Not Throw up when Drunk

After a hectic night out, the alcohol you consumed may have left you feeling nauseated and on the verge of tossing your cookies. This could be caused by over drinking, dehydration, or it could be a signal from your body to pump your brakes on the party. Whenever you start feeling sick, you should take measures to keep your upset stomach from becoming an external issue.

Steps

Settling Your Stomach through Consumption

1. Drink water throughout your alcohol excursion. If you're prone to vomiting, you might want to alternate each alcoholic beverage with a glass of water during the night. In the event you get very drunk and perhaps a little nauseous, switch entirely to water. Drink water steadily, but never chug or drink water to excess, as this can upset your stomach.
   • Inexperienced drinkers sometimes drink too much water out of fear of becoming dehydrated. Drink water throughout the night, but not to uncomfortable excess.
2. Eat something beforehand. Alcohol filters quickly into blood from the stomach, and most quickly from the small intestine to the stomach. If you don't have food in your stomach, the alcohol will absorb into your blood intoxicating you rapidly, which could leave your world spinning and your stomach heaving. A little food in your tummy can be the difference between a night on the town and vomit city.
   • Food high in fat content, like most bar food, takes a considerable time to digest in your stomach, making it the perfect choice for the start of your night out.
   • Healthy pre-drinking foods include: nuts, avocados, and seeds.
3. Use over the counter medicine. It is important to use a remedy that agrees with your system, so if chalky antacids don't usually calm your upset stomach, popping one of these might not be the best solution. If you have a default over the counter medicine you use for upset stomachs or nausea, take it preemptively when you begin feeling queasy.
4. Restore your potassium. One of the biggest causes of both hangover and drinking related nausea is dehydration. Dehydration occurs when your body either doesn't have enough water in its system or else can't hold onto water because it doesn't have the right balance of electrolytes. As an important electrolyte, you might help your body retain water by eating a food high in potassium, like a banana.
5. Drink electrolyte restoring drinks. But be careful when considering a sports drink, as most sports drinks have modified formulas loaded with sugar, which are more palatable to the general population. These sugary drinks, however, could lead to more dehydration.
6. Consume ginger. Plenty of studies agree that ginger has powerful anti-nausea properties that you can enjoy when drinking ginger tea or ginger soda. You can add powdered ginger to food or drink, chew on a piece of raw ginger, or eat a ginger candy to enjoy ginger's stomach soothing influence.
7. Try fennel seeds. These have been found to aid digestion and lessen the effects of nausea. One tablespoon of crushed fennel seeds stepped in water for 10 minutes will create a sour stomach easing brew.
   • Chewing a teaspoon of fennel seeds, while maybe not the most appealing option, might also save you from throwing up.

Preventing Vomiting with Pro-activity

1. Know your limit. This often is a matter of trial and error, however make sure you learn from the errors. Generally, your limit will be linked to your weight and gender. Women, being generally smaller, weighing less, and having a naturally higher fat content, have a natural handicap when drinking alcohol. Generally, moderate (and likely nausea free) drinking entails:
   • Men
     • 100 - 149 lbs: 1 - 2 drinks per hour
     • 150 - 200+ lbs: 2 - 3 drinks per hour
   • Women
     • 90 - 100 lbs: 1 drink per hour
     • 101 - 180 lbs: 1 - 2 drinks per hour
     • 181 - 200+ lbs: 2 - 3 drinks per hour
2. Stop drinking when you've reached your limit. This is harder than it sounds, especially when friends are encouraging you to have another and your inhibitions are lowered by the alcohol you've already had.
   • A good defense is to say, "If I have another I'll be sick." This is especially useful if you're talking to the person that lives wherever you're drinking.
3. Get some fresh air. Cooling yourself off is a big part of feeling better. Parties tend to get hot, and going outside will relieve you of this oppressive, potentially vomit-inducing atmosphere. As an added bonus, if you do vomit it won't be while you're surrounded by people, and throwing up outside requires less involved clean up.
4. Listen to your body. If you get close to vomiting, if you heave or gag, the best policy to ensure you do not vomit is to call it quits drinking for the night. Especially after you vomit, even if you feel much better, drinking more could lead to more vomiting and potentially something more serious, like alcohol poisoning.
5. Apply accupressure to your wrist. Though not definitively proven to help with nausea, most doctors don't see any harm in using accupressure to receive relief. Find the Neiguan (P-6) pressure point on your inner arm. Position your hand so that your palm is facing upwards. Place your middle three fingers across the wrist starting where the wrist meets your hand. The outside of the finger closest your body should mark this pressure point P-6. Now you can use your thumb to press this point, moving in a circular motion for a short period of time.
   • You might gain additional relief by repeating this process on your other wrist.
6. Avoid excess motion. It may offer you relief if you rest in a sitting or lying on your left side, in a propped up position. Activity may worsen nausea and can even cause vomiting.

Tips

• If you do vomit, drink lots of water. If you end up vomiting again it's way better to vomit water than dry heave.
• Avoid drinks that upset your stomach, whether it be a shot of tequila, or something worse like a cement mixer or a prairie fire. Have a few of these and you can end up nearly sober and still vomiting.
• Variety can be dangerous when drinking. It's easy to lose track of drink strength when you change your drink every time. Sticking to one kind of alcohol helps many keep from drinking too much.
• If you're feeling very nauseous, be a good guest and go somewhere you won't make a mess. Toilets are a good place, but at big parties these will frequently busy. A sink with a garbage disposal or a place outside are good backups.
• If you're at party where people are playing drinking games, play before you're very drunk. Drinking games encourage rapid drinking, which is easier to handle when sober. If you join a game already wasted, it's very likely you'll end up vomiting.
• When reaching a high level of intoxication, the room might begin to spin around you. Different people have different solutions to handle this unpleasantness. Some argue keeping your eyes open, or getting up and doing something, but by putting your head so that it’s hanging downwards, perhaps leaning over the edge of something, you will negate the internal cause of the spins. Another option that may help is covering one eye and take deep breaths.

Warnings

• Vomiting is your body's defense mechanism from you consuming too much of a dangerous material. Listen to your body.
• Always exercise proper caution while drinking, and never drink and drive.

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