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Tackling the Friday Morning Enemy: The Hangover Tackling the Friday Morning Enemy: The Hangover Almost every college student is bound to wake up feeling awful after
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Tackling the Friday Morning Enemy: The Hangover
Almost every college student is bound to wake up feeling awful after a long night of drinking. Veisalgia, the more formal name for a hangover, (Perry) consists of many symptoms that resemble the flu. (Minocha) The most common symptom is a headache, but many people will also experience dehydration. (Zick) Other common symptoms of a hangover include nausea, diarrhea, fatigue, loss of appetite, anxiety, difficulty sleeping, weakness, poor sense of your own well-being, sensitivity to light and sound, increased heart rate and blood pressure, trouble concentrating and trembling, and according to Perry it is most likely that you would experience a headache, dehydration and fatigue. More than likely you would not experience trembling. For most people it is true that the more alcohol you consume the worse your hangover will be. (Perry) There is not actually a way to prevent a hangover for sure except not drink, but there are a few things that help to prevent and a few that will help cover the symptoms the next day.
Hangovers can be caused by impurities in the alcohol. Brain Zick a chemist who did research pertaining to hangovers said that it is very less likely for a person to get drunk if they were somehow able to drink 100% pure alcohol. (Zick) These impurities are called congeners. Different alcohols have different congeners so when you mix them you end up with an even bigger hangover. Dark liquor is more likely to cause a hangover than clear. (Perry) A study showed that a in a group of drinkers that consumed the same amount of alcohol, 33% of the people who drank bourbon got a hangover as opposed to the vodka drinkers where only 3% got hangovers. (Minocha) But how do we prevent these symptoms from happening?
There is only one way to absolutely be sure that you will not get a hangover. That is of course not drink alcohol. (Minocha) Our liver's has three enzymes that breaks down the alcohol that we...
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