Myths and truths about hangovers

A hangover occurs after alcohol poisoning. Physically, it is manifested by headache, dry mouth, sweating, nausea and diarrhea. The nervous system the day after a noisy holiday becomes hypersensitive, light and sound begin to irritate, everything seems too bright and too loud.



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Inside the body at this time there is a fight against ethanol. It is more than enzyme systems can process. Ethanol blocks the work of the antidiuretic hormone, which is responsible for preserving vitamins and nutrients in the body. Therefore, along with urine, a person loses a lot of potassium, sodium, glucose and becomes even more weakened.



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During the breakdown of ethanol, acetic aldehyde is formed, which causes nausea, vomiting, vasodilation, increased breathing. All this is quite unpleasant and unsafe.



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How to effectively get rid of a hangover? The best way to avoid the effects of alcohol is to not drink. But if it happened, do the following: provide yourself with bed rest, plenty of drink, fresh air and taking a medication with an absorbent effect that absorbs and binds harmful substances and removes them from the body.

There are many myths about alcohol and getting rid of the consequences of taking it, which many people still believe. Dispel them.



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Myths about alcohol intake and hangover

1. You can't lower the degree.
   A more severe hangover in those who mix drinks made from different raw materials, rather than different fortresses. Whiskey and vodka are made from cereals, cognac and wine from grapes. From wheat vodka in the body will be only acetic aldehyde, and from calvados, which is made from apples, will also be methanol - a product of the breakdown of apple pectin. Mix them, and in the stomach will disintegrate two types of alcohol.
   
   
   
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2. We need to hang out.
   You don't have to throw a wedge out unless you're dependent on a green snake. In a healthy person with a hangover, enzymes work at maximum capacity. When the next dose of ethanol enters the body, acetic aldehyde is formed again, which it will need to be removed.
   
   
   
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3. Butter on an empty stomach will help not to get drunk
   If you eat too much oil, the liver will work at its limit, breaking down large amounts of both alcohol and food. But at the same time, it is also not advised to drink on an empty stomach, it would be good to eat a piece of bread, it perfectly absorbs liquid. And in everything to know the measure, and in alcohol, and in food.
   
   
   
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4. Pickled vegetables and cucumber brine will save from a hangover
   Unless they have vinegar in them. An additional dose of vinegar in addition to acetic aldehyde will only aggravate the situation. And if there is no vinegar, then brine will help restore the water-salt balance.
   
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Read more about how to quickly get rid of a hangover, and about the dangers of alcohol in our articles. Follow the links.