You know that happy hour with
friends that end up in several beers? Or that party where the waiters do not
stop serving wine and champagne glasses?
The result of these two events is
usually the same: severe headache, dizziness, difficulty concentrating, fatigue
and high sensitivity to light and sound.
The hangover happens every time
exaggerate the consumption of alcoholic beverages and can be classified as an abstinence
crisis.
To be able to process the alcohol
consumed, the liver increases the production of enzymes. When the drinking is
over, the enzyme concentration is still high, unbalancing the whole metabolism.
A hangover is the general distress
that comes the day after excessive alcohol intake because of an overload that
occurs in the liver.
Excessive consumption of alcohol
also inhibits the production of the antidiuretic hormone, promoting
dehydration, aggravating the hangover.
The hangover symptoms last for about
24 hours and may be:
- Very bad headache
- Nausea and vomiting;
- Dry mouth, and great thirst;
- Lack of appetite.
By identifying these symptoms you
should seek help to cure the hangover with pharmacy medicines or home remedies,
and primary drinking enough water to detoxify the liver.
In the long term the main
consequence of hangover is liver cirrhosis, which is nothing more than the
"destruction" of the liver, and so far, she has no cure.
Mixing
drinks is bad?
Forget that story that mixing
distilled and fermented hurts: the way that the liver processes the alcohol
consumed is the same regardless of the source.
The main harm resulting from such a
'mixture' is due to the total quantity of alcohol consumed, not the method of
preparation of each drink.
Each dose of drink takes an hour to
be metabolized by the liver - understand a dose as a can of beer (360ml), a
glass of wine (100ml) or distillate (40ml).
Therefore, beverages such as whiskey
and vodka, which contains a high concentration of alcohol, tend to worsen the
feeling of discomfort on the following day.
To emphasize that sweet or fizzy
drinks are absorbed faster by the body.
