Tips For Responsible Drinking This Holiday Season Jan 1, 2008
"Veisalgia" is a term for hangover. It is derived from the Norwegian and Greek languages and means pain and uneasiness after debauchery. (WNBC.com, NY)
Newsweek: Why hangovers can't be cured Dec 13, 2007
In medical terms, this full-body assault is called veisalgia. While hangovers have plagued revelers since early hominids kicked back with some date-palm wine, science still doesn't have a good understanding of how your I-love-everybody yuletide cheer turns into such a biological bah-humbug. (MSNBC -- Health)
Seasonal hangovers: Tricks to help you power through Dec 22, 2006
Otherwise known as veisalgia, these symptoms are the result of dehydration (because alcohol impairs the kidneys' ability to hold onto fluids), poor sleep (because alcohol alters levels of certain neuro-transmitters, causing brain cells to be hyperexcitable), and inflammation (because the impurities in most alcoholic drinks lead to an inflammatory response that produces flulike symptoms like achy muscles), says hangover researcher Jeffrey Wiese, M.D., an associate professor of medicine at the... (CNN -- Health)
