Surely it has happened to you at some time. After a night out you wake up because your head is pounding, you are about to vomit, you have chills and you notice a strange thickness in your blood that makes it difficult to move. They are clear symptoms of a monumental hangover, an ailment that has only one cause: excessive alcohol intake. And we are afraid that you will continue to suffer from it until you have identified the threshold of your tolerance to alcohol, a threshold that, since it does not follow a logical pattern, is very difficult to determine.
Anti-hangover patches in pharmacies
- Luckily, and so that your Sundays do not become the worst day of the week while you suffer in bed that discomfort that seems to herald the end of your days, the anti-hangover patch arrives from the US. A mixture of amino acids, vitamins and antioxidants that can already be purchased in our pharmacies, marketed under the name Bytom and registered as a food supplement.
- The hangover patch is applied 45 minutes before starting to drink and should be kept on until 8 hours after the last drink. During this time, the patch continuously releases its ingredients, including vitamins A, B12, D and E, Acai berry extract and folic acid, which act directly in the blood, partly mitigating the harmful effects. Of the alcohol
- At least that is what its manufacturer promises us, which, if true, is revealed as the creator of one of the greatest inventions of the century. Because counteracting the effects of excessive alcohol consumption is something that has been tried since ancient times and so far with little success. And it is that our body does not always tolerate alcohol in the same way. In any case, it is worth trying these anti-hangover patches, since the box of 5 costs about 17 euros and has no contraindications.
Other hangover remedies
- We hope that these anti-hangover patches are really effective because the truth is that we all know a thousand and one remedies to avoid suffering the consequences of a few drinks too many and they don’t always have an effect. Because the effects that alcohol produces in our body are not always the same and hangovers vary in intensity without really knowing the cause.
- Traditional hangover remedies range from preventing a spoonful of oil before going out to the vitamin B12 compounds you buy at the drugstore. It is also recommended to drink a large amount of water in order to eliminate alcohol from the blood faster, although the truth is that alcohol has its own rhythm to disappear, whether we drink water or not. Tomato juice is another of the most popular remedies, but it has the drawback that not all stomachs admit it on a hangover morning.
- The most widespread popular remedy deserves special mention, which is the one that proposes to continue drinking so as not to notice the hangover, about which we dare not even comment. And although we don’t want to make an apology for alcohol here, if the gin and tonics got out of hand last night, don’t worry, because you will survive the hangover. In the absence of anti-hangover patches, ibuprofen and bed. And patience, because whatever you do until tomorrow you won’t feel better.