How to Get Rid of Hangover Nausea Fast: Home Remedies & Medications

• Eat bland, fast-digesting carbs like toast, apple sauce, or crackers to settle your stomach.
• Drink plenty of fluids to rehydrate. Start with water, then add other liquids like fruit juice, soup broth, or sports drinks.
• Try over-the-counter medications like Pepto-Bismol, Alka-Seltzer and Nauzene to soothe your stomach. If you're throwing up, try Emetrol.

Natural Remedies

Snack on bland, fast-digesting carbs like toast or crackers. Eating is probably the last thing you want to do right now, but it is one of the best ways to help relieve nausea. Try nibbling on a little bit of dry toast or plain crackers. Continue eating little snacks until you feel well enough to have a meal. Go with something bland for your first full meal. Simple foods like rice, apple sauce, mashed potatoes, and oatmeal are easy to digest.

Drink plenty of fluids. Dehydration is one of the main causes of a hangover, so replenishing your fluids will help you feel better faster. Sip a full glass of water as soon as you wake up to start rehydrating. As your stomach begins to settle, feel free to add fluids like fruit juice, vegetable juice, soup broth, or sports drinks to replace lost salt, potassium, and electrolytes. Electrolyte-replacing products like Pedialyte are usually in liquid form, but you can also find freezer-pops and other options. Avoid drinking more alcohol to ease your symptoms. The "hair of the dog" remedy is a myth and will probably make you feel even worse. Skip soda and other high-sugar drinks while you're nauseous since they can make you feel worse.

Eat a banana or make a fruit smoothie. Bananas are bland, easy to eat, and replace lost potassium in your body. If you don't feel up to chewing anything quite yet, consider having a fruit smoothie. Liquids are a lot easier on the stomach when you're feeling nauseous, and the fruits can help replace fluids and nutrients. Drinking depletes your body's potassium levels, which contributes to hangover symptoms.

Sip on mint or ginger tea. Both mint and ginger are excellent herbs for soothing an upset stomach. Try brewing a warm mug of ginger or mint tea to replace lost fluids while easing stomach discomfort. Sip on the tea slowly until your nausea starts to subside.

Limit yourself to 1 cup of coffee (if you must have it). Coffee has long been considered a hangover cure, but this advice is misguided. A cup of coffee can help wake you up and ease a pounding head, but coffee can also aggravate your stomach. If you're a daily coffee drinker, try just having just 1 small cup. If you don’t usually drink coffee, it's better to avoid it completely when you have hangover nausea. If you suffer from acid reflux, avoid coffee altogether when you're hungover. Caffeine can make your acid reflux worse.

Over-the-Counter Medications

Drink Alka-Seltzer. Alka-seltzer contains aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid), sodium bicarbonate, and anhydrous citric acid. Aspirin is an anti-inflammatory and pain reliever, while the sodium bicarbonate and citric acid work to neutralize stomach acid. Drop 2 tablets into a small glass of water and drink it quickly.

Try bismuth subsalicylate (Pepto-Bismol). Bismuth subsalicylate (also called Kaopectate or Pepto-Bismol) can treat nausea, diarrhea, heartburn, indigestion, and upset stomach. Bismuth subsalicylate comes in liquid form, chewable tablets, and capsules. Read package instructions and follow dosage guidelines.

Take sodium citrate dihydrate if you want something salicylate-free. Sodium citrate dihydrate (also called Nauzene) comes in chewable tablets. You can begin with 2 tablets, and continue taking another tablet every 15 minutes until your symptoms subside. This product claims to work within 4 minutes. Do not take more than 24 tablets in a 24-hour period.

Try phosphorated carbohydrate solution (Emetrol) if you're vomiting. Phosphorated carbohydrate solution (also called Emetrol) is available over-the-counter and works by relaxing the stomach muscles. It is a good choice if you've already thrown up or if you feel like you can’t stop throwing up. Phosphorated carbohydrate solution comes in liquid form. Read and follow the instructions for dosage.

Relaxation and Self-Soothing Techniques

Take a warm shower. Sometimes a shower can really help you feel like yourself again. Try hopping in the shower, scrubbing up, and putting on some clean clothes. Removing the scents and smells from the night before might help ease your upset stomach. Plus, taking a shower is a nice way to hit the refresh button. Avoid making the water too hot or staying in there for too long. This can actually make your nausea worse.

Get plenty of rest. Hopefully, you have some time to sleep it off. In addition to dehydration, hangovers can be due to exhaustion. Try to go back to sleep or sneak in an afternoon nap. If you can’t fall back to sleep, try resting on the couch.

Give it some time. Although any of these methods might help you feel a little better, the truth is the best cure for a hangover is time. Give it a few hours (or in the worst cases, a full day) and you’ll feel right as rain again.