Yeah, sulfites. I used to think you’d only find 'em in cheap wine, but I was at the Chicago Chop House the other day and this friend of mine expensed an expensive bottle of vino for us and much to my surprise, there they were “contains sulfites.” Who’d have guessed.
Damn it Sentinel I don’t wanna know all that !!
Party pooper !
Nay sayer !!
Sheesh, where the hells my whiskey ?
You drive me to drink. 
While Sentinel make some very good points about how taking B’s, Multi minerals, and lotsa fluids before an after the fact will help patch you up. I wouldn’t go with the Excedrin route, first off it has caffeine in it, which is not great when trying to get to sleep, and healthanswers has this to say:
acetaminophen:
Aspirin:
Ibuprofen:
I’ll take the stomach irritation over the bonus liver damage. Unfortunatly, for the more sever hangovers, extra stomach irritation almost always lead to long chats with uncle John.
Cheers
Sentinel said
I have often wondered about this. How does alcohol get into one’s sweat? I can’t imagine how alcohol in the blood passes through the walls of the circulatory passages and gets into the sweat glands.
I always thought that you smelled like booze more because of your breath hanging around you.
Anyone care to explain.
And thanks for a) a great explanation of the physiological effects of booze and b) for ruining my fun. Now i will feel really, really guilty if I ever muster the courage to drink again.
a hard-drinkin’ friend said if he had a bad shaky hangover the next day he would take a slug of something lilke Benadryl or Nyquil, it would soothe his nerves and he would go to sleep for a while and wake up feelling much better. But Nyquil has acetominaphen in it which can be dangerous, so don’t take that!
Here’s some info on alchohol’s effect on the brain:
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert/medicine/medicine45/medicine45.html
I’ve read that all American vodka is virtually identical, sometimes the cheap and expensive brands come from the same vat. Marketing and advertising are the main differences.