From Bodun?
The phrase “hangover” can have nothing to do with the New Year holidays, because
Bodun is a memorial day celebrated in the lower Vyatka.
It is well known in the Yaransky and Pizhansky districts of the Kirov region. About Writer Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ethnohistorian Vladimir Napolskikh. On this day, crowded families sit next to the graves of their loved ones, lay tablecloths on them, eat and drink.
Then, by chance, an accordionist starts walking down the middle path of the cemetery, his grieving relatives gradually join him and the songs begin. All this is accompanied by the loud cries of the women in the tombs, “banging” their heads on the ground. Hence “bodun”.
However, apparently, the stories about this memorial day spread so much that in Russia they began to call people “hangover” “headache” after a big drink.
This means that the head hurts a lot – it practically splits, dries out in the mouth, and all that remains is to get drunk.
True, here in this place experts divide people who feel bad “after a hangover” into two groups.
Some have typical poisoning, so they can no longer look at the vodka they drank too much yesterday. Others dream of vodka just because it will save them.
alcohol poisoning
Therefore, people who cannot see the vodka in the morning or the drink that poisoned them yesterday, in fact, do not experience a hangover, but after alcohol poisoning or intoxication.
“This condition can be called a ‘healthy person hangover,’” explains the Doctor of Biological Sciences, “Alcohol genes” researcher. Head of the genome analysis laboratory at the Institute of General Genetics. NI Vavilov RAS Svetlana Borinskaya. – Discomfort in this case is caused by the high content of alcohol oxidation products in the blood. From a medical point of view, this is not a hangover syndrome, but poisoning.
Symptoms of alcohol poisoning are completely similar to poisoning with any other product. But luckily it passes quickly.
It is these people who are sometimes saved by pickled cucumbers. The head of the laboratory of the All-Russian Research Institute of Canning Technology of Food Systems FNTs, you need to drink only brine from pickled cucumbers, not from pickles. VM Gorbatova Natalya Posokina.
“Pickled pickle brine has never been used for a hangover.
If we are talking about brine, it is either sauerkraut juice or pickled brine,
he is telling. “Cabbage juice is the best in my opinion. In addition to lactic acid bacteria, there are probiotics that help the digestive system cope with a hangover, there is a powerful antioxidant vitamin C, which is preserved as much as possible. Lactic acid fermentation in cabbage and cucumber does not just accumulate lactic acid. Yes, prevail “But along the way, acetic and succinic acids are formed there. There is very little amber, but it is a very good remedy to restore the body.”
According to Posokina, an attempt to drink brine from pickled cucumbers will lead to the development of a stomach ulcer, since it is only an acetic solution.
real hangover
A true hangover occurs in a person who drinks and becomes addicted to alcohol. The morning after drinking is very sick, and here the reason is the usual absence of alcohol in the blood – in other words, this is withdrawal syndrome, withdrawal when the drug is canceled. Here you can only save yourself a dose of alcohol – a hangover.
A hangover syndrome indicates that an alcoholic illness has occurred, that the person drinks regularly and is due to alcohol consumption.
This is a direct click path that makes the transition from New Year to Old Year almost imperceptible.
According to Borinskaya, the concept of “over-drinking” does not exist in the English scientific literature.
“In the British literature there is the concept of excess alcohol by taking a single large dose. But what is the realm (zapoС—), you need to explain. I explain it this way: strong drinking is a condition in which a person consumes alcohol for three or more days every day and refuses the usual types of social activities, ”says Svetlana Borinskaya.
Svetlana Borinskaya quotes the words of psychiatrist Pavel Beschastnov to describe the biochemical picture that occurs in the body of an alcoholic who experiences a real hangover.
“Blood pH shifts towards acidity (due to the formation of vinegar from alcohol). The blood loses ions and trace elements, primarily potassium, sodium, calcium and magnesium. The osmotic pressure of the blood drops, that is, water leaves the bloodstream and enters the tissues. From this: a) the blood thickens, b) the tissues swell. Therefore, the mucous membranes become dry (“dry mouth”), while the tissues, on the contrary, are edematous (swollen face). From the tissue flow there is also pallor and hyperhidrosis (sweating flows in a stream from a person, although with a developed abstinence syndrome, the tongue is as dry as an emery grater). Due to the thickening of the blood there is a sharp increase in the load on the heart, which is not easy anyway, because there is no potassium, and the conduction system of the heart suffers from this – and, as a result, rhythm disturbances . The heart beats irregularly and with effort. The pressure rises, causing a headache. Due to direct toxic damage, massive death and decay of liver cells (hepatocytes) and pancreas occurs, their contents are again mixed into the blood. So toxic hepatitis and pancreatitis are added to everything. Of course, in such cases there can be no talk of any normal functioning of the digestive system, so the person can not drink or eat, it will appear immediately. Plus, the peripheral nervous system is damaged, so everything trembles, and the legs go numb and take away, ”writes Beschastnov.
Doesn’t want but drinks
With a developed addiction, a person practically cannot resist drinking, make a conscious decision and implement it. Addicts stop drinking many times but then relapse.
“As one of the patients of the narcology hospital where we conducted the study said: “An ordinary person wants – drinks, does not want – does not drink. An alcoholic wants – drinks, does not want – drinks anyway, ”said Borinskaya.
Few people can stop this process on their own, most of them need the help of narcologists and psychologists, visits to therapeutic groups. At the same time, surveys show that the opinion that you can stop drinking at will is very common.
“Borinskaya says there is volitional regulation that is disrupted at the biochemical level in addicts.
– Therefore, relying on the “extracted link” is rather pointless. However, both the addicts themselves and their relatives often consider it unnecessary to seek help, unaware that the addiction has already formed. Or they try to brush aside the idea that a loved one has become addicted to the bottle, believing that he is not yet an alcoholic if he is not under the fence.
Therefore, on the New Year holidays, it will be most correct to “try on” the symptoms of post-intoxication and the symptoms of a real hangover, described by experts. And then to treat is already correct: either with brine, or indeed.