New remedy for a hangover: a vitamin cocktail
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Intravenous injections of vitamins have become the latest popular anti-hangover method among residents of Western countries. But this fashion is gradually moving to Ukraine. Our country is known for its quivering attitude towards the use of alcoholic beverages and a variety of ways of alcoholic-beating. But grandmother's pickles go back in time before the latest scientific developments. One of them is intravenous injection of vitamins.
Last month, in the blog of singer Rihanna on the site of "Twitter" appeared a photo, in which the star captured itself immediately after a stormy party with a lot of alcohol. Rihanna lay on the bed with a dropper, getting a vitamin cocktail through her veins. Last year, the creator of numerous "star factories" Englishman Simon Cowell also admitted that he uses this way to fight the hangover.
An increasing number of people consider vitamin cocktails as a magical tool with which they can afford to spend the whole night on alcohol in a club without fear of consequences. True, a significant number of doctors and other experts warn that such procedures not only contribute to increasing the amount of alcohol that people absorb but also pose a considerable danger to human health and life.
In inept hands, this procedure can cause many side effects - from minor infections to potentially deadly anaphylactic shock (severe allergic reaction). And yet, regulars of clubs continue to pump in themselves vitamin cocktails for preventive purposes once a month. They say that with their help they are charged with energy and better tolerate the load. As a rule, such cocktails include vitamin C, vitamin complex, minerals of selenium, magnesium, zinc and chromium.
