hangovers any time you are drinking.  This can include Chaser and Sob’r Hangover Stopper.  These pills contain activated charcoal and other activated fillers that absorb a portion of the alcohol you are drinking, giving the liver a chance to catch up and remove the toxins from your body.  It will delay the time until you feel drunk but it will also help you so that you don’t have a hangover the next day.