Hangover Medicine | what over the counter medicine shouldn’t you take when suffering from a hangover?

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1. Rhianna Returns

   Aspirin or any NSAID, because it will likely irritate the already sore and inflamed lining of your stomach.

   Eat plenty of calories and preferably something starchy to resolve the hypoglycemia and push fluids to resolve dehydration and reduce the effects of toxins produced by the break down products of alcohol, mostly aldehydes. If your headache is really bad, take a few paracetamol s the next morning for pain but not at the same time as drinking alcohol as it will make your liver work harder.

   Edit
   One off use of any NSAID will not cause GI bleeding, but following a hangover it will likely irritate the already sore lining of the stomach which is already sore and inflamed from the alcohol. For this reason it should be avoided.

   Ideally ALL pain killers should be avoided because it can cause issues with Liver function/ toxicity, but this would only really be a problem if one has had a abnormal and excessive amount of alcohol. Normal, therapeutic doses of paracetamol will unlikely cause a problem.

2. UNCOLA

   Tylenol and alcohol are a bad mix. If you drank enough to give you a hangover, you drank too much too take Tylenol safely. I suggest you drink lots of water and take aspirin or ibuprofen for your headache. While both of these drugs can increase the risk of GI bleeding, it is not a major concern for the occasional use for the occasional hangover.

   edit: Read the warning label on Tylenol. If you drink you shouldn’t take it. Even moderate drinkers should not use Tylenol.

   http://www.olemiss.edu/news/dm/archives/97/9710/971006/971006N2alcohol.HTML

   The makers of Tylenol have been sued and lost, and now have to have a warning label about the use of Tylenol and alcohol. I know they would like you to think it is the safest drug on earth but it’s not.

   edit: If you drank enough to have a hangover, you have drank and abnormal or excessive amount of alcohol. If I have to make a choice I will take temporary GI upset over permanent liver damage.

   Sorry I will not back down on this one. Tylenol is not as safe as everyone assumes, and is especially not safe with the use of alcohol, even in very moderate amounts. It is certainly not the drug to take to relieve your night of over-indulgence.

3. Adam

   That first answer is right. My docter told me not to take aspirin because it does something to the stomach more so if you drink alcohol.

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