Alcohol for many Russians is just as an indispensable companion of the New Year as the Snow Maiden for Santa Claus. Drinking makes conversation easier, urinating more often, and in the morning comes reckoning for how good it was the day before.
So that your New Year holidays will not go to the accompaniment of groans due to headaches and general ill health, we present the top 10 most effective home and medications for a hangover.
Important: Each of the following remedies has contraindications, ranging from individual intolerance when it comes to home remedies, and ending with side effects and health contraindications when it comes to medicines.
Carefully read the instructions for your favorite hangover remedy before you buy it!
The most effective home remedies for a hangover
5. Bananas
Bananas deliver potassium to the body - an electrolyte that we lose when we sweat or write. Drinking alcohol upsets the electrolyte balance in the body, and greatly reduces potassium levels.
Bananas also contain vitamins C and B6, which help neutralize free radicals that negatively affect the liver after drinking alcohol.
There is an excellent anti-hangover home 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 why you need bananas, you already know.
4. Chicken Soup
A hot bowl of soup after a stormy night may be the perfect solution to all your hungover troubles.
Chicken broth is rich in sodium, which, along with potassium and chlorine, is the main electrolyte in the body. It also contains potassium, vitamin B2, vitamin B6 and many other beneficial substances.
3. Mineral water without gas
With a hangover, your body needs two primary things: restoring the acid-base balance and getting rid of dehydration.
And with that and with another, alkaline mineral water, for example, Borjomi, will perfectly cope. Just before drinking, release gas from it so as not to irritate the gastric mucosa (it already got pretty much from alcohol) with a portion of carbon dioxide.
Another popular recipe for a hangover: a glass of mineral water in which juice of 1 lemon is added - a natural source of vitamin C. This simple remedy perfectly helps with thirst and reduces the intensity of the symptoms of poisoning. Although adding lemon may not be the best solution if you have gastritis or other problems with the gastrointestinal tract.
2. Exercise
And this item of the selection of effective remedies for a hangover can cause outrage among many readers. Exercise when your head hurts, feel sick, and it seems like you are dying? Yes, at first glance, exercise and a hangover never go hand in hand. But did you hear the expression “opposites attract”?
A jog or other warm-up in the fresh air will help improve blood flow and “clean” your head. The endorphins that are produced during exercise will make you feel better. And then toxins will come out of you. You can’t run, at least walk fast, move - this is the only way to quickly remove the general malaise from a hangover.
1. Cucumber or cabbage pickle
Inexpensive and, perhaps, the most effective and proven remedy for a hangover. And all because these liquids are a source of dissolved salts and electrolytes, substances that regulate the movement of water molecules in cells, affect blood coagulation and perform many other important functions.
And a glass of cabbage or cucumber pickle (but not a marinade in which there is vinegar) is essentially the first step to normalizing water-salt metabolism in the body. And cabbage brine also contains succinic acid, which is necessary for the normal process of cellular respiration. Why is it important with a hangover? Because the cells of the brain and other body tissues after intoxication suffer from oxygen starvation.
After drinking 1-2 glasses of brine, one can already begin full hydration of the body - drink water or fruit drink.
The best medicines and dietary supplements for a hangover
5. Alka-Seltzer
Price - from 372 rubles
One of the most popular hangover medications contains citric and acetylsalicylic acid, as well as 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 person suffering from a hangover, because it will quickly relieve headache and muscle pain and relieve heat.
And sodium carbonate, in turn, neutralizes hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
4. Limontar
Price - from 99 rubles
These inexpensive pills contain succinic acid. It is a regulator of energy metabolism, and has a complex effect on the body. Including:
- antioxidant;
- improves antitoxic function of the liver;
- protects cells from hypoxia;
- increases the secretion of gastric juice and increases appetite;
- contributes to the speedy removal of xenobiotics from the body - chemical compounds alien to the body.
And these are far from all the beneficial properties of succinic acid. You can use this tool not only for the treatment of a hangover, but also for its prevention. For this purpose, you need to take 1 tablet of Limontara 20-60 minutes before taking alcohol.
3. Aspirin
Price - from 80 rubles
The easiest hangover cure for headache. Its main active ingredient - acetylsalicylic acid - also thins the blood, preventing blood clots in the vessels, relieves fever and has an anti-inflammatory effect.
Remember that you must drink aspirin with water, and in no case - beer or another alcoholic drink.
2. Drink OFF
Price - from 126 rubles
The manufacturer added several useful components to this dietary supplement:
- succinic acid;
- citric acid;
- ginger extract;
- licorice extract;
- ginseng extract;
- guarana extract;
- mate extract;
- eleutherococcus extract.
DrinkOFF relieves such symptoms of a hangover as nausea, dizziness, trembling in the body, fatigue and loss of coordination. But it is best to take this remedy immediately after they feel that they have exceeded their dose of alcohol, then the improvement comes very quickly (according to reviews - after 10-15 minutes).
You can also take capsules before bedtime, then a hangover in the morning may not come at all.
1. Medichronal
Price - from 2700 rubles
Reviews on this tool are so good that they even cause distrust. I mean, Medichronal seems to be acting too efficiently to be true, right?
Fortunately for those suffering from a hangover, this drug really helps to get rid of such unpleasant symptoms of a hangover as a headache, lack of appetite and a feeling of weakness throughout the body in a short time. It contains three active ingredients:
- Glucose monohydrate: helps hydrate the body and has a detoxifying effect. It eliminates inadequate hydration (dehydration) problems such as fatigue and headaches, and will usually make you feel better.
- Glycine: this amino acid and neurotransmitter reduces psychoemotional stress, makes you more relaxed and increases mental performance.
- Sodium formate (or, longer term - sodium salt of formic acid): in the food industry it is used as a preservative, prolonging the life of products.
Does Medichronal have any catch? Of course there is. This is its high price.
