We used to top off a banana bag with a little bag of D50 and supplemental O2 via nasal cannula. You could always filch a replacement from the ER on your next visit.
As a recovery mechanism from a punishing night out -- like, say, a volunteer firefighter's bachelor party -- I highly recommend it!
Yeah. I had to read it 5 times. My brain was telling me that there was no evidence that a hangover is a cure for work. Duh! I thought. Hangovers only make work worse not better.
I read it the same but with the idea being a hangover incentivizes you to call in sick for work thus “curing” the affliction you have with working. Except it doesn’t cure the affliction as you still have to go in eventually.
Worth noting that this is a review of other studies. They don’t find that these things don’t work, they find that the other studies are so low quality as to be not highly meaningful evidence one way or the other.
> Although some studies showed statistically significant improvements in hangover symptoms, all evidence was of very low quality, usually because of methodological limitations or imprecise measurements.
I would be very surprised if naproxen (a common NSAID, and one of the cures in question here) doesn’t help hangovers somewhat, but the authors are correct that no high-quality research looks into this.
Edit: this is sort of one of the unfortunate things about academic research culture. If I’m a good researcher, I could spend time looking into whether NSAIDs help with hangovers… but there’s already a bunch of lower quality research that does the same thing, and it’s very probable that my results would align with everybody’s priors (no surprise that a painkiller and anti-inflammatory would help with hangovers, which are in large part pain and inflammation) - so getting a ton of citations off it would be unlikely. So there’s really no incentive to spend a lot of time doing high quality research on something like this.
Isn't the key to just drink as much water as possible before passing out? I've always just prepared a huge bottle of water next to my bed so that I would hopefully chug it before I go to sleep.
Works for me. Except I drink water while I'm drinking beer. Something like 1 drink of water to 3 or 4 drinks of beer. But I'm also at home, on the computer drinking and not out partying. So I don't know how well it translates to being outside the house.
Gotta be careful with amounts here -- one time I drunkenly drank tons and tons of water to the point I actually dehydrated myself even further than the alcohol would've. Worst hangover of my life.
Probably you drank way too much "pure" water, and you upset your salt balance. Most likely if you had had some salts in the water you would have been better off (if not fine).
Kingsley Amis, the novelist, has some excellent essays on drinking. He claimed that if you mostly drank large quantities of neat spirits, a large proportion would end up passing undigested out the other end, but by drinking water you were diluting it to the perfect concentration for max alcohol absorption.
Well, lots of people regard coca-cola as helpful with hangover. Now I wonder if this is a remnant from the time when the drink actually contained the stuff.
I've been using Dihydromyricetin (Ampelopsin) for a couple of years (Morning Recovery + standalone pill form). And can feel a noticeable difference every time, to the point where I won't go out without. But is more of a relief than a cure. It is like having hangovers as in my twenties (I'm in my forties now).
I also stack up with some extra electrolytes before going out, as well as the next day. I get a horrible brain fog that can can easily last for 4-5 days if I don't.
Finally, I try to do mostly daytime drinking, to avoid ruining my sleep too much.
Works better than an IV because your digestive system can absorb it faster.
Basically one liter of water, 2 tablespoons (25g) of sugar, 1/2 (5.7g) teaspoon of salt. Make sure the salt to sugar ration is correct. It's ok to use more than a liter, but not less than a liter.
Gatorade can be used instead, but isn't as good. Pedialyte and other preparations are a better version of it.
ÜFÜ (über Fünfzig)/50+ here, walking 82kg at 181cm. Still don't know what a hangover is, or how exactly it feels. Though I rarely drink alcoholic stuff. What I do know is the 'emergency dumping' by vomiting it out when I had too much, though that happened only about 4 to 5 times in my life. Still, even when that happened, woke up, feeling normal.
Oriental Raisin Tea is a common hangover cure in East Asia. It's not clear to me whether the relevant compounds were covered in this study, but I would love to see more exploration of how well these Asian remedies work. (I'm personally skeptical of 中医 = Traditional Chinese Medicine, but am open to being convinced otherwise.)
>(I'm personally skeptical of 中医 = Traditional Chinese Medicine, but am open to being convinced otherwise.)
The "debate" is over traditional Chinese medicine can be pretty frustrating, since in principle it's a very simple issue: did the ancient Chinese (or anyone else, really) stumble onto something that worked and was reproducible, even if they weren't able to properly articulate why it worked? A simple example ought to be the brewing of beer. Due to the need to sterilize and introduce yeast, one might imagine that a properly functioning germ theory was necessary for the brewing of beer. Of course, this was not the case, and people got quite far on trial and error.
Wild guess: NSAIDs + melatonin + famotidine before you sleep, NSAIDs + caffeine after you sleep, both with lots of water. Hard part would be having the presence of mind to take those before you knock out.
exactly, it’s funny how some people will downvote others for speaking what works for them. i’ll never understand that.
both kratom and coffee are related, kratom gets a bad rap because of headshops but people have been using it for all types of things for over 300 years with little to no issues.
there’s even some journals on it’s use with reducing some covid symptoms. not a cure but definitely seems helpful
well, they didn't test the ones that work! sheesh.