Feeling dizzy and having dry mouth? Terribly aching body muscles and fatigue? Thirsty and nauseous?
Well, you are not alone. These are some of the most common symptoms of the miserable morning after. Yes, you are not alone at all. In fact, almost everyone has had one of those.
What had actually happened after that night out?
Hangover or its clinical term, Morning After Syndrome, varies in its severeness and duration from one sufferer a.k.a party animal to another.
It all started with the excessive or high level of alcohol in the bloodstream.
About 95% of the content in alcoholic drink is broken down in the liver. What's left is excreted in the sweat, breath and urine. When the intake outpaces output, blood alcohol level remains higher longer, and the likelihood of hangover increases.
Morning-after aches and pains begin to make themselves felt as blood alcohol levels start to fall, generally an hour or so following the last drink of the night.
The worst symptoms strike 8-10 hours later, with the full recovery cycle spreading out hours beyond.
This prolonged rebound is believed to stem from the body's slow adjustment to the absence of alcohol.
In fact, some researchers think that hangovers represent a mild form of alcohol withdrawal.Others argue that the hangover is only a response to the toxic effects of ethanol, liquor's psychoactive ingredient.
As for the sufferers, they know it well enough who's to be blame, who's the culprit. It is none other than the booze.
