Good ways to fight a hangover?!

[DoTheFandango]

before you go to bed, chug a liter of water and take a multivitamin.

[stark]

No it doesn't, it absorbs it if you eat before you drink, not after. Hangovers aren't entirely dehydration either, that's a myth.

Ethanol has a dehydrating effect by causing increased urine production (such substances are known as diuretics), which causes headaches, dry mouth, and lethargy. Dehydration causes the brain to shrink away from the skull slightly.[4] This can be mitigated by drinking water or an oral electrolyte solution after consumption of alcohol

(Wikipedia)

[PaulOakenfold]

... and then they list other causes as well.

[Blood]

Take it from a Finn, Tera:

The first thing you do is try not to mix too many different kinds of drink together during the previous evening. That'll prevent your stomach going ballistic on your ass in the morning.

Secondly, like so many others here have already mentioned, drink water before you go to bed. Not just a few glasses, but as much as you can take, right up to the point where you're sick of water already. Try a litre at least.

Thirdly, EAT before going to bed if there's some time since your last meal. You're going to want to be nice and full when you close your eyes instead of being hungry.

Fourthly, sleep at least 8 hours if at all possible. Sleep is a great cure.

Finally, drink coffee the first thing when you wake up. That'll prevent a nasty headache but if you followed my 5-point program this far you're just playing it safe at this point.

This all comes from personal experience, not empirical research, obviously, so you might find that your results differ from mine. If I complete all these 5 steps it's foolproof way for me to avoid any sort of hangover. However, step 1 is usually where I tend to go wrong. I end up having too many different kinds of drink and way too much of it and if you do that there's no preventing the morning hangover (though you can still soften it with the food and the water).

[genocidal]

The first thing you do is try not to mix too many different kinds of drink together during the previous evening. That'll prevent your stomach going ballistic on your ass in the morning.

That's a myth, which is spread mostly by people who don't understand that liquor contains a lot more alcohol than beer or wine. I never understood the mixing different liquors bit though, that shit really doesn't matter.

Thirdly, EAT before going to bed if there's some time since your last meal. You're going to want to be nice and full when you close your eyes instead of being hungry.

Eating while you're drunk before you sleep is cruise control for obesity. Generally because you tend to eat more when you're drunk and you tend to eat shittier food (i.e. fast food and Waffle House since they're open).

[Cops]

haha what

anyway, drinking water is the best solution

Any hangover I've ever experienced regardless of whether I blacked out drunk or started puking early in the evening or later on was no where near as bad as a few hangovers I've had spending an entire night and part of my morning drinking. Too many people bitch the next day that they feel like crap, honestly a headache or body pain is nothing and people should just man the fuck up.

Feeling like shit is a walk in the park compared to feeling like you're getting fucked in the side of the head with a screwdriver.

Food is good, as it absorbs alcohol... taking aspirin is bad 'cause you're not supposed to aspirin on alcohol.

edit: I wasn't advocating mixing Tylenol and aspirin with alcohol but if I've stopped drinking for an hour or two and I'm kicking back massive amounts of fluid I think I'm okay enough to take an aspirin to get rid of my headache long enough so I can actually get some sleep.

the process is as follows;

drink beer
eat chicken wings
drink alcohol
smoke a cigar
jo in the shower
puke or level out
drink water
eat food
take an aspirin if the head's really bad
pass the fuck out

wondering why the fuck there's a donkey beside me: priceless

Eating while you're drunk before you sleep is cruise control for obesity. Generally because you tend to eat more when you're drunk and you tend to eat shittier food (i.e. fast food and Waffle House since they're open).

If I was always sober McDonalds wouldn't get a fucking nickel out of me.

[Fit of Rage]

For what it's worth, I've only had one hangover that stayed with me for longer than an hour in the morning. Here's what I do:

Drink a bottle of water before I go drinking
Drink a bottle of water when I get back
Take some advil with the water
Eat some toast and peanut butter. You could probably eat anything, but at least peanut butter has protein in it.

Wake up the next morning and viola, no hangover or minimal hangover that really doesn't suck.

[genocidal]

Wake up the next morning and viola, no hangover or minimal hangover that really doesn't suck.

no wai u wake up 2 violas in the morning??? god ur so romantic!

[Money]

whataburger or jack in the box.

[Ward]

Unless you drink till 6 in the morning you'll probably never experience a bad hangover, a bad hangover is rare but makes you immobilized for several hours. It's like getting fucked in the head by a very large screwdriver.

Like most people said, hydrate yourself before bed and possibly take an aspirin. I think food soaks up the alcohol which might be good, (might be bad, I'm not a doctor) but I find eating and drinking (water) before bed always helps. Instead of your body processing beer and alcohol all night at least you're letting it process some sort of food.

You do NOT 'process' or digest food while you're asleep, dumbass.
Hence the reason you're not supposed to eat before sleeping. If you do, your food will rot inside you and you'll wake up with a very bad breath the next morning.

[genocidal]

You do NOT 'process' or digest food while you're asleep, dumbass.
Hence the reason you're not supposed to eat before sleeping. If you do, your food will rot inside you and you'll wake up with a very bad breath the next morning.

Another myth, "dumbass."

[Mr. Peanuts]

You need to replace the salts and fluids lost through drinking alcohol. The worst place you can be is in a hot club, dancing and sweating away because you lose more salt and water from your body. Also as they don't have any laws here preventing chemicals being used in beer production, many beers can give an instant headache or worse hangover in the morning (namely Stella Artois). I find If I drink the British brewed stuff, I suffer worse than when I drink the Belgian imported (chemical free) stuff.

I find the best thing to do to prevent a hangover is:

Eat salty, fatty food with lots of protein to absorb all that shit. Kebabs, burgers and chips (fries) at the end of your night.
Get plenty of water inside you (I try for 4 pints)

As a cure if you're still feeling like shit in the morning, a full English breakfast with a bloody mary (vodka, tomato juice, tabasco, raw egg) will do it.

While hungover, as long as I'm not being sick, I find the best thing to do is get out and about and be active.

[TagMor]

As a cure if you're still feeling like shit in the morning, a full English breakfast

sunnyside down with black pudding and fried tomato thanks bruv

[Money]

menudo

[genocidal]

a bloody mary (vodka, tomato juice, tabasco, raw egg)

That's fucking sick who the fuck puts a raw egg in their Bloody Mary?

PS: Worcestershire is key.