The Definition of a Hangover

The physical aspects of a hangover spread over certain areas of the body including dehydration, stomach malady including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and weakness. Other symptoms may include excess saliva, difficulty concentrating, anxiety or irritability, being repulsed by certain smells, tastes or sights.

A hangover describes the sum of physiological symptoms experienced the morning after a gluttonous consumption of alcoholic beverages. Symptoms usually include but not limited to: headache, nausea, sensitivity to light and noise, fatigue, extreme thirst and depression and also a general inability to function.

Hangovers can last anywhere from 1 to 4 hours, although some individuals have claimed to have experienced hangovers that last more than one day.

The physical aspects of a hangover spread over certain areas of the body including dehydration, stomach malady including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and weakness. Other symptoms may include excess saliva, difficulty concentrating, anxiety or irritability, being repulsed by certain smells, tastes or sights. Some individuals are even repulsed by the thought of or taste of alcohol during a hangover. Symptoms vary from one person to another in what symptoms they experience and in the intensity experienced.

Hangovers have many causes. The ethanol in alcohol is certainly right up there at the top of the list due to its ability to cause dehydration which is the major culprit in several symptoms of a hangover including dryness of mouth, headache, extreme thirst, and weakness.

Alcohol has an effect on the lining of the stomach that irritates it and causes nausea.

The breaking down of ethanol causes glucose to be lacking in the brain; those you have symptoms of fatigue, weakness, mood disturbances and the inability to function mentally, or to be able to concentrate.

Alcohol Hangover To help you out, here are some very good prevention tips that may ease your hangover symptoms. The obvious prevention and the one you probably won't want to follow is of course to not drink. OK, so maybe you can drink less, than you are otherwise inclined to do. How To Cure A Hangover

There are many nervous system symptoms including the sensitivity to light and noise.

The darker the alcoholic beverage the more congeners are present, which can aggravate or worsen the headache.

A hangover is something that disrupts the ability of the person to function at work, school or at home and causes many loss work hours that result in poor productivity, loss of wages and business profit.

Hangovers can ruin relations between married couples and can also cause many sexual disasters when those suffering from hangovers discover themselves waking up next to complete strangers.

Because individuals feel so badly during hangovers they often say and do things out of character. Hangovers are difficult to endure and actually are physical manifestations of the body's need to heal and recuperate from an event that has caused great harm.

Drinking to extremes and to the point of physical illness is really a cry for help. Alcohol is a drug and when ingested to the point of extreme it can cause damage that manifests itself in what we call, the hangover.

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11/21/2008
Layaway programs regain popularity locally (The Pantagraph)
BLOOMINGTON -- Go ahead and pick out all of your Christmas gifts now. Pay for them bit by bit, and you’ll have packages to wrap before Dec. 25 -- without the spending hangover in January.

Layaway programs regain popularity locally (The Pantagraph)

11/20/2008
Hooray For Hollyoaks (RainbowNetwork.com)
Hollyoaks has long been the perfect hangover cure, but now it’s so much more than just a guilty pleasure, trailing only behind Corrie as the soap for the gays. Forget the Fowlers, it’s the McQueens we wanna watch.

Hooray For Hollyoaks (RainbowNetwork.com)

11/21/2008
Oil under $50 could bring recession into Houston (Houston Chronicle)
Texas will lose its buffer from the downturn if the sliding price of crude causes companies to cut spending on drilling, lay off workers and send less tax money to state coffers.

Oil under $50 could bring recession into Houston (Houston Chronicle)

11/21/2008
Magnolia defeats Crosby in second-round (The Potpourri)
Perhaps it was playoffs jitters or just a hangover from winning the District Championship for the third season in a row, but the Lady Bulldogs, relatively, got off to a slow start. The team defeated Dellvalle, Nov. 4, in three sets, 25-18, 25-7, 25-12, to get past of the first-round of the playoffs and ran into the same situation against Crosby in the second-round after nearly dropping the first ...

Magnolia defeats Crosby in second-round (The Potpourri)

11/21/2008
Mortlock on guard for hangover (Narromine News)
If you want to stop the Wallabies from beating their chests, you just mention two Test locations - Auckland and Johannesburg.

Mortlock on guard for hangover (Narromine News)

11/21/2008
A look ahead to New York Giants at Arizona Cardinals (The Times of Trenton)
Skiing. Ice skating. Traveling to a tropical location. Having dinner with friends and/or family. Going to church for the first time since the bye week. Getting your third long morning of sleep in an attempt to rid yourself of the world's worst New Year's hangover...

A look ahead to New York Giants at Arizona Cardinals (The Times of Trenton)