Does Throwing Up Help with a Hangover?
Throwing up might provide temporary relief in specific situations: If you still have alcohol in your stomach: If you vomit shortly after drinking, you may remove some of the alcohol before it fully enters your bloodstream. This could slightly reduce intoxication. If you feel extremely nauseous: Vomiting can sometimes relieve stomach discomfort, but it won’t actually cure a hangover.
Why Throwing Up Doesn’t Cure a Hangover.
Most alcohol is already absorbed: By the time you wake up with a hangover, alcohol has already entered your bloodstream and been metabolized. Vomiting won’t remove it. Dehydration worsens: Vomiting leads to additional fluid loss, making hangover symptoms like headaches and dizziness worse. Repeated vomiting can damage your stomach lining and esophagus, leading to more pain and discomfort.
"Nauseous" means bad-smelling. "Nauseated" is the feeling you get when you need to vomit.
ReplyDeleteThe only "cure" for too much alcohol is time. Time enough for the body to metabolize it. The only "treatments" that may help are a gastric lavage with charcoal to help absorb any remaining alcohol in the GI tract and IV fluids. LOTS of IV fluids to help dilute the alcohol in the blood stream. But time is really the only cure.
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