Are there any medicines that can help you get rid of alcohol?

As the Spring Festival approaches, dinner parties are inevitable, and drinking is always necessary at dinner parties. The medicines in pharmacies that claim to be able to sober up are once again in hot demand. So the question is, the merchants say that Arirang hangover remedy can make you drink alcohol boldly and safely, does it really have such a magical effect? To this end, doctors said that the effect of hangover remedies is minimal, and long-term use is harmful to the body. So, what are some good ways to sober up?

So far, there is no real medicine for sobering up. When hospitals rescue drunk patients in the emergency room, they usually use gastric lavage, intravenous injection of glucose or saline to speed up the decomposition of alcohol. Most of the "hangover remedies" sold on the market are health products or foods, and cannot achieve the so-called magical effects. Experts say that the human body mainly relies on three pathways to break down alcohol: the liver, skin and respiratory system, among which the liver is the most important. After alcohol enters the liver, it is converted into carbon dioxide and water through a series of chemical reactions and eventually excreted. If you want to reduce the harm of drinking to your body, you should not drink excessively and you should not drink on an empty stomach. At present, in pharmacies, hangover sobering products are mostly sold as health products rather than medicines. The packaging is marked with the words "Health and Food" and the precautions state that "This product cannot replace the therapeutic effects of drugs." If you really need to take hangover-relieving medicine or tea, Liu Zhenming suggested, "You must identify the product number and give priority to functional health food (original health product)-level Chinese herbal compound prescriptions. Since they require the use of ingredients that are both medicinal and edible, they are the safest and have basically no side effects. However, pharmaceutical-level hangover-relieving products may have some side effects depending on the ingredients." In addition, many people believe that drinking tea can sober them up after drinking. Some people also say that drinking tea can sober them up. Regarding this issue, the doctor explained that this statement is also unscientific, because the metabolic products of alcohol are mainly excreted through the kidneys, but the tea alkaloids in tea may cause the alcohol that has not yet been decomposed to enter the kidneys too early, causing damage to the body. Therefore, it is best to drink boiled water after drinking, and not tea.

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