The only true hangover cure is likely prevention, and there’s an app for that.

There could be several reasons, according to experts – the primary reason of which being that… well, that it’s just easier to get drunk.

A Dunoon tavern in Cape Town was slapped with an R500,000 fine on Friday, after taking the decision to keep selling alcohol in defiance of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions.

Many regular drinkers will spend a total of two years of their life hungover, according to estimations from a drinking survey reported in Elite Daily. There are few things more uncomfortable than the aftermath of alcohol consumption. Every person who has suffered from the headaches, nausea, fatigue, dehydration, intestinal discomfort, dry mouth and other symptoms that accompany the morning after has tried a few of the many suggested remedies. Some work and some don’t. Real “cures” are even less prevalent, but there are substances in existence that can ease the worst hangovers.

New research, now published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, investigates whether the order in which we drink beer and wine has any impact on the severity of our hangover.

When we think of having a few drinks, most of us think about an evening out with friends and co-workers. But, if you’ve ever been a football tailgate or a brunch that lasted longer than expected, you’ve definitely experienced the delight known as day drinking.

Being hungover is anathema to weekend excellence. You wake up with a mouth like the Sahara desert, drool on the pillow, and a headache that feels like a drill to the brain. Luckily, one of the most tried and true methods of combating the effects of a hangover is to dust yourself off and start drinking again.

So the pattern goes: we have one too many drinks the night before, and wake up desperate for either the rewind button or a quick remedy.

The party season is officially here and with it (and all to often) come the after effects — that dreadful hangover.

MANY of us know all too well the consequences associated with a big night of drinking. The headache, dry mouth, uneasy stomach and general feeling of self-pity.