# Sure "Hangover Cure"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
**Created:** [December 27, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531 "2011-12-27T16:52:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@qazwart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qazwart)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/1 "2011-12-27T16:52:06Z")
Column: [How can I avoid a holiday hangover? - The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/487/how-can-i-avoid-a-holiday-hangover)
Of course, the best _cure_ for a hangover is not to over indulge in the first place. But, then that’s not what we want to hear.
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### Author:  [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/2 "2011-12-27T17:00:47Z")
Ooop, Cecil forgot mention about cold cola, ramen noodle soup and greasy fried chicken (in that order).
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/3 "2011-12-27T17:07:56Z")
For me, it is purely mental. No matter how bad I feel I realize that I will feel no worse.
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### Author:  [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/4 "2011-12-27T17:09:45Z")
So you never had a real hangover…
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/5 "2011-12-27T17:28:27Z")
> [@brittekland](#):
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> So you never had a real hangover…
Heck, I’m evolving outa one right now.🆒
Woke up with the taste of somebody else’s vomit in my mouth and a pounding headache. Sips of coffee stayed down and I have gradually improved since then.
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### Author:  [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/6 "2011-12-27T17:43:07Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> Woke up with the taste of somebody else’s vomit in my mouth.
That’s a thread hijack; start a thread. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/7 "2011-12-27T18:38:52Z")
Are you sure you’re not in an Inbetweeners episode?
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### Author:  [@jbaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jbaker)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2011, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/8 "2011-12-27T22:28:59Z")
The most important preventative step (short of the radical move of not drinking too much in the first place) is to drink plenty of water with your alcohol. And I’m not talking about one glass before bed; that will still leave you dehydrated. Drink several glasses of water before going to bed.
While it is not, strictly speaking, part of the hangover, one of the most detested morning-after consequences is the bad taste in your mouth. Before going to bed, rinse your mouth out with mouthwash. Just brushing your teeth will not, by itself, get all of the alcohol out of your mouth, but a little mouthwash will do so readily.
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### Author:  [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2011, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/9 "2011-12-27T23:10:10Z")
A grilled cheese sandwich or a street burrito.
DUH.
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### Author:  [@PetW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PetW)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2011, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/10 "2011-12-28T04:52:05Z")
> [@brittekland](#):
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> That’s a thread hijack; start a thread. :rolleyes:
Actually you hijacked the thread when you said he’s never had a real hangover. He merely responded to that. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2011, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/11 "2011-12-28T05:03:14Z")
> [@PetW](#):
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> Actually you hijacked the thread when you said he’s never had a real **hangover**. He merely responded to that. :rolleyes:
Oh details, details… :rolleyes:
My response was still within the parameter of the subject “hangover” as it had the word “Hangover” in it. However ‘having someone else’s vomit taste in your mouth’ is waaaaaay something other. 😛
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### Author:  [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2011, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/12 "2011-12-28T06:47:32Z")
> [@jbaker](#):
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> The most important preventative step (short of the radical move of not drinking too much in the first place) is to drink plenty of water with your alcohol. And I’m not talking about one glass before bed; that will still leave you dehydrated. Drink several glasses of water before going to bed.
This is absolutely true.
If I do have a hangover, my cure is water, gatorade or juice, ibuprofen, and something small to eat (to get the ibuprofen down). Then back to sleep.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2011, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/13 "2011-12-28T13:11:59Z")
> [@jbaker](#):
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> While it is not, strictly speaking, part of the hangover, one of the most detested morning-after consequences is the bad taste in your mouth. Before going to bed, rinse your mouth out with mouthwash. Just brushing your teeth will not, by itself, get all of the alcohol out of your mouth, but a little mouthwash will do so readily.
😕
Most mouthwash has a high alcohol content, so you would be replacing one alcohol with another. I doubt there is any residual booze causing funky morning mouth anyway.
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### Author:  [@qazwart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qazwart)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/14 "2011-12-28T15:30:15Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> Heck, I’m evolving outa one right now.🆒
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> Woke up with the taste of somebody else’s vomit in my mouth and a pounding headache. Sips of coffee stayed down and I have gradually improved since then.
Reminds me of _This is Spinal Tap_. They were talking about the original drummer who died when he _choked on vomit_, but as the band members stated, the report never said whose vomit he choked on.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/15 "2011-12-28T15:59:27Z")
> [@qazwart](#):
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> Reminds me of _This is Spinal Tap_. They were talking about the original drummer who died when he _choked on vomit_, but as the band members stated, the report never said whose vomit he choked on.
Or the reports of someone drowning in a pool of their own vomit. No way could someone fill even a standard above grounder, let alone an Olympic sized.
- this post dedicated to **brittekland** 😛
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### Author:  [@jbaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jbaker)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/16 "2011-12-29T18:02:47Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> 😕
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> Most mouthwash has a high alcohol content, so you would be replacing one alcohol with another. I doubt there is any residual booze causing funky morning mouth anyway.
My experience is that the mouthwash does help, a lot. I’m not sure what’s going on chemically. Perhaps the morning mouth is caused by nonalcoholic components of the alcoholic beverages, I don’t know.
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### Author:  [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/17 "2011-12-29T21:13:56Z")
> [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](#):
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> This is absolutely true.
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> If I do have a hangover, my cure is water, gatorade or juice, ibuprofen, and something small to eat (to get the ibuprofen down). Then back to sleep.
I’ve done my time as a degenerate dipso, and while I agree with this advice for the casual drinker, if you’re on the tail end of a multi-day bender, you’re very likely to just vomit up the water. Happened to me many a morning. I think the water content in most food should take care of the dehydrated cells in question, and the food, if of correct quality, should fend off some of the liquid excreta – rather, transform these into regular piles of shit.
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### Author:  [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/18 "2011-12-29T21:34:49Z")
I know some people go for a fry up the morning after, but I can’t even look at food until late in the afternoon or the evening after a massive pissup.
I do like chocolate milk though.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sure-hangover-cure/607531/19 "2011-12-30T00:22:51Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#):
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> I do like chocolate milk though.
Back when I was knee-walking, I found buttermilk to be an excellent physic for the morning after.