New Year’s Eve often rhymes with excess. Often hearty meals, alcohol … some will not escape the headache or nausea this Saturday. Courage, we will try to help you cope. The details of Géraldine Zamansky, journalist for the Health magazine on France 5.
franceinfo: how to get out of this difficult backlash that some call a liver crisis?
Geraldine Zamansky: one of the main causes of symptoms such as headache or nausea is dehydration. It is directly caused by alcohol. Because imagine that once arrived in our brain, one of its components disrupts the control of the volumes of water in the body by the kidneys. We urinate too much. So the organs lack water and suffer. The aftermath of a party can result in a mushy tongue, severe headache and cramps. So the first tip is to drink water.
Then rest assured, especially those who still have this damn headache, I will not go into all the other harmful mechanisms of alcohol. But they can explain sweating and a strange heartbeat … or even hypoglycemia, that is to say a lack of sugar at the origin of a certain weakness when waking up.
Okay, for the alcohol related symptoms, it will go away with water and rest… But what about the nausea and sore stomach. Isn’t our liver overheating?
Yes, I did not fully answer your question on this famous “liver attack”. Well no, if we eat too much one evening… or one night, it is especially the gall bladder, located not very far from the liver, which is overheated and which can be painful. Because it must deliver a lot of bile to digest this rather “heavy” meal. It is moreover this quantity of food which a priori explains the possible nausea and stomach ache: a kind of overflow.
And then, sorry, but alcohol also irritates the lining of the stomach and intestines, so it doesn’t make things easier. To get better, everyone finds the solution on their own: eat much lighter meals and wait.
We can not find capsules or other herbal teas “detox” to facilitate the elimination of these excesses?
The only real solution, it is to limit the follies of the New Year’s Eve .. to the New Year’s Eve. Today and in the next few days, eat green vegetables, fruits and drink water instead. No scientific study has really validated these famous so-called “detox” products.
The announced target is often the liver. The argument is that this organ plays a crucial role as a filter that should be “cleaned” like in your washing machine. But in fact, he is very good at doing it on his own. Except, be careful, if he is doing badly because of regular excess outside of New Years Eve on the alcohol side but also on the sugar side. In case of doubt, the ideal is then to talk to your doctor or to self-help associations. … Perhaps this is the occasion to take a break with the “dry january”, January without alcohol?