The best way to avoid a hangover is to limit your drinking the night before or you could try eating a few bananas before you hit the bar. The potassium in the banana and its complex carbohydrates has a rehydrating and coating effect on the intestines, helping you recover faster from the alcohol excess.

Another pre-hangover helper is water. If you drink one glass of water for every glass of alcohol, you will be much less likely to suffer severe effects–and you will to busy heading to the bathroom to drink too much! But if you are reading this, it’s probably too late for those cures.

Assuming you are battling a hangover, water is still one of the best cures. Much of the resulting problems come from the fact that alcohol dries you out and you need to rehydrate yourself.

Orange juice is among the commonest of home remedies for hangovers. It performs the function of rehydration with great intensity and the Vitamin C acts as a counter to that nauseous feeling. You can combine this with boiled or scrambled eggs and lightly toasted bread. The protein from eggs helps the liver to filter the toxins of alcohol faster while toast has a charcoal-like effect, preventing bloating or vomiting caused by alcohol.

Another idea that worked for me recently is ginger tea. Just a couple of slices of fresh ginger steeped in hot water is all it takes to alleviate that typical head-splitting feeling induced by hangovers, and it helps the stomach digest the alcohol better without suffering cramps.

If you want something that’s like medicine, use any granulated antacid that you can easily consume by just pouring it in a glass and letting it fizz. This eases the body ache caused by hangover. Most antacids contain some form of sodium bicarbonate that helps to neutralize the excessive acidity caused by consuming too much alcohol.

Hope you feel better fast!

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