Alcohol for many Russians is as indispensable a companion of the New Year as the Snow Maiden is for Father Frost. Drinking makes conversation easier, urinating more frequent, and in the morning comes the reckoning for how good it was the night before.
So that your New Year's holidays do not go to the accompaniment of groans due to headaches and general ill health, we present the top 10 most effective home and medication for a hangover.
Important: each of the remedies described below has contraindications, ranging from individual intolerance when it comes to home remedies, to side effects and health contraindications when it comes to medicines.
Carefully read the instructions for the hangover remedy you like before buying it!
Most effective home remedies for a hangover
5. Bananas
Bananas provide the body with potassium, an electrolyte that we lose when we sweat or pee. Drinking alcohol disrupts the electrolyte balance in the body and severely lowers potassium levels.
Bananas also contain vitamins C and B6, which help neutralize free radicals that can damage the liver after drinking alcohol.
Here's a great anti-hangover homemade recipe: Mix 2 bananas, 2 tablespoons of honey, and a glass of milk in a blender. Drink in small sips. Honey is a source of glucose, milk is a good sorbent, and you already know why you need bananas.
4. Chicken soup
A hot bowl of soup after a tumultuous night can be the perfect solution to all your hangover woes.
Chicken broth is rich in sodium, which, along with potassium and chlorine, is the body's main electrolyte. It also contains potassium, vitamin B2, vitamin B6 and many other useful substances.
3. Mineral water without gas
When you have a hangover, your body needs two primary things: restoring acid-base balance and getting rid of dehydration.
Alkaline mineral water, for example, "Borjomi", will perfectly cope with both. Just before drinking, release the gas from it so as not to irritate the gastric mucosa (it has gotten a lot from alcohol) with a portion of carbon dioxide.
Another popular recipe for a hangover: a glass of mineral water to which the juice of 1 lemon is added - a natural source of vitamin C. This simple remedy perfectly helps with thirst and reduces the intensity of symptoms of poisoning. Although adding lemon may not be the best solution if you have gastritis or other gastrointestinal problems.
2. Exercise
And this point in the collection of effective hangover remedies may cause resentment among many readers. Exercise when your head hurts, feels sick, and feels like dying? Yes, at first glance, exercise and hangovers never go hand in hand. But have you heard the expression "opposites attract"?
A jog or other outdoor exercise will help improve blood flow and clear your head.The endorphins that are produced during exercise will make you feel better. And with sweat, toxins will come out of you. You cannot run, at least walk at a brisk pace, move is the only way to quickly relieve the general malaise from a hangover.
1. Cucumber or cabbage pickle
Inexpensive and, perhaps, the most effective and proven hangover cure. This is because these fluids are a source of dissolved salts and electrolytes, substances that regulate the movement of water molecules in cells, affect blood clotting and perform many other important functions.
And a glass of cabbage or cucumber pickle (but not a marinade, which contains vinegar) is essentially the first step towards normalizing water-salt metabolism in the body. And the cabbage brine also contains succinic acid, which is necessary for the normal process of cellular respiration. Why is it important for a hangover? Because the cells of the brain and other body tissues after alcohol intoxication suffer from oxygen starvation.
After drinking 1-2 glasses of brine, you can already begin to fully hydrate the body - drink water or fruit drink.
The best drugs and dietary supplements for a hangover
5. Alka-seltzer
Price - from 372 rubles
One of the most popular hangover medications contains citric acid, acetylsalicylic acid, and sodium bicarbonate.
The first is responsible for ensuring that the drug is absorbed by the body as soon as possible.
Acetylsalicylic acid is the best friend of a hangover sufferer, because it quickly relieves headaches and muscle pain and relieves fever.
And sodium carbonate, in turn, neutralizes the hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
4. Limontar
Price - from 99 rubles
These inexpensive tablets contain succinic acid. It is a regulator of energy metabolism, and has a complex effect on the body. Including:
- antioxidant;
- improves the antitoxic function of the liver;
- protects cells from hypoxia;
- increases the secretion of gastric juice and increases appetite;
- promotes the early elimination of xenobiotics from the body - chemical compounds alien to the body.
And these are not all the useful properties of succinic acid. You can use this tool not only to treat a hangover, but also to prevent it. To this end, you need to take 1 tablet of "Limontar" 20-60 minutes before taking alcohol.
3. Aspirin
Price - from 80 rubles
The easiest hangover headache remedy. Its main active ingredient - acetylsalicylic acid - also thins the blood, preventing thrombus formation in blood vessels, relieves heat and has an anti-inflammatory effect.
Remember that aspirin must be taken with water, and never with beer or other alcoholic drink.
2. DrinkOFF
Price - from 126 rubles
The manufacturer added several useful components to this dietary supplement at once:
- succinic acid;
- citric acid;
- ginger extract;
- licorice extract;
- ginseng extract;
- guarana extract;
- mate extract;
- extract of eleutherococcus.
DrinkOFF relieves hangover symptoms such as nausea, dizziness, tremors, fatigue and loss of coordination. But it is best to take this remedy immediately after you feel that you have exceeded your dose of alcohol, then the improvement comes very quickly (according to reviews - after 10-15 minutes).
You can also take capsules before bedtime, then the hangover in the morning may not come at all.
1. Medichronal
Price - from 2700 rubles
The reviews for this tool are so good that they even cause distrust. I mean, Medichronal seems to be acting too effectively to be true, right?
Fortunately for hangover sufferers, this drug really does help get rid of unpleasant hangover symptoms such as headaches, lack of appetite and feeling of weakness throughout the body in a short time. It contains three active components:
- Glucose Monohydrate: Helps hydrate the body and has a detoxifying effect.It fixes problems of insufficient hydration (dehydration), such as fatigue and headaches, and tends to make you feel better.
- Glycine: This amino acid and neurotransmitter reduces emotional stress, makes you calmer and improves mental performance.
- Sodium formate (or, for a longer name - sodium salt of formic acid): in the food industry it is used as a preservative, prolonging the life of products.
Does Medichronal have a catch? Of course there is. This is its high price.