Hangover cures.

[ColinJ]

If it is a serious hangover, then all you can do is damage limitation - you are stuck with it!

For a mild to moderate hangover - drink plenty of water (preferably starting before you went to bed!), eat a good breakfast and allow that to settle for a couple of hours then go out on your bike. Ride slowly until you feel properly warmed up, then attack! Burn it off ...

 

[slowmotion]

A long time ago when I was a student, a friend swore that Kaolin and Morph. could shut down even the most industrial of hangovers. It's a diarrhoea medicine comprising of china clay (I think) and an opiate. The opiate has a constipating effect and the kaolin bulks out the liquid contents of your gut. Anyway, if left undisturbed for a while, the kaolin sediments out at the bottom of the bottle leaving the morphine solution at the top. He said....

" Send your girlfriend out to the chemist to get some.....but for God's sake tell her not to shake the bottle..."

I never tried it, I hasten to add, but here it is.....

http://www.directche...re_1_33092.html

Edit: actually the blurb in that link is errr(?) crap. Morphine decreases the frequency of bowel movements, not increases it.

 

[JonnyBlade]

Get out of bed. Drink anything you can find in the fridge (not alcohol). Eat something. Go for a ride.

Job done

Much better than a banana

 

[Ashtrayhead]

A couple of slices of dry brown bread and a pint of flat Coke and water

 

[montage]

James May explains the science of hangovers

 

[themaverick]

Full fry up, bottle of freezing cold Irn Bru and out and about with cans of full fat coke spread throughout the day. Lying about just makes it worse.

 

[_aD]

I've only recently found out what causes most of the hangover symptoms - dehydration. Alcohol suppresses signals from the brain to the kidneys to retain water, so they start sending a lot more water straight to the bladder, which is why we spend so much time gazing at the walls of the loos in a pub.

While you're sleeping off your excess the body's left without enough water to keep you going and starts diverting supplies from places such as the brain and mouth/throat to others that need it more. This causes your brain to shrink a bit, pulling on the membranes, giving you a headache. You wake up with a sandpapered throat as it's also dehydrated. Drink lots of water before you go to sleep and keep a big glass by the bed so you can slurp it during the night if need be.

Also: bacon.

 

[Keith Oates]

A full English breakfast or a large bowl of Chili Con Carne, either one clears them up for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[uphillstruggler]

2 ibuprofen before bed with a pint or 2 of water. Orange juice and a stodgy breakfast followed by diet coke (flatter the better!) +/- analgesic of choice (quite like lemsip max - more caffeine!). Some sort of exercise once breakfast has gone down - Sunday London rides if I can get up in time, or just my commute to work!

+1 for that. and lots of food in the morning, usually anything i can lay my hands on.

starting to get hungry now....

 

[MontyVeda]

I used to yak to somebody who claimed "I drink 6 pints of water before bed and i've never had a hangover"

At a later date it turned out she'd never been drunk either! [sub](daft bat)[/sub]

Hair of the dog.

 

[What's that clunking?]

Tomato soup with a splash of tabasco sauce and a few slices of bread with lots of butter served with a pint of pepsi and lots of tea...

 

[Klaus]

What's your preferred method of dealing with them?

No prizes for suggesting not getting into such a state in the first place.

If you happen to be hung over in Hamburg - go to fish market first thing in the morning - herring fillet or roll-mops washed down with a glass of pils. Supposed to be a sure fire cure. Never tried it myself, I just get away with a strong cup of coffee.

 

[MickL]

sports drink, bacon butty and a large brew

 

[User482]

Sleep, paracetomol, water. Then a big fry up and some fresh air.

 

[Chilternrides]

A good glug of soda water before bed, keep the bottle by the bedside for additional sips through the night if required.

In the morning, 2 raw eggs in half a pint of milk swallowed in one gulp (it does one of two things - provides a highly nutritious easy to consume breakfast if it stays down, and if it comes up, and least you don't have to suffer that bloody awful empty belly retching pain, the one where your lungs try to exit through your mouth).

When reasonably settled, a bacon buttie followed by ice-cream.