| We've all been there. Those times in our lives | | | | hangover deterrent. |
| when we swear that alcohol will never again touch | | | | |
| our lips. These instances usually happen in the | | | | Don't Mix with Prescription Drugs |
| early mornings, with the cracks from the | | | | Several prescription drugs contain a label that |
| bathroom linoleum digging into our knees and our | | | | says, "This medicine will increase the affects of |
| contact lenses glued to our eyeballs as if holding | | | | alcohol." While some people may look at this and |
| on for dear life, afraid that the heaves of our | | | | see it as a way to save money at the bars, |
| stomach will cause them to fall out. | | | | taking a few pills and generating a virtual two for |
| | | | one deal is probably not the best way to save a |
| With alcohol freely flowing - booze oozing out of | | | | buck. Prescription pills and alcohol can be a |
| bottles, people professing their love for each | | | | dangerous combination and when your body is |
| other, glasses of wine practically filling themselves | | | | met with a dangerous combination, it fights back, |
| up - it's easy to forget the hangover that awaits | | | | doing all it can to kick any dangerous substances |
| in the coming hours. Lurking in the bathroom, | | | | out of your system. This can only lead to a wilder |
| hiding beneath the sink or behind a closed shower | | | | than intended night, and a morning full of |
| curtain, this hangover is sure to pop into ours lives | | | | mourning. |
| anytime we play the role of the unsuspecting | | | | |
| partier, leaving us to swear off drinking for life or | | | | Know When to Say When |
| longer. | | | | Though a saying usually equated with drinking and |
| | | | driving, knowing when to say when is also |
| Though everything has a price, and a hangover | | | | applicable to drinking in general. Even if you drink |
| may very well be the price we pay for a wild | | | | plenty of water, eat on a full stomach, and lay off |
| night out, drinking wine does not always have to | | | | prescription drugs, drinking huge amounts of wine |
| cost you in the form of a hangover. Taking some | | | | can still cause you to get sick. When wine is |
| precautions can mean the difference between | | | | flowing smoothly, it's easy to keep drinking |
| feeling fine and shooting a beady eyed glare in the | | | | without realizing the amount of alcohol you are |
| direction of every bottle in your wine cellar. | | | | actually consuming. Because the human brain has |
| | | | a late reaction to alcohol, you may be getting |
| Drink Water | | | | extremely drunk without immediately feeling |
| Alcohol dehydrates you, which is why the next | | | | inebriated. It's best to drink slowly, pacing yourself |
| day is met with a headache and the ability to | | | | to avoid that one moment where you rise from |
| drink three bottles of soda, five liters of water, | | | | your chair and realize, three drinks too late, that |
| and a pot of coffee without ever having to pee. | | | | you've consumed far too much. Drink in |
| The best way to thwart this is to drink a glass of | | | | moderation and remind those around you that |
| water for every glass of wine you drink. While | | | | friends don't let friends get hangovers. |
| wine does contain water, the alcohol in the wine | | | | |
| trumps the water's affect, disallowing you to | | | | Obviously, the full proof way of avoiding a |
| utilize duality and count a glass of wine as both | | | | hangover is to not drink at all. But, there's no fun |
| water and alcohol. Drinking a glass of water for | | | | in that; the fact that the Great Depression was |
| every glass of wine will keep you hydrated, | | | | preceded by a decade without alcohol is no |
| decreasing the chances of a rough morning. | | | | coincidence. We all want the ability to eat, drink, |
| | | | and be merry. And we all want a glass of wine to |
| Eat Before | | | | savor. By simply being proactive in your drinking, |
| Drinking on an empty stomach may seem like a | | | | you should be able to avoid regret the morning |
| good idea. As the sensation of wine glides down | | | | after. And you should be able to avoid the |
| your esophagus, setting up residence by itself in | | | | realization of why, when it comes down to it, a |
| your stomach and making you feel giddier than it | | | | hangover is really just two four letter |
| would setting up residence next to a five course | | | | words.Jennifer Jordan is the senior editor at With |
| meal, drinking on empty can cause you to run out | | | | a vast knowledge of wine etiquette, she writes |
| of gas in hangover Hell. Eating about an hour | | | | articles on everything from how to hold a glass of |
| before going out drinking, however, helps to | | | | wine to how to hold your hair back after too |
| absorb the alcohol, keeping you from getting too | | | | many glasses. Ultimately, she writes her articles |
| drunk, too quickly. While you don't need to eat | | | | with the intention that readers will remember wine |
| everything in sight, eating a meal containing bread | | | | is fun and each glass of anything fun should |
| or pasta is a good way to arm yourself with a | | | | always be savored. |