Top hangover cures?

[cecilia]

something tells me i'll be one of the few sober people here tomorrow.
 :-D

[AccyD]

cecilia wrote:
something tells me i'll be one of the few sober people here tomorrow.
 :-D

I will be sober too!  :cry:

I'm too ill to be drinking.

[cecilia]

well, i'll be damned!
Scottish Wine!!!

[T_Bone]

cecilia wrote:
something tells me i'll be one of the few sober people here tomorrow.
 :-D

I'll be sober, but I'll probably have legendary heartburn from my wife's red hot hopping john.

( :lol: Do yankees know what hopping john is? That could sound funny if not)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

mdma wrote:
Chain smoke your way through a pack of 20 fags until you're stomach feels ready for a great big bacon and runny egg butty with lots of brown sauce.

good advice, apart from the fact that not everyone smokes fags...



@T-Bone
yes that sure does sound strange,
who's that John guy anyway?

[whabang]

The best hang-over prevention is to have a glass of water for every second drink you have.

I've only been hung over once, but thanks to my girlfriend I managed to make it go away by copious ammonts of ice-cream! :-)

[Cymric]

KennyR wrote:
Yep, hangovers are partly caused by toxins produced by the breakdown of alcohols in the liver. Ethanol is a poison, most people don't seem to realise that.

Since you are a chemist, consider the following: ethanol is readily transformed into ethanal, which is the nasty chemical your body doesn't respond well to---and also causes hangover symptoms. (I was taught however that dehydration is the main cause of heangovers.) Ethanal is catalytically broken down by means of a copper-containing peptide. Imagine what would happen if you fed a heavy drinker a small dose of a very strongly copper-complexing compound, say EDTA or a derivative.

[redrumloa]

Wayne wrote:
Since I'm the old guy here, let me just say that you should all enjoy yourselves tonight, but don't get stupid.  We would prefer to have all of our users alive on 1/1/2005.

Dammit Wayne you beat me to the punch;-)

Yeah I found the perfect cure for a hang over, stop drinking;-)

[zudobug]

Yeah I found the perfect cure for a hang over, stop drinking

:-)

That one has worked for me too. Although I did have a wee nip of something toxic on new years eve.

But failing that, keep drinking! I'm surprised no-one has mentioned hair of the dog yet (or if they have I apologise for not spotting it.) That has also worked very well for me in the past.  :-P

I haven't said it before so I will now, nappy yew hear everyone! Lets hope 2005 has some good stuff in it.

-zudo

[KennyR]

Cymric wrote:
Since you are a chemist, consider the following: ethanol is readily transformed into ethanal, which is the nasty chemical your body doesn't respond well to---and also causes hangover symptoms. (I was taught however that dehydration is the main cause of heangovers.) Ethanal is catalytically broken down by means of a copper-containing peptide. Imagine what would happen if you fed a heavy drinker a small dose of a very strongly copper-complexing compound, say EDTA or a derivative.

I know EDTA is already used in medicine to complex with metals, in coronary patients at least, so it could work in theory. Supposing it actually did work and it inhibited the action of the enzyme responsible for oxidising ethanol. The overall effect on the body from ethanol then would be much the same as for other members of the primary alcohol family, which we have no enzymes to protect against: that is, blindness, CNS damage, liver scarring, and probable death. Dying is one way to cure a hangover I suppose...

[Speelgoedmannetje]

zudobug wrote:
But failing that, keep drinking! I'm surprised no-one has mentioned hair of the dog yet (or if they have I apologise for not spotting it.)

Don't forget the egg and the pepper :-)

[CU_AMiGA]

HHHMMM! A little late for me now, as i was wasted during the New Year, but will follows these tips next time. Cheers guys! :-)

PS: Sumner7 has a very bad drinking problem (and he isn't even 18 yet!), anyone can help him?!

Regards,

[bloodline]

CU_AMiGA wrote:
HHHMMM! A little late for me now, as i was wasted during the New Year, but will follows these tips next time. Cheers guys! :-)

PS: Sumner7 has a very bad drinking problem (and he isn't even 18 yet!), anyone can help him?!

Regards,

I too once had a drinking problem, but now I can get hold of Alcohol whenever I want :-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

CU_AMiGA wrote:
PS: Sumner7 has a very bad drinking problem (and he isn't even 18 yet!), anyone can help him?!

Regards,

I could help him (with the use of a strait jacket)
but seriously, on that point, only he can help himself (he should become concious that he has a very big problem).

[CU_AMiGA]

Well, he has plenty of booze he smuggled from the New Year party into his house (which his parents wouldn't approve). He sees it as a blessing in disguise.

Regards,
 

[sumner7]

Be quiet CU_AMiGA! You took home 10 bottles of Stella, so you can talk!

And BTW, I do NOT have a very big problem. I have not drunk anything since Saturday.