Hangovers and sea-sickness pill

Just a question to any of you that have experienced enough hangovers to be able to tell a different. Have u ever tried taking ginger or sea-sickness pills to comabt the nausea side of a hangover? any one knows how effective they really are?

(i know it wont cure the shakes and the headache etc )

Reply 1

MrSpanky

Note sure, No, & No.

Reply 2

sleepy_person!

aren't sea sickness pills designed to balance the chemicals in your brain that are responsible for your feeling of balance or something? rather than to combat the feels of nausea? Or that's what I thought...
If your looking for anti-nausea tablets you'd be better off using something like peto-bismal or something

Reply 3

lskdgjsj

ayroman03

To put it bluntly, the nausea in seasickness and the nausea caused by excessive alcohol consumption are caused by different things. In the first it's the effect of histamine, which upsets the fluids in the semicircular canal of the inner ear, and causes confusion over movement. Antihistamines (seasickness remedies) act on this. In the latter case it's just your body trying to get rid of a poison. (The room spinning phenomenon is an inner ear thing too, but has a slightly different cause). Alka-seltzer or something like that should neutralize the acid in the stomach. Alcohol suppresses the metabolism of glucose in the body (the brain's power source), so you could take glucose tablets to make up for that. You could also take oral rehydration solution (available in most pharmacies) to make up for the lost salts, fluids, &c.

The best way of course is not to get a hangover; eat well before, alternate alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks, drink plenty of water before bed, &c.

Reply 4

CheesyBeans

I have found that Alka-Seltzer actually makes me feel worse.

Reply 5

boho

i'd just go for the 4 glasses of water, a slice of bread and 2 paracetamol before you go to bed trick. works everytime! i haven't had a hangover in a long while... x

Reply 6

AndySoOoOoN

Hangovers arent bad really, once you get in from a night out, drink about 2-3 pints of water, then stay up for about an hour incase your sick, then go to bed, in the morning you wont have that much of a hangover at all, and just drink more water.

Works for me all the time. Unless im just a non-hangover type of person.

Reply 7

kpg

I find orange juice is the better than water, but obviously it's difficult to drink a couple of pints before going to bed. Not only does it rehydrate you but also replaces some of the lost vitamins in your body and the sugar gives you a bit of energy as well.

Reply 8

iceandlemon

probably entirely unrelated but i took some travel tablets before I was going on a boat with a bad hangover (it was a moment of blind panic) and all the bleuh feeling had gone by the time I was boarding the boat.
maybe i was just really lucky though. :smile: