How are you feeling today?
Have you promised yourself that youll never drink again?
If that sounds familiar, then youre probably here hunting for hangover cures.
Two popular folk remedies that pretend to have some scientific backing are Pedialyte and Gatorade.
Lets see if they actually work.
Pedialyte:Pedialyte was created to help dehydrated children recover from illness.
The method of rehydration is similar to Gatorade.
Pedialyte has lots of sodium and potassium, but less calories and less sugar than Gatorade.
After a night of drinking, the body releasesacetaldehydeandcytokines, two causes for nausea or headaches.
Your liver also gets overworked in an attempt to process all that alcohol.
Electrolytes help you retain more water and pee less, which is good for fast rehydration.
The 33.8oz container of Pedialyte has 1,012mg of Sodium and 768mg of Potassium.
It has 100 calories and 24g of carbohydrates.
Instead, its just that the chemicals produced when the body breaks down alcohol are toxic and pain-inducing.
The surest hangover cure, then, is something that the market doesnt generally prefer: patience.
The Pedialyte itself is truly helping because it is rehydrating, she says.
But any non-alcoholic decaffeinated beverage will do the same thing.
It also haseight low-calorie flavors, andfour flavors of a powder mix you might add to water.
Those same flavors also come infreezer popsandpowder packs.
One, 33.8oz container ofPedialyte retails for about $5.
Gatorade is the cheaper, easier to find option of the two.
Gatorade doesnt have as many electrolytes per bottle as Pedialyte, but its so much cheaper.
The number of flavor options means its more likely youll drink more Gatorade, which is all that matters.
If moneys not an issue, just go with whichever you like the taste of more.
Plus, water is much much cheaper.
Drink whatever tastes good and whatever you might keep down in your sorry state.
Photo byMike MozartandEnid Martindale.
