Hangover after beer

Many believe that a hangover after the beer is much worse than after vodka or wine.

It really is - a hangover after the beer has a strong headache, increased thirst and dry mouth, as well as severe nausea.

The fact is that beer - low-alcohol drink, so drink it in much larger quantities than vodka or wine.

Hangover after beer

A large number of drinking beer, which is a diuretic, leads to dehydration, and together with the beer out all the liquid from the body.

Ethanol has a diuretic effect, causes irritation in the brain and pituitary stops the production of watery substance that acts on the kidneys so that they absorb water, which would have to enter the bladder. As a result, the movement of urine varies, which leads to the appearance of dryness.

To compensate for the lack of water, the body absorbs fluid from the other parts of the body, that is, from the brain, which, consequently, is temporarily reduced. In fact, the brain is insensitive to pain, but researchers believe that reducing and external dura.

In this process, the fibers are affected, sensitivity to pain, which relate mater skull. So the morning comes the state of severe dehydration.

Severe headache is explained in the same lot of drinking, resulting in a long presence of alcohol in the stomach and the strongest influence on his vessels.

Violation of the digestive system and unpleasant sensations in the style of nausea are explained by the same amount of alcohol consumed.

Alcohol does not have time to be absorbed as it increases in the stomach, so the gastric mucosa is irritated, which leads to the above feelings.

Friends and foes BEER

After examining 60 beers it was found that there are clearly differences in the content of fusel alcohols. First, wheat beer from a high concentration, which causes a hangover.

According to the analysis of wheat beer contains 160 milligrams per liter fusel alcohol while export beers, in most cases, comprises only from 60 to 90 milligrams. Especially gentle, according to the analysis, a non-alcoholic beer.

In order to have a good evening with a glass of beer, you need to remember a few rules:

- Beer must be cooled to a temperature of about 10 degrees.

- Beer goes well with salty foods - chips, nuts, pistachios, cheese, fish and crabs.

- Beer also goes well with hot and spicy dishes.

- Beer is the best drink from tall glasses or mugs. Pour beer is better minimum number of times.

- Beer should not be confused with any other drink. Even change the beer for the evening is not recommended.

How to avoid a hangover, what and how much you need to drink, the symptoms

In order to to avoid a hangover, the best way would definitely be abstinence from alcoholic or soft drinks. However, if the bow celebration, banquet or other event, you need to remember a few simple rules, observing that,

You will be able to avoid a hangover.

- In using alcohol, do not try to mix drinks, but if and began to mix, then raise and not lower degree.

- Try to eat more when consuming alcohol - the presence of food in the stomach contributes to the rapid removal of alcohol and its blocking.

- It is best to take alcohol once an hour - then it will be absorbed without painful consequences for your body.

- Drink plenty of fluids, better aerated. It will also help the rapid removal of alcohol from the body.

- To to avoid a hangover, eat more foods containing starch, such as potatoes.

- In the event that you feel that you have gone too far and have overestimated their strength - have a few tablets of activated charcoal - it will absorb the excess of alcohol, not allowing him to enter the bloodstream.

- Avoid sugar-alcohol (liqueurs, punches, a sweet wine), warm drinks (grog, mulled wine) and containing carbonic acid (champagne, Prosecco).

- Avoid red wine! It often causes headaches. Many people have a migraine and after champagne.

- Refuse, as far as possible smoking as nicotine and alcohol with devastating effects.

... And most importantly: do not drink a lot!

Before you will go to bed, drink a large glass of water to ensure an adequate supply of fluid.

What and how much should you drink?

Various drinks are combined with different products.

The degree of cooling must also be different. Wine must not be cooled more than 2 hours.

Red wine is cooled to about 10-15 ° C, and is usually served with meat or cheese, allowed the combination of red wine with chocolate.

White wine is cooled to 5-8 C and fed to the fish, snacks or white meat.

According to the rules can not drink vodka in one gulp. It can not be just as a snack or a drink - you need to get a taste of vodka. Vodka served well chilled in small glasses up to 50 vodka is served, under the most diverse snack, but it should be a lot. In Russia, vodka is often used for pickles, goes well with vodka fish, meat, potatoes and more.

Cognac is drunk from small glasses, slowly. From snacks at Cognac you can choose apples, many people like brandy bitter chocolate. Cognac can be submitted to the coffee.

Tips to avoid a hangover:

1) .Prezhde all, do not drink on an empty stomach, and the first thorough attempt.

2) the need to drink, possibly slowly in small sips. The slower you drink, the lower the alcohol enters the brain. The body burns about 28 grams of alcohol per hour.

3). Do not alternate varieties of alcohol - a drink will guarantee you a headache.

4) Avoid dark drinks: red wine, brandy, cognac and whiskey, which lead to more headaches than, for example, white wine or vodka.

5) .Before sleep: Turn off the heat and, if possible, open the window.

Symptoms of a hangover

Hangover symptoms are, primarily, headaches and nausea.

The main symptoms of a hangover also include intense thirst, dry mouth, red eyes with dilated pupils, retching, and other unpleasant sensations. These symptoms include very poor general condition.

Intense thirst and dryness of the mouth arise from a desire body as quickly as possible to get rid of the presence of alcohol in the blood. Because of these sensations you consume plenty of fluids to help the body to alcohol withdrawal.

