From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 20 18:57:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA29924 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 18:57:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA29913 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 18:57:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.Artisoft.COM by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA11791 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 20 Nov 1996 16:52:54 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA12230; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 17:35:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199611210035.RAA12230@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Drinking (Was: We want Perl!) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 17:35:15 -0700 (MST) Cc: jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu, terry@lambert.org, grog@lemis.de, chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199611202343.KAA09471@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Nov 21, 96 10:13:33 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Drink about half a litre of water before you crash, and then as much as > you can comfortably manage when you wake up. Dehydration brought on by > alcohol poisoning makes your hangover _much_ worse. Having the extra > water around makes the whole alcohol-disposal process work better too. Dehydration is the worst problem... as you say, address it before you crash. Many hangovers are the result of impurities other than the alcohol also causing histamine reactions. Red wine was recently reported to cause hangovers worse than white wine, for instance, because of the impurities. Most wines contain sulfites as preservatives. If you are allergic to the Sulfa family the drugs, you should probably not drink at all. At best, you are *guaranteed* a hangover. The motion sickness remedy I recommended will quiet stomach upset, headache, and vomiting (if you get that drunk) the morning after. Realize that I'm not speaking from personal experience, since I have a dietary allergy to alcohol (I guess that blows everyone's theories on me being drunk while posting... 8-)). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.