When you get home:

• Take a couple of painkillers (Ibuprofen-based ones like Neurofen are good, but paracetemol or aspirins will do), with – you guessed it – a pint of water. Take another pint (or a huge bottle) to bed with you – try not to knock it over.

• If you haven't already, eat. Stodge of any kind is good but try to avoid dodgy Doners and curries – I know they're a British
  after-pub institution but they tend to give you a rough stomach, the runs, a temperature and so add to your hangover, is it really worth it?

The day after:

• Right, if you failed to follow our excellent advice (and it's likely that most of it went out the window after a couple of sherberts), or even if you did and still woke up feeling like the world's ending, don't panic. Here's what to do:

• Take a couple of Neurofen (or any painkillers) and down as much water as you can. If you're more of a natural remedy merchant and want to know what's on offer hangover-wise,
  click here .

  
• Eat a stodgy breakfast of a bacon butty, the full Monty fry-up (if you can make it to the local Greasy Spoon), beans on toast etc. If that's too much effort in your condition, toast, bagels, crumpets or even cold pizza are all good – if it's got carbohydrate, it's a goer. This is one occasion when you're let off the low-fat diet – you need calories and even if they're from a Maccie Ds or a Burger King, that's acceptable. Be warned, tho', fast food doesn't contain much carb so it won't fill you up – you're likely to be hungry around 10 minutes after eating it.

• Get some air. Even if it's just to walk to the corner shop for a big scoff stock-up, get your arse outside for a while.

• And so to bed. Not forgetting the vital ingredient in getting through a hangover – sleep. Even if you log it for 12 hours on the night you got pissed, you can still get up feeling absolutely knackered the next day. Why is this? Just make sure that on the night of your suffering you get to bed early and get some quality zeds. The next day it'll all look different.

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