Veisalgia or what the hell happened last night?!?
Anyone who drinks alcohol has woken up the morning after a big night out feeling like death. A hangover, which is medically known as veisalgia, is your body’s way of telling you that you’ve had too much to drink.
There is an array of physical symptoms associated with hangovers, such as headache, fatigue, nausea, dehydration, increased sensitivity to light and sound, drowsiness, body aches, vertigo, and for some people, cognitive and mood disturbances, such as depression, anxiety, and irritability.
Additional symptoms are gastrointestinal problems (such as stomach pain and vomiting), sleep disturbances, and sympathetic hyperactivity, such as sweating, tremor, and increased blood pressure.
A direct effect of alcohol is dehydration. Alcohol is a diuretic, which means that it naturally dehydrates the body because it causes the body to increase urinary output. Additionally, vomiting that occurs after excessive drinking further dehydrates the body and also leads to electrolyte imbalance. This combination of dehydration and electrolyte imbalance produces the hangover symptoms of thirst, headache, and dizziness. So, try to drink a glass of water between alcoholic drinks to decrease alcohol intake and dehydration.
The symptoms of fatigue, mood disturbances, and weakness can be attributed to alcohol’s direct effect of lowering blood sugar levels. Alcohol metabolism causes the body to build up chemicals that hamper glucose production, which would decrease the glucose in our bloodstreams. Additionally, alcohol breaks down glycogen, which is the body’s stored energy, in the liver to glucose, which is then expelled in urine.
So, if you already have a hangover try to consume foods and drinks that contain fructose (such as fruit juice or honey) because fructose will help your body burn the alcohol faster...also is a good time to rest ;)
Another direct effect of alcohol is gastrointestinal disturbances, such as irritation of the stomach and intestines, inflammation of the stomach lining, and delayed stomach emptying. Furthermore, excessive consumption of alcohol can lead to an accumulation of fat compounds in liver cells, resulting in what is known as “fatty liver”. Alcohol also promotes excess gastric acid production. All of these factors can lead to the stomach pain and general queasy feeling experienced during a hangover....so, moderation is the key.
Time knows 6 ways to ease your hangover:
http://time.com/3648823/cure-fix-hangover/
Know more about veisalgia:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/522979
http://alcoholrehab.com/alcoholism/what-is-a-hangover-veisalgia/
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Happy new year Corina! ❤
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Eric! :)
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Corina Marinescu :))
ReplyDeleteI notice it offers corporate product suggestions instead of normal foods, as in "sports drinks" when coconut water supplies all those nutrients. It talks about glucose when you'd be better off eating low carb foods to balance off the night of sugar excess. Also, drinking a great deal of water just before sleep is a famous hangover prevention.
ReplyDeleteI quit drinking when I went out to the clubs because I realized I could have as much fun sober for a lot less money. I discovered I had as much hangover from drinking coffee and eating snacks as if I'd been drinking alcohol. It was the lack of water, the lack of good nutrition, the insane tobacco smoke in the clubs (now history, yay!) and the excessive physical exercise of dancing like a bad jazz ballerina for four hours!
ann kiszt not everybody can get coconut water that easy.
ReplyDeleteSordatos Cáceres And yet they can all get coca cola and this doesn't seem a problem? We could at least recommend the stuff and you'll find it's actually carried at walmart et al.
ReplyDeleteann kiszt then of you have no problem with that coconut water why having problems with sport drinks?
ReplyDeleteSordatos Cáceres Check the ingredients on those candy drinks. They're toxic overall. I know not everyone is aware how toxic concentrated sugars are, but that's all there is in those sports drinks! Coconut water is protein, simple fats, small amounts of relative sugar, and naturally deposited with minerals and vitamins and rich in electrolytes. You can feed it to a starving animal to re-hydrate and restart the digestion but you wouldn't do THAT with a "sports drink." But it's not cheap to produce or ship.
ReplyDeleteToxic can be everything in thy right amount
ReplyDeleteSordatos Cáceres It turns out that there is no right amount of sugar beyond what plants have put into their fruits, and that needs to be held in check by our capacity for the fiber. Sugar is implicated in every major disease going these days, including mental illnesses. Broad claims, but if it acts on the central metabolism as devilishly as it appears, the claim is feasible.
ReplyDeleteIs feasible but as we are now there is a lot to understand about nutrition, studies keep emerging that contradict previous one, I'm not saying we should just eat so the chocolate, fats and sugars daily but to go to the other extreme and never consume is not palatable to most people, life is more than just being healthy
ReplyDeleteWell, Sordatos Cáceres you aren't saying anything not widely spoken already. Nor am I, I presume, so we just make our own risk assessments and wait for the outcome. Life is an experiment! I merely worry that the paucity of healthful options has a great deal to do with corporate dominance of our market and culture and is to our detriment.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year John!
ReplyDeleteKeep up the awesomeness. You are seriously one of my most favorite people here :)
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't recommend a life without sugar. The other extreme has some deadly risks which I hope all of us are aware of. Same applies to alcohol and pretty much everything in this life. Moderation is a very balanced key.
ReplyDeleteCorina Marinescu There is a key difference between sugars occurring naturally in our fresh food and sugars we add from a container!
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