The Anatomy of a Hangover

What is a Hangover?
A hangover occurs when a person consumes too much alcohol. Some case studies show people had hangovers with as little as two beers. It really depends on what you are drinking, if you are mixing drinks, and what your tolerance is, and a number of other factors. It is said that men have a higher tolerance for alcohol. My opinion on that is the simple factor of height and weight.

What Are the Symptoms?

Headache
A headache occurs when alcohol in the bloodstream sucks all the vitamins and nutrients from the body and organs. Once the organs start to dry up, the organs begin to take moisture from the brain.

When this happens the brain actually shrinks and the blood vessels become inflamed making it harder for blood to flow through the brain and causing pressure. As the brain shrinks it pulls at the membranes that connect the brain and skull thus giving one whopping headache.

Diarrhea
For some people just the night before and all the alcohol they drank can leave them with an awful upset stomach. As for acute or chronic binge drinkers they can develop usual bouts of diarrhea from chronic ethanol ingestion.

Nausea and Vomiting
Feeling like crap the next day goes hand-in-hand with drinking alcohol. This is your body’s way of saying, “Hey fool, I’ve had too much to drink!” The best thing to do is sleep, eat some food if you can to help absorb the alcohol, or take a hot shower to sweat the toxins out of your body.

If you do throw up, as bad as it is, this will make you feel better because you are getting the alcohol out of your system. So as stupid as it sounds… pray to throw up if you want to feel better.

Lethargic
This basically results to being dehydrated. You have consumed a lot of a drug known as a depressant so naturally are going to feel sluggish. This can also be accompanied by dizziness.

Dehydration
When you drink too much alcohol your body naturally tries to rid itself of harmful toxins thus causing you to urinate like a mule. The more you drink, the more you urinate. The body starts to urinate of fluid four times faster than usual. This is the reasoning for dehydration.

Red Eyes
Red eyes are another symptom associated with hangovers. This is explained simply because your body is dehydrated; taking all the moisture from your eyes leaving them dry, itchy, and blood shot.