The Hangover

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The Hangover

Just about every drinker has woken up with a painful headache, dry mouth, nausea, and dizziness that come from overindulging in too much alcohol. The definition for the word hangover is the unpleasant physical effects following a heavy use of alcohol. In other words, a hangover is the painful day after drinking one drink after another. There is no cure for a hangover, just ways to prevent it from happening.

Hangover is where the active ingredient in alcohol, ethanol, is transformed to pyruvate causing the toxic chemical called acetaldehyde (Kater, pars. 4-5). Acetaldehyde is a chemical that is processed by the liver at a fixed rate no matter how much is all ready in the blood system; this process uses a lot of the body's energy; therefore, the body tries to restore the normal energy causing dehydration (Kater, par. 5). Dehydration is what causes all the horrible feelings the drinker comes across the morning after drinking.

Once dehydration comes into play there is only one cure, time. The body needs time and plenty of liquids to get over a hangover. There is o...

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