here is a thought on going to the clubs.
Hangovers; preventions and maintenance;
1) Preparing for the night.
2) During the night.
3) Before bed.
4) The morning after.
5) What drink’s - do what to your body.
Preparing for the night.
A) Eat a good meal and drink lots of water, or
even better juice and drink lots of them, and eat a multi vitamin (it will come
in handy that night and the next morning).
B) Establish safe rides: A
good D.D. (religious types are the best), taxi
or even better LIMOUSINE.
C) Have extra “hidden” cash (just
in case, and not in your purse or wallet, those could come up missing).
D) discretely ensure that
all your friends are going to be buying the “rounds” before you.
During the night:
1) Minimize your drinking: try
not to drink to excess (excessive drinking is the
number one cause of hangovers).
2) Stay with the same type of drink throughout the night: don’t mix your drink’s (beer
w/ whiskey - wine w/ mixed drinks, and so on) if you are drinking beer stick
with it, if your drinking rum & cokes stay with that, mixing adds
many more toxins for your liver to deal with, and
that means more will slip by compounding your yet to be hangover.
3) Try drinking fruit or vegetable based drink’s: its all about the vitamins, alcohol
taketh away, fruit and veggie’s putteth back. Or
alternate drinks with water.
4) Try drinking clear based liquors: the
clearer the liquor, the less toxins (or congeners), also the more filtered the
liquor, the less toxins. (the still putteth in, the charcoal taketh away).
5) Avoid smoke and smoking, or
minimize your own smoking: if you have ever woken up to stuffy
sinuses and a cemented nose, smoke and smoking
is a major factor in this. (smoking agitates your
nose causing hystamine to be produced, and blocking you up).
6) Minimize physical contact, wash
hands often: this one is obvious, but; not every
one is a clean as you are, so when you shake hands, pass glassware or borrow
something, try not to let that hand come in contact with anything that will
remotely come close to your mouth, nose or other parts of you (cross contamination)
here is a simple rule of hand - the right hand
is for them i.e.:
shaking hands, passing drinks down and so forth, the
left hand is for you i.e. holding your smoke, picking
up your glass to drink, covering your mouth when you sneeze and cough and so
forth, this simple trick and washing your hands could save you from what is
common referred to as the “bar bug” and many other, much worse things..
7) Avoid caffeine and grapefruit juice if possible: caffeine dehydrates you,
and grapefruit juice adds to the toxicity of alcohol while drinking. Try not to drink any caffeine to sober
up, it doesn’t help that much, and you pay for it dearly in the morning.
8) Try to avoid carbonation:
try to avoid carbonated beverages, the tiny bubbles
speed the alcohol into your system, and the carbonation
(CO2) that you don’t see can come out of liquid
form into a gas form in your blood stream decreasing
the amount of blood getting where it needs to be, and slows the healing process.
9) Women: be aware that you absorb alcohol 30 percent faster than
men!!!!.
10) Eat something towards the end of the night: eating slows the absorption of alcohol,
the reason this happens is that at the bottom of your stomach is the “Pyloric
valve”, when you eat something this valve
shuts so that the acids in your stomach can do their job, when their done, the
valve opens and let the food pass down, where it is absorbed through the intestinal
wall. How this helps you is that for the time this valve is closed, little alcohol
may pass. But sooner or later this valve will open
and the alcohol will hit your system.
Before bed:
1) Drink juices or water: lots,
and then a little more, remember one glass now
is worth two in the morning.
2) Taking over the counter or prescription drugs after
drinking is never a good idea: Taking them now
after a good night of imbibing is not a good idea, taking some headache remedies, aspirins, painkillers,
or sleep aids after drinking (even a little amount) could
kill you. So even if you think you getting ahead
of the game by taking these so you wont wake up with a headache, think about
it, you may not wake up at
all!!!!
3) Something to eat: this is a good idea, I
am not talking a full meal, but some leftovers may help with that completely
empty morning stomach, and if they contain nutrients
and vitamins all the better (breakfast cereal is
my favorite).Problems you may encounter:
1) Waking up during the night: this
is more common than most people think, what is happening is the alcohol that
you have drank, is now metabolizing (booze
turning into glucose), your body becomes energized and draws you out of sleep.
Not much you can do here except doing the things that you normally do when you
can’t sleep (again, pills or medications are still not a good idea). Consider warm milk.
2) Waking up to go pee: where
did you think all that liquid would go? Cure? Go
pee before you go to bed, weather you want too
or not.
3) The spins: leading scientists believe that it has something to do with the
coordination center of the brain and the middle
ear not communicating due to the fact they are now drunk as well. A
lot of people believe that it’s mind over matter here in controlling the
spins, but I find sitting upright and watching T.V. till it goes away is best,
sorry but you’ll have to wait for your ears
to sober up.
4) Nausea, throwing up, heaving and other lovely things:
what is happening here is, is that your liver is going into shock and
in an last ditch effort to save itself and save your life, it will expel the
contents of you stomach to stop the Absorption of alcohol into your body, and
the heaves are when you liver has gone into shock. At
the first sign of any these symptoms of alcohol
poisoning; you should immediately seek professional
medical attention. If you begin to succumb to the
depressive effects of alcohol poisoning (if you begin to pass out), call
911. (Better safe than sorry).
The morning after: well a good morning to you sunshine.
1) the sooner you get going, the sooner it will end:
A) The do’s:
i) Slowly: drink liquids such as juices and water. Again caffeine is not a good
idea even though it may give you a boost, it will
further deplete your internal water supply, making you feel worse. Also do not
drink liquids fast, you liver will notice the liquids and expel an equal amount
of the remaining toxins and alcohol it's holding into the blood stream, giving
you that freshly drunk feeling (and if you had a technecolor yawn the night
before, well, you might be doing it again). So go slowly, sips to start with
and things like water, apple juice, orange juice
and other vitamin rich liquids are what you need
right now, they are easy for your stomach to absorb and they freshen that wonderful
breath you now have.
ii) Slowly eat: it may sound
weird but some of the best things are fruits and vegetables, especially broccoli,
cauliflower and cabbage, yup, no kidding. Again go slow, take small bites, you
roughed up your stomach, and it’s a little tender this morning, when choosing
food taste should not be you first concern, vitamins should, a simple rule of
thumb - if mother nature made it, and it tastes
bad, it’s probably good for you.
iii) Slowly move around:
to that comfy spot, and only use the services of a “Trained
seeing eye dog” once there let your body
heal, if it’s a work day, consider calling in sick. You are injured, now
it’s time to rest.
B) The DO-NOT’s:
i) DO NOT: Drink coffee, soda, tea and other caffeinated
beverages: these are dehydrates and will make your
new hangover worse and last longer.
ii) DO NOT: Take aspirins, painkillers, some prescription
drugs, medications and other of the like: the threat
of liver poisoning is still high, if the remaining alcohol and toxins in the
liver come into contact with certain medications, the liver
will actually create a poison, then inject it into
the blood stream causing damage to many parts of you, and potentially killing
you, and it doesn’t do your stomach much good either.
iii) DO NOT: Drive: at least
until you are sober, you body will process up to on ounce of liquor, or one
glass of wine, or 12 ounces of beer and hour.
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