What makes your stomach have the sick feeling? Not so much a terrible vomiting hangover, but a mild hangover, ones where you just feel queezy…
Nitpick…
What makes you nauseated during a hangover? What is nauseous to you during a hangover? “Nauseous” means “inducing nausea.”
Sorry. The nauseated/nauseous thing is one of my pet word peeves.
Not so much anymore. Usage evolves. Life goes on.
To answer the o/p–lack of water. When I choose to imbibe more than I know I should, I make sure to drink lots of water (just water–not juice, soda, etc.) both during the evening and during the night. I keep a 32 oz. bottle on the nightstand, always. Whether drinking alcohol or not. Hydration is a good thing. For me, anyway…
In pedestrian terms, your body thinks it is being poisoned and is trying to rid itself of the culprit.
My sister is right! I’m a grammar/useage dinosaur! :smack: Apologies, digglebop.
I think I’ll go drown my sorrows, and then when I wake up nauseous in the morning, I’ll drink a BIG diet coke with lots of ice. I can’t think of any particular thing that makes me queasy, though – just how to combat it.
Have you ever been dehydrated? Due to extremely friggin hot weather in Ohio this summer, I had the honor of being dehydrated on no less than three occasions. You get dizzy, you get a headache, you get nauseated. This is how the feeling of a hangover has been described to me, too. Drinking tons of water doesn’t help bring you out of this state as much as a good dose of electrolytes (Gatorade) will.
Drinking alcohol dehydrates you. And if you drink enough you don’t spend the 8-10 hours after the last drink downing water and Gatorade - you spend it sleeping. So your recovery doesn’t begin until you wake up.
I’ve never had the pleasure of being hung over, as I don’t drink that often. Usually if I DO drink that much, I spend a good amount of time afterwards drinking water so I can “flush” myself out and drive home. On the few occasions when I have drunk too much, drinking tons of water before I went to sleep made all the difference.
As for the mechanics of why being dehydrated makes your tummy upset…shrug It sure is a good way to get you to stop what you’re doing and re-hydrate, though.
Anyone know why drinking wine to excess causes a worse hangover than hard liquor? Is it the tannins, or the sugar, or something else?
lol, Wine is what actually made me start this thread, I drank almost a gallon of white wine with someone else the other night and was sick to my stomach for the most part of the day. Haha, but yeah, I was really wondering more about the mechanics of how your stomach (or is it your brain) works during hangover phase.
Does your stomach lose more cells than normal and it’s trying to replace them? Hence the sick feeling? Is it just working overtime? When it’s trying to rid the body of the alcohol, what is it doing down there? That’s what I mean. Thanks, guys !
Yeah, that’ll do it. I guess it wasn’t exactly a vintage wine either?
Drinking and going to bed without drinking lots of water or similar means your stomach gets to spend all night steeping in a mixture of stale booze and hydrochloric acid, forming all sorts of nasty chemicals that irritate your stomach lining. Couple that with all the aldehydes and other nasties in your bloodstream, and its barfin’ time.
Dehydration is definitely part of it but I believe that the products of the metabolism of ethyl alcohol are poisonous. From wiki
I would like to know if the enzymes that metabolize ethanol build up in the blood. I have noticed that the more I drink (if I am drinking for several days in a row), the less my hangover is.
How? When I’m hung over enough to be nauseous (nauseated), the last thing I want to do is put anything into my stomach. Even if it is the best way to cure the condition.
Add to that the headache, and I just want to stay in bed and die. 
From the Wikipedia article
Small Clanger, host to special forces style enzymes.
I tend to find that sticking my fingers down my throat makes me nauseous when I have a hangover.
What I also want to know is why even plain old water tastes so foul when you have a hangover. You know you should be drinking it but it just tastes… yuck.
If I remember my biochemistry correctly the problem with drinking methanol is that the metabolic pathway does not lead through acetaldehyde, which, as your wiki cite states, can be metabolised rather quickly, but through acetone, which can not.
The treatment for methanol poisoning used to be, and may still be, administration of ethanol. The pathway that would have been used to convert methanol to acetone then preferentially converts ethanol to aldehyde, and Bob’s your uncle.
I guess sooner or later they’d have to wean you off the ethanol, but if it was done slowly enough you could metabolize the acetone.
I just say “naused” and avoid conflict. 
Just about every damned thing.