Autumn is a day of the reunion, not only suitable for missing, but also suitable for the meeting. There are often friends who suffer from severe headaches the next day after drinking, and especially want to know if there is any “hangover cure” that can relieve various symptoms of a hangover. Everyone knows that alcohol should be moderate, but when you have to socialize and drink, you really need a diet that can help relieve nausea, restore vitality, and reduce the damage of alcohol to your body.
What effect does drinking have on body organs?
Before recommending a hangover diet, let’s popularize some knowledge about alcohol. What are the different organs of the body doing when you drink alcohol?
1. Liver: 80% to 90% of alcohol is decomposed by enzymes in the liver, which can decompose about 14g of alcohol per hour.
2. Brain: If alcohol is absorbed quickly, it will enter the brain within 5 to 10 minutes after drinking, which may lead to mood changes, and difficulty in thinking and coordination, and some people may even suffer from fragmentation.
3. Kidney: 10% of alcohol is excreted in the urine. Alcohol can diuresis. Some people always go to the toilet after drinking, which means that the body can eliminate the waste in alcohol by producing more urine. So drinking water after drinking is very important.
4. Stomach: When drinking alcohol on an empty stomach, the alcohol will be quickly absorbed by the stomach wall. At this time, the concentration of gastric acid secreted by gastric juice will also increase. The gastric acid and alcohol will stimulate the gastric mucosa together. The higher the alcohol content, the greater the damage to the stomach.
What to eat for a hangover after drinking?
See what symptoms you have
For different people, hangovers manifest in different ways, and different diets are suitable for different symptoms. Here are a few.
1. Headache
The headache after a hangover is actually a sign of dehydration, so replenishing water is the top priority.
Recommended method one: drink plenty of water. Drinking plain water, mineral water, fruit juice, or a smoothie can help you stay hydrated.
Recommended method 2: Eat bananas, avocados, strawberries, and blueberries. These fruits are high in potassium. When you are dehydrated, you not only lose water, but you also lose electrolytes. Potassium deficiency can cause tiredness, dizziness, nausea, and heart palpitations.
Recommended method three: drink coconut water. While hydrating, you can replenish a variety of electrolytes to relieve headaches.
2. Stomach nausea
Recommended method one: eat ginger. A natural anti-nausea agent that also prevents some of the inflammation and damage caused by alcohol consumption.
Recommended method 2: Eat soda crackers, steamed buns, and bread. This method can neutralize part of the gastric acid, reduce the irritation to the gastric mucosa, and relieve stomach discomfort.
3. Dizziness and fatigue
If you feel tired or dizzy persistently, it may be related to low blood sugar.
Recommended methods: porridge, bread, steamed buns. Eating a nutritious breakfast the next morning can help maintain your blood sugar levels, and eating a variety of carbohydrate-rich staple foods is recommended.
Does taking anti-alcoholic and liver-protecting tablets work?
The hangover effect of Jiejiu Hugan Tablets varies from person to person. About 60% of people can reduce severe hangover symptoms, but some people have no effect. While they won’t completely prevent hangovers or hangovers, some plant-based extracts may ease symptoms of booze after drinking. However, Liver Protecting Tablets cannot alleviate the harm that alcohol has already caused to the body, so don’t have such an idea: You can drink alcohol casually, and then eat Liver Protecting Tablets and you’re done. That’s too much damage to the body!
(1) Milk thistle and turmeric
The ingredients of this kind of liver protection tablet are some plant extracts. Studies have found that these plant extracts have anti-inflammatory effects, protect the liver, and improve the detoxification ability of liver cells.
(2) Red ginseng
Contains ginseng soap, amino acids, B vitamins, and other ingredients, which can protect the liver and promote liver regeneration and recovery.
(3) Probiotics and hangover enzymes
Contains a variety of probiotics and enzymes, which help to accelerate the metabolism of alcohol in the body.
If you want to protect your liver after drinking, I recommend eating these foods
Alcohol damages the liver the most because alcohol is mainly decomposed in the liver. Drinking a lot of alcohol will cause liver cell metabolism disorders and liver cell damage, which will lead to liver cirrhosis and even liver cancer in the long run.
Recommended food: oats, peanuts, walnuts. These foods are rich in vitamin B6. B vitamins can promote the synthesis of new liver cells to restore liver function.
Recommended food two: tomatoes, strawberries. Vitamin C can also protect the liver, and it is the most abundant in fruits and vegetables.
Recommended food three: eggs. Eat eggs the next morning after a hangover, because the amino acids contained in eggs, such as methionine and cysteine, help the liver break down acetaldehyde in alcohol.
In addition, there is another method that is easier to implement, and that is to exercise more and sweat more. The next day after drinking, drink a lot of water, drink yogurt or oatmeal, and then start exercising. The profuse sweating will help the residual alcohol to be discharged, and you will feel particularly relaxed afterward.
Finally, I would like to remind everyone: Do not drink alcohol while taking medicine, including aspirin, cephalosporin antibiotics, antihypertensive and hypoglycemic drugs, sedative and hypnotic drugs, etc., may cause very dangerous or even fatal situations such as gastric bleeding.
Rather than a hangover, drink in moderation. The “Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022)” recommends that no matter whether you are a man or a woman, your daily alcohol intake should not exceed 15g of pure alcohol, that is, no more than 150ml of red wine, 30ml of white wine or 300ml of beer per day.