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How to prevent a hang-over after heavy drinking Good advice by Dr Harold The hang over symptoms after a heavy binge the night before are: – headache, dry tongue and mouth, nausea and vomiting, running to the toilet and dizziness, among others. Every sip of alcohol you consume is absorbed immediately into the blood stream through the stomach lining, and the rest through the small gut. Your body cells being permeable, alcohol will diffuse into your tissues. Most people believe that alcohol makes you sleep well. Just the opposite and you tend to get up many times in the night and may not be able to sleep further, at all. Drinking more than two drinks a day is problematic. Five or more drinks a day for men and four for women is considered binge drinking. In the body the alcohol turns into acetaldehyde and this is a poison and is carcinogenic. ...