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Time to share something I learned:
We had a "Talking about Alcohol" program come to talk to our chapter - our nationals sends speakers around and you're supposed to hear from them once every four years. Anyhow, these are some things I managed to remember (it was from 10am-6pm on a Saturday and I have little to no attention span, so bear with me):
1) Water can be bad to drink if you're drunk. If you're hungover or just trying to avoid one, it's good so you don't get dehydrated. However, if you're still drunk, and have drank to the point where your body has temporarily stopped metabolizing the alcohol, it's bad. It has something to do with the concentration of alcohol in your stomach - after you've hit a certain point, your body says, "NO MORE," and the alcohol kind of chills in your stomach until your body can get to it (or you puke it up). This is not a very good place to be. If you start drinking water, it dilutes the alcohol that's sitting there waiting, and your body is tricked into thinking it can handle it again since the concentration is way down to where it was when you started drinking. More alcohol enters your system and you only get drunker. Like I said though, you have to get REALLY drunk to be at that point.
2) Hangovers are basically symptoms of alcohol withdrawal. That's why drinking more works to cure a hangover, or at least the headache/general crappy feeling of it. Won't do much for nausea. Since your body was all about metabolizing alcohol, all of a sudden it isn't there and you get a hangover. If you add some more alcohol, your body has that bit of alcohol it's looking to metabolize and you have time to readjust.
Like I said, I have a short attention span, so I could be completely wrong here, but I think this is what they said. I thought it was interesting, if nothing else.
My personal favorite cure is to stay awake until you're relatively sober. It's REALLY hard to do, but if I stay up, I'm usually ok in the morning. It's when I pass out cold that I'm hurting.
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