Headache occurs due to narrowing of blood vessels, which should be expanded by taking a pill, drank a little alcohol in the morning or in other ways.

Eye redness, photophobia and other symptoms are due to the same vasodilatation. These symptoms disappear only over time. Exposure to them with medicines, folk methods and other means will not help.

Nausea, vomiting, heaviness in the stomach and weakness are symptoms of poisoning. Alcohol - is a poison, and its excessive use leads to poisoning of the body.

The absolute unwillingness to do something is a consequence of the fact that the poisoning of the body needs rest.

Depending on the characteristics of the body, a person may have other symptoms of a hangover. Hangover exposed people feel as if they are dying.

In most cases, when the hangover may be restless nights with thirst, headaches and nausea. Often during the day the symptoms get worse.

Best of all, already in the early evening to go to sleep for the next day hangover symptoms and complaints disappeared, or at least not very strong.

What is tequila and how to drink it?

Mexican revolutionaries love tequila, it gave courage to the heart and soul of oblivion. Peak demand for tequila in Mexico it fell to the romantic era of revolution of 1910 ... 1917., Although the legendary leader of the peasant movement

Pancho Villa was a staunch teetotaler. History did not spare nor drunkards, nor chiefs. When the revolutionary storm subsided, the Mexicans - winners and losers, rich and poor - drowned his disappointment in a bottle of tequila.

And on rowdy movie screens a new hero - a fierce snapper with a tender heart, wounded broken hopes. In one hand he held a glass of tequila in the other - the most beautiful girl.

Tequila has become a sign of this man sexually. This idea pleased. The first output of tequila into the international arena took place in 1873, when three huge barrels were brought from Mexico in the North American neighbor, New Mexico.

During the "dry law" in the United States carried out the delivery of tequila smugglers. However, the real success came to the world tequila in the '70s, thanks to heavy drinkers students in Los Angeles, to discover a cheap and effective way to cheer. Fashion for tequila has spread like an epidemic.

Now, half a world filled with vodka agave. 82 percent of Mexican exports go to the United States of tequila, 12 percent - in Europe (the main lovers are concentrated in Germany, Holland, Belgium and France). 70 countries of the world drink tequila. We are no exception.

Tequila, Mezcal, pulque - Mexican famous triad of strong drinks. All three were born of the same mother - of tropical agave. Agave - the plant is universal. This was well known to the Indians, who used it for various household needs. In all it was a question.

Spines and leaves crowning the sharp thorns were used as needles, pins, nails and awls. Sweet-tasting chewing stalks of flowers, as they are now chew the cud. Penk (agave leaves) Wing cabin, including bonfires. Zola fertilized crops. The same fly ash containing much caustic soda is used as the wash liquor.

Prepared from foams and rough textile fiber. This fiber natives made his simple clothes that served them from birth to death. The Indians made of agave fiber and paper shoes. Fiber is known around the world under the name "sisal", it is widely used today for technical purposes: for the production of cordage, rope, burlap.

Agave milk as a good cow, three times a day. To do this in the "cone", hiding in the socket of fleshy leaves, make an incision. From there, it sucked the sugary juice, which is called "honey water".

The period of "lactation" lasts for three to four months. During this time, agave gives four to seven liters of juice daily. From the "honey water" make pulque, mezcal and tequila. Origin beverage prepared from agave juice by its attenuation, the second and third - By subsequent distillation.

The town of Tequila is located at the foot of the volcano three kilometer Tequila, in the area where once lived an Indian tribe Tequila. Actually vodka tequila called the place of their geographical origin.

Tequila can be of different types. The most common - a white (blanco), is as transparent as our Russian vodka.

After a two-month aging in oak barrels drink becomes a light yellow color - get young (joven) or gold tequila. Tequila age from two months to a year is called the supernatant (repasado).

But the most high-quality, robust and, accordingly, expensive tequila - old (anejo), withstand more than a year. She has a dark golden color and distinctive flavor of the noble.

Tequila - a great base for a variety of cocktails, but most of it consumed in its pure form. Drink with lemon, which is pre-squeezed into a glass (or suck the lips), and a pinch of salt.

The salt is placed on the tongue or poured on the back of his hand, and as a snack lick. Well tequila comes with SANGRITA (literally translated into Russian - "krovushkoy"), spicy red sauce - a mixture of tomato, orange and lemon juice.

This macho must know that absorb the contents of the glass should not gulp, and in small sips. The only way you can feel the beating heart of tequila.

The healing properties of the Mexican tequila have long been known to physicians. As witnessed in 1651 the Spanish doctor Jeronimo Hernandez, drink "was widely used by the people through rubbing with poor mobility of the joints."

In 1875 the London Medical Society argued that consumed in moderation tequila helps "purify the blood, stimulates digestion and can be recommended in some cases as an aphrodisiac in the absence of appetite."

It is treated, the most important thing - to know the dose.

Mexicans say that bottle of tequila hidden fiend - an evil spirit, ready at any moment to break out. Observe safety.

"When you drink tequila - experts advise - obkruti around the neck of the bottle and black cord after each dose is fastened on him a bundle. Forget to do it at least once - the demon immediately jump out and then can not escape troubles! "