Coffee Cure For Hangovers: It Works in Mice!

A new scientific study may give you the best solution to the hangover from last night's binge drinking - a cup of steaming hot coffee and a painkiller.

Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, conducted the study in mice, in which they injected doses of ethanol.

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The doses usually trigger headaches in people prone to migraine. Michael Oshinsky and his colleagues found that 4 to 6 hours later, the skin around the rats' eyes became sensitive to touch, indicating that they were suffering from a headache, reports New Scientist.

Oshinsky said that the rats were not dehydrated and they received pure ethanol. Also, contrary to the fact that acetaldehyde build-up is the reason for hangovers, the rats didn't suffer the headache from it because they were given drugs to block conversion of acetaldehyde into acetate.

The reason caffeine and over-the-counter anti-inflammatory drugs seem to provide relief is because they block some of the effects of acetate.

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If that really is the case, the best time to take them would be about 4 hours after drinking, when acetate levels begin to increase.

Dan Levy at Harvard University is wary of calling the rats' headache a hangover, but says the study is an important step towards understanding alcohol-triggered headache.

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The study appears in PloS.

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