Hello Lovelies!
This is hopefully going to be a quick and informative post. And something I'm sure it will help some people out and ease the suffering from the dreaded hangover. Now many people do say, "self inflicted wounds" and all of that, but why suffer when you don't need to?
This is something that kind of goes around, low key as a lot of nurses don't want the secret given away - or they themselves don't know! So I'm actually quite lucky to be privy to this information!
Anyway, lets start at the beginning, with a quick explanation of what alcohol does to your system and what causes the horrendous hangover feeling. Alcohol is an irritant for your whole system. It's basically poison. And with the irritation caused in your stomach it can cause cramps, nausea and vomiting. Alcohol also as a major dehydration affect on the body, which is where most of the problem comes from the next day - such as feeling woozy or having a thumping headache. This dehydration affects your skin too, have you ever woke up after a night out with massive dark circles under your eyes that no amount of sleeping all day will shift?; or you wakeup and your skin looks dull and you've developed spots? That's the effects from the alcohol. It basically makes it through your whole system damaging parts of it along the way. I wont go down the route of long term effects or liver disease or heart disease in this post - that's a bit too serious for this post, and I'll be here all day, although it is very important to know.
