Effective hangover remedies that many people overlook.

Many people still use hangover remedies like taking pills, drinking lemon water, or inducing vomiting. Try the following method to sober up quickly without harming your health.

Associate Professor Dr. Bui Quang Huy, Head of the Psychiatry Department (Military Hospital 103, Hanoi), said that when alcohol enters the body, it is absorbed from the mouth to the anal mucosa, but mainly in the duodenum (90%).

First, they enter the bloodstream, affecting the brain and causing inhibition in the cerebral cortex, leading to loss of behavioral and speech control, and in more severe cases, respiratory depression. Extremely high blood alcohol levels can cause coma. These cases are very difficult to treat, even with mechanical ventilation or intubation.

Therefore, the best approach is to avoid alcohol altogether. In fact, the consumption of alcoholic beverages in our country is excessively high, especially during Tet (Lunar New Year).

Many people are also interested in how to sober up after drinking and try various methods such as taking medication. However, experts say that these are not the best approaches.

The simplest way to cure a hangover is to drink water. Photo: Brobible.

After years of research into the mechanisms of alcohol's effects on the body, Dr. Huy stated that once alcohol enters the bloodstream, it takes two hours to break down. After this period, the alcohol concentration in the blood is reduced by half.

They are eliminated through metabolism in the liver, respiration, or urine (10% remains intact in the urine). Therefore, simply leaving it overnight will allow the alcohol to be metabolized completely without any further action.

If you want to quickly eliminate alcohol from your body, the best way is through urination.

"The simplest way to sober up is to drink plain water. If that's difficult, you can mix it with tea or sugar water to make it easier to drink. The purpose of this is to encourage frequent urination to eliminate the alcohol from the body. In the West, doctors often prescribe tap water directly to help patients sober up," Associate Professor Huy said.

According to doctors, hangover remedies actually work by stimulating the drinker to urinate. Additionally, inducing vomiting is also a way to quickly eliminate alcohol from the body.

However, once alcohol has been absorbed into the body, vomiting will expel all the food. If we continue drinking, we will feel tired and are more likely to damage our stomachs.

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