h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The best preventatives that I have found so far are these:

Before drinking, ingest milk, and raw eggs. These put a lining on your stomach.

During drinking, avoid drinks that have mixed badly for you in the past. These tend to produce methanol compounds, and really don't do you any good. Also for every pint or two, have a tomato juice. This doesn't look good if youdo it in the wrong pubs, but it does replace almost exactly the stuff that the alcohol is washing out.
Also bear in mind how much you are drinking, whatever you try, you can only remove 1 unit of alcohol per hour.

After drinking. I have found that if I do those things, I have no problems after drinking except the smell of the impurities in the alcohol comming out in the sweat for the next few days. bear this in mind when deciding wat to drink.

Yeah, tomato juice works. It's the salt, and stuff. Also, if you eat something before drinking, you'll have a much better time of it in the morning. The food in your stomach will sop up some of the alcohol before it hits your bloodstream.

sorry, but that one about the food is largely a red herring.

all it does is delay absorbtion. you still have to process the alcohol.

I suppose. Although it does seem to make things easier for me.

i would have to agree with the food thing. like if your laying in somebodies yard/bathroom/barn heaving your guts out because youve yaked up everything except for that nasty yellow (at least i think its yellow) stomoch acid sort of stuff, the absolutely BEST thing ever is to eat a couple of slices of whole wheat bread. worst case senario is that you will puke if up, but anything is better than those wretched heaves.

Yeah. I've had terrible experiences with vomiting - like lying in a hospital bed, puking every 20 minutes. Except after a while there's nothing to heave up and that's the worst part, so eating something is definately a good idea. Also keeping hydrated is good.

That "nasty yellow stomoch acid sort of stuff" is bile. It's not acid, it's alkali which is just as bad, but it comes from your intestines so getting something into your stomach is probably a very good idea. Bread is good if you can handle it, for some people that's the last thing they want when they are feeling bad.

Ugh. I HATE vomiting bile. *the weak stomached may want to stop here* Once I had a terrible stomach flu, and was really far gone... vomiting every ten minutes or so... and I couldn't keep anything down, not even water. I saw all I needed to see of bile over that hellish 24-hour period. And the emergency room staff wouldn't let me drink water, because they sucked. *end of stupid rant*

In conclusion, vomiting sucks.

there are good reasons for stopping you drinking water. it causes you to vomit more.

what you have to do is drink just enough water to replace that lost to dehydration. it isbest taken intravenously, so it doesn't cause you to throw up. this is why those who have vomited a lot will be put on a saline drip.

I don't even remember if I got a saline drip, I was so out of it. I kept falling asleep, and then the doctors would wake me up to X-ray me or something, and then I'd fall asleep again... the whole night is sort of a blur.

Not that I haven't had my share of blurry nights, mind you...