Some swear by dubious concoctions, including coffee with lemon, the other on a hearty Breakfast with scrambled eggs or roll mops. Hard-boiled just pick up the counter beer. Just endure and no one wants him: the hangover, this vicious cattle, which punishes any alcohol excess with headache, Nausea, and General despondency.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the unpleasant consequences of intoxication and left the magic away? With products like Katerfly or Hang&Over this should be possible. What suggest your name, the effervescent tablets and powder can be far more than you dare to hope from well-known Anti-hangover Tricks: Allegedly, they cause the cat to fly away just or temporary. What is it about such a promise?
Effectiveness not demonstrated
None of the alleged Anti-hangover agent has been in clinical trials, tested. Since there is as yet no evidence for their efficacy, are allowed to advertise the manufacturer is also not explicitly an Anti-hangover effect. On the labels, therefore, is usually only vaguely of a "revitalisierenden" Effect of the speech.
Not much more is to be expected given the ingredients well. The preparations contain, namely, unfortunately, is not a new miracle ingredient, reversing the harmful effects of alcohol in a moment. They are mainly made of vitamins and minerals, which even in normal food stuck or something used in higher doses in cheap effervescent tablets from the supermarket: Vitamin C, vitamins B2, B6 and B12, potassium, Magnesium, sodium, and zinc.
Minerals and vitamins the body can use after excessive Alcohol consumption, although quite good, since it leaves in a drunken state more urine and therefore more minerals. The hangover typical headaches are not caused by the loss of minerals or vitamins. Doctors assume, rather, that a lack of liquid causes the pain. And is easy to make by Drink (non-alcoholic beverages) fix.
Also, the alcohol-related gastro-intestinal complaints can not be a lack of any nutrients and, therefore, not by an extra dose of these substances relieve. That many – suffer from at the latest the day after the noise under violent Nausea, or even vomiting, is more likely that alcohol irritates the stomach and its toxic degradation damage to products nerves.
The potential effects of individual ingredients
Minerals and vitamins give the cat so unfortunately no wings. But what is with Superfoods such as Ginseng, or Prickly pear, which are included in some of the preparations? One must hope these plant extracts more?
Also their effectiveness is not yet sufficiently supported. The few studies that can be found, for example due to the small participant, and part of a large methodological shortcomings are not really meaningful.
The right frequently cited study on the Anti-hangover effect of red Ginseng came to a remarkable result: subjects who had drunk a Whiskey-Shot of water with Ginseng extract, reduced the alcohol faster than participants who had been served the Whiskey pure water. This study, however, is only partially trusted, because one of the authors works for the Korea Ginseng Corporation.
The Conclusion …
… is a sobering fact: A hangover is not a dietary Supplement, shoo. Who is just about to do his body the day after the Party, something Good should drink plenty of fluids, rest, maybe a relaxing walk and if the stomach is not rebelling then – mineral – and vitamin-rich Breakfast.
Anyone who has severe symptoms, should go to the doctor because: "Kater" sounds cute, but from a medical point of view, nothing more than acute alcohol poisoning, which can have dangerous consequences.
Sources
Alcohol (intoxication and dependence). Online information of ANVIL: www.amboss.de (status: 5.11.2019)
Court prohibits advertising for the Hangover-Shot: alcohol hangover is a disease. Online information of the German pharmacist’s newspaper: www.deutsche-apotheker-zeitung.de (status: 25.9.2019)
Palmer, E., et al.: Alcohol Hangover: Underlying Biochemical, Inflammatory and Neurochemical Mechanisms. Alcohol and Alcoholism, Vol. 54, Iss. 3 (may 2019)
Alcohol. The hangover – scientifically considered. Online information of the Pharmaceutical newspaper: www.pharmazeutische-zeitung.de (status: 28.2.2019)
Prickly pear: the help against soreness? Online information of medicine Transparent: www.medizin-transparent.at (as of 31.12.2017)
Lee, M-H., et al.: Red ginseng relieves the effects of alcohol consumption and hangover symptoms in healthy a randomized crossover study men. Food & Function, Vol. 5, Iss. 7, pp. 528-534 (December 2013)