Avoiding a Hangover the Morning After New Year’s Eve
The hangover, defined as: Unpleasant physical effects following the heavy use of alcohol.
That definition doesn’t seem to paint the true picture of the I-want-to-kill-myself feeling that follows a night of alcohol induced fun.
Those nights where you party so much that your memory is jogged only by those cringe worthy pictures on your iPhone the next morning. How does that happen? How does one look like an A-list celebrity the night before, but wake up the morning after face planted into a pillow, fully clothed with shoes, resembling a stray cat with red stained lips and seriously smeared eyeliner?
If that situation seems all too familiar, then you simply just drank too much or filled your flute with the wrong type of fluid. Don’t let it happen to you again! You can avoid feeling like death and frantically un-tagging embarrassing Facebook pictures if you follow the simple rules below:
- Avoid sugary drinks. Remember the recipe for a hangover is alcohol and sugar. If you stay clear of sugary drinks you will reduce the chance of a hangover. Also try to have drinks with a lower alcohol content
- Stick with clearer drinks like vodka and gin, minus the sugary mixers. The congeners in bourbon and rum are said to increase the severity of alcohol
- Drink red wine instead of white. Certain wines are less likely to give you a hangover due to their chemical contents
- Drink water after every alcoholic beverage you have. Medically speaking, a hangover is a case of dehydration. So, avoid that by consuming water
- Drink Pedialyte before bed, this drink made for children, contains electrolytes, another way to avoid dehydration
- Don’t drink and drive! Although this has nothing to do with a hangover, it would be terrible if you killed yourself, much worse someone else. Be safe! Plan your rides before the night starts.
Have a great night! Here’s to 2014!
