by Marcus Bentley Wise

Created on: March 20, 2010   Last Updated: March 24, 2010

The simple way to avoid getting a hangover is simply do not drink too much. The problem with that is that after just one or two drinks after work you often feel relaxed. So you stay for one more, then another and soon you find that you do not care if you have had too much to drink; you are in fact drunk. And that is the problem with alcohol it dissolves away any sense of holding back and fills you with a invisible sense that you will not suffer any pain in the morning, that this time somehow you will be OK .

And to be truthfull if you drink too much then you will get a hangover of some kind no matter what you do. What you can to is try and combat what the alcohol is doing to you.

Get something to eat before you go out drinking. This helps in slowing down the effect of the alcohol a little. It will not stop it from working but anyone will tell you drinking on an empty stomach is a bad idea.

A hard thing to get round your head is that alcohol dehydrates you. So drink plenty of water with what you are drinking. This will help keep your body balanced. If not water then drink orange juice instead; this will help you as it also has vitamin C that will help you as you drink.

The other thing you can do is use your common sense and think about what you are doing. So often you hear people say, I must not drink too much red wine as it gives me a bad head in the morning, or I like gin but it does not like me. If you have drunk things like this before and you know that you had a splitting headache or were ill all the next day then do not do it again. Drink white wine or have vodka. Some drinks do seem to change the moods of some people's character. All depending on the person so learn from what has happened in the past and avoid the problems that you have had before.  

The truth is to avoid a hangover is sometimes be a little crafty in what you are doing. Once you feel the alcohol kicking in then just hold back. Get tonic water from the bar and drink that instead of an alcoholic drink. Pace your drinking with the amount of time that you have to be and the amount of alcohol that you consume. Do not get pressured into drinking more as every one else is. Just take it steady and you will be alright in the morning.

The thing is that if you are going to drink then you must realise that you will if you consume to much probably suffer some kind of hangover. Some people get hangovers easily, some hardly at all. But if you drink you will get some kind of effect on you and your body and nothing can stop it from happening.

So take it steady and think do you really want just one more. 

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