Pavlik,

I just took a look at your vodka i beer page.

My personal hangover prevention method is this:

While drinking, alternate between alcoholic drinks and water (or soda water
or tonic water - any clear liquid devoid of sugar or caffeine).
Continue drinking, but not to a point where you start forgetting to do this.
On those occassions when I have followed this advice I have had nothing
resembling a hangover.

In general, sugar and alcohol do not mix.  Processing of sugar uses up
water - which adds to the dehydrating effects of alcohol.

AC&Cs - a wonderful concoction of aspirin, caffeine, and codeine - are
wonderful if you end up with a hangover - although I found that they do not
help that much with a really severe hangover - to large extent, I suspect,
because caffeine and aspirin are not nice to the stomach lining.  Avoid
Tylenol 3s - since in a hungover state it is easy to forget how much you
have taken, and it is VERY EASY to fatally overdose on Tylenol.  Also, if
you still have some alcohol in your system it is VERY EASY to get liver
damage with Tylenol.  Another caution - teenagers should not drink to the
point where this becomes an issue, since overdoses of asprin can be deadly
for teenagers - while the same dose administered to adults will just cause
an upset stomach.  They are available in Canada without a prescription - but
not in the USA and, to the best of my knowledge, in most other places.


Misha