Pedialyte

You can find this bad boy in the baby formula aisle. Originally meant for young infants, this stuff is packed with the electrolytes your body is so desperately craving (even more than sports drinks, which could also work if you don’t have Pedialyte on hand).

FUN FACT: Pedialyte found out about the discovery post-party-goers made and began marketing their product to hungover adults (photo above courtesy of their twitter account). The result? A MASSIVE increase in sales. Because it works.

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Eggs

Chow down on the breakfast staple for a multitude of reasons. Not only are they a delicious part of a balanced breakfast, but eggs have two crucial ingredients that help ease your hangover into a dull memory: one boosts liver function, helping your overworked organ get rid of the leftovers from last night, the other fights the asshole chemicals causing your raging headache.

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Pickle juice

Don’t knock it till you try it. The main ingredients (vinegar, salt, and water) help re-hydrate and replenish your depleted electrolyte and sodium levels. It’s actually been recommended to do a shot of this before you go out, too. (Cue the Picklebacks!)

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Hair of the Dog

This one doesn’t work for everyone, but we’ve met plenty of people who can attest to it’s help in easing the pain (and what are you going to do, NOT get a Bloody Mary with brunch? Please). The setback, though, is that it doesn’t actually get rid of the hangover. Instead, it delays your pain until later in the day where it could potentially come back tenfold. So our suggestion is to try it and then use the delay as extra time to find a cure (that makes sense, right?). And maybe eat some eggs. It is brunch, after all.

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Virgin Mary

Don’t quite trust the logic in that last option? Understandable. Just cut out the vodka and sip on tomato juice. The science behind it is detailed, extensive, and, if we’re being honest, wayy too much to handle as a hungover person who’s looking for a cure asap. We’ll put it simply: tomato juice picks up the slack while your poor liver is busy playing catch up. Get a boost of energy and lose that headache.

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Coffee

Hungover holy water. Get it hot if it’s cold out, get it iced if you’re still sweating out the toxins – whatever you need to get it down. The caffeine kills the headache (and if you can’t decide where to get one, we’ve got you covered for that, too). NOTE: if you aren’t already much of a coffee drinker, many people don’t recommend starting now – it may actually make your hangover worse.

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Aspirin

OBVIOUSLY. Everyone knows this one already, so this hangover-helper is here for two reasons besides that. One: We wanted to give the best aspirin option (Advil, Tylenol, Aleve, etc), and ours is Excedrin Extra Strength. It’s got the added bonus of caffeine in addition to pain killers to fight a heavy headache. Basically, EES is to hangovers as Rhonda Rousey is to everyone. Reason two: not everyone knows the importance of putting something in your stomach along with your aspirin choice, otherwise you could risk doing damage to your stomach lining and that is no bueno. Eat at least the next option and you’ll be set.

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Dry toast or crackers

For those of you who have the unfortunate brand of hangover that consists mostly of nausea, give this a shot (Sorry! No pun intended, apologies if the poor word choice brought up bad memories). Post-binge, you need to raise your blood sugar while simultaneously not upsetting your delicate esophageal reflexes. Bland, dry toast will give you exactly what you need.

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Water

Again: OBVIOUS. The alcohol drained your body of all the liquid it needs to run at full capacity, if you don’t reach for this first thing in the morning (afternoon?) then you’re setting yourself up for disaster. The best idea is to drink water as the night goes on, preferably one glass per every drink, but it gets hard to keep up when THAT GUY shows up and buys rounds of shots to play catch up. Bonus points for preemptively placing a bottle of this next to your bed before you pass out.

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Exercise

Personally, we can’t imagine doing more activity than pulling on pants while still laying down, but studies shows that this is actually one of the better ways to nip your brutal hangover in the bud. Even if you look like everyone in this picture, science says it’s best to just push on through. The endorphin rush will boost your miserable mood and the calories you burn off will not only help you sweat out the rest of last night’s toxins, but also make you feel a little less terrible about how much you actually drank (do you KNOW how many calories were in all those shots you took? 100. 100 f*cking calories in every last one of them). Just make sure to bring water with you so you don’t get even more dehydrated.

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