Incorrect hangover remedies can be harmful: drinking strong tea to sober up is like pouring gasoline on a fire.

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2012-04-10

As the New Year's Day and Spring Festival approach, professionals find themselves juggling numerous social engagements and gatherings, often leading to frequent alcohol consumption. Not only does excessive drinking severely harm the body, but it can also create significant disruptions in daily life. While many people are familiar with common hangover remedies, using incorrect methods can actually do more harm than good. For instance, drinking strong tea to relieve a hangover is akin to pouring gasoline on a fire. People commonly believe that sipping strong tea after getting drunk helps ease the effects of alcohol—but medical experts warn that this practice only exacerbates the situation. Alcohol stimulates the nervous system, causing an increased heart rate, widened blood vessels, and faster blood circulation. When someone is intoxicated, this stimulating effect intensifies, turning what might otherwise be manageable into something far more dangerous.

　　As New Year's Day and the Spring Festival approach, people in the workplace shuttle between various social engagements and gatherings. Frequent drinking not only causes significant harm to the body but also brings many inconveniences to life. Many hangover remedies are well known, but if the methods used are incorrect, they can be very harmful.

　　Strong tea to sober up is like adding fuel to the fire.

　　People usually believe that drinking strong tea after getting drunk helps sober up, but medical experts point out that using strong tea to sober up is like adding fuel to the fire.

　　Alcohol entering the human body stimulates the nervous system, causing the heart to beat faster, blood vessels to dilate, and blood flow to accelerate. When a person is drunk, this stimulation intensifies and turns into an adverse irritation. The theophylline and caffeine contained in tea also have stimulating effects, which for the heart of a drunk person is like adding fuel to the fire, further increasing the heart's burden. Drinking tea after alcohol, especially strong tea after getting drunk, causes the theophylline in tea to quickly pass through the kidneys and produce a strong diuretic effect. As a result, the alcohol in the body enters the kidneys prematurely before being broken down into carbon dioxide and water, which harms health. Therefore, the saying "strong tea to sober up" is not only scientifically unfounded but also extremely harmful.

　　Drinking vinegar to sober up increases mucous membrane irritation.

　　After heavy drinking, alcohol severely irritates the gastrointestinal mucosa, causing congestion in the stomach and duodenum, increased gastric acid secretion, and promoting large amounts of pancreatic juice production. Drinking vinegar at this time not only worsens the irritation of the gastrointestinal mucosa but also easily induces diseases such as gastric and duodenal ulcers or acute pancreatitis.

　　Using soda to sober up is very dangerous.

　　Soda damages the human gastrointestinal tract, stimulates the gastric mucosa, reduces gastric acid secretion, affects the production of digestive enzymes, and can even cause acute gastroenteritis and gastric spasms. Some people with gastrointestinal diseases who drink a lot of soda after getting drunk may suffer severe bleeding in the stomach and duodenum. People with abnormal blood pressure who drink soda after alcohol may experience a rapid rise in blood pressure.

　　Inducing vomiting by gagging to sober up can be fatal.

　　Many people, after drinking too much, take advantage of going to the bathroom to "gag" and vomit the alcohol out, then return to the drinking scene to show off their "large capacity." Little do they know, although the alcohol is vomited out, the stomach has not escaped its "misfortune."

　　Gagging to induce vomiting is an unscientific way to sober up and can easily cause acute conditions such as gastric bleeding and acute pancreatitis, harming the body. During intense vomiting, abdominal pressure increases, which can cause gastric bleeding. Sometimes, intoxicated individuals with unclear consciousness may inhale vomit into their lungs, posing risks such as choking.

　　Experts believe the best way to protect the body is to drink less alcohol. If it is unavoidable, be sure to eat some food first to line the stomach, as drinking on an empty stomach causes the greatest irritation to the esophagus and stomach. Those who rely on "hangover pills" to evade detection, increase alcohol tolerance, or protect the liver will ultimately only damage their liver and stomach.

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