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People who consume alcohol to intoxication often experience what is known as a hangover. Hangovers result in unpleasant physical and mental symptoms including fatigue, headache, dizziness, and vertigo.

While there are some suggested treatments to curb the effects of hangover, the best way to prevent a hangover from occurring is not to consume alcohol. Since the effects of most hangovers subside after 8 to 24 hours, time is the most effective remedy for alcohol hangover symptoms.

Alcohol Hangover

Hangovers are a frequent, though unpleasant, experience among people who drink to intoxication. Despite the prevalence of hangovers, however, this condition is not well understood scientifically.

Multiple possible contributors to the hangover state have been investigated, and researchers have produced evidence that alcohol can directly promote hangover symptoms through its effects on urine production, the gastrointestinal tract, blood sugar concentrations, sleep patterns, and biological rhythms.

In addition, researchers postulate that effects related to alcohol’s absence after a drinking bout (i.e., withdrawal), alcohol metabolism, and other factors (e.g., biologically active, nonalcohol compounds in beverages; the use of other drugs; certain personality traits; and a family history of alcoholism) also may contribute to the hangover condition. Few of the treatments commonly described for hangover have undergone scientific evaluation.

What Is a Hangover?

A hangover is characterized by the constellation of unpleasant physical and mental symptoms that occur after a bout of heavy alcohol drinking. Physical symptoms of a hangover include fatigue, headache, increased sensitivity to light and sound, redness of the eyes, muscle aches, and thirst.

Signs of increased sympathetic nervous system activity can accompany a hangover, including increased systolic blood pressure, rapid heartbeat (i.e., tachycardia), tremor, and sweating. Mental symptoms include dizziness; a sense of the room spinning (i.e., vertigo); and possible cognitive and mood disturbances, especially depression, anxiety, and irritability.

Symptoms of Hangover

Class of Symptoms Type
Constitutional Fatigue, weakness, and thirst
Pain Headache and muscle aches
Gastrointestinal Nausea, vomiting, and stomach pain. Sleep and biological rhythms Decreased sleep, decreased REM(rapid eye movements), and increased slow-wave sleep.

Sensory Vertigo and sensitivity to light and sound. Cognitive Decreased attention and concentration.
Mood Depression, anxiety, and irritability
Sympathetic hyperactivity Tremor, sweating, and increased pulse and systolic blood pressure

The particular set of symptoms experienced and their intensity may vary from person to person and from occasion to occasion. In addition, hangover characteristics may depend on the type of alcoholic beverage consumed and the amount a person drinks.

Typically, a hangover begins within several hours after the cessation of drinking, when a person’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is falling. Symptoms usually peak about the time BAC is zero and may continue for up to 24 hours thereafter.

Overlap exists between hangover and the symptoms of mild alcohol withdrawal (AW), leading to the assertion that hangover is a manifestation of mild withdrawal. Hangovers, however, may occur after a single bout of drinking, whereas withdrawal occurs usually after multiple, repeated bouts.

Other differences between hangover and AW include a shorter period of impairment (i.e., hours for hangover versus several days for withdrawal) and a lack of hallucinations and seizures in hangover.

People experiencing a hangover feel ill and impaired. Although a hangover may impair task performance and thereby increase the risk of injury, equivocal data exist on whether hangover actually impairs complex mental tasks.

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You are not alone in suffering from these problems.

Also Norwegians and swedes experience the same. The only difference, is that Norwegians and swedes have a greater number of people to chose their friends from.

If you notice that someone is jealous or try to put you down, you just turn your back to them and focus on people having a positive affect on your life.

This is so much harder for Kenyans and others that are a minority in our society. It’s therefore very important to find common grounds and simply divert from issues that divides you.

People will always disagree, but what’s wrong in that? Just agree to disagree and stay civilized. There’s no need for name-calling or demeaning comments.

Discussions are seldom a negative thing, but the way people discuss and argue can be very negative.

Everywhere, where there’s progress there’s friction from people disagreeing. Those disagreements are often the source and reason for progress.

I think that the recent debate has been healthy for the Kenyan Society, even though sad for the Maggero family.

However, it’s good that the “grass-roots” now has started to raise their voice. Hopefully, this will be the start of a stronger Kenyan Society where Kenyan and Scandinavian culture can unify.

Remember that many Kenyans in Scandinavia today, are of 2′nd and even 3′rd generation immigrants.

Being a Norwegian living outside Norway, I know how easy it is to exaggerate your patriotism and cultural identity. It is definitely healthy to remember where you come from, as long as it does not prevent you from adjusting to your new country.

It’s very confusing for a young person, when the parents and other authority persons are busy fighting the cultural influence from the country where they actually stay.

Instead, let’s all embrace and respect each other’s cultures. This also applies to Kenyans of different tribal origin. Tribalism and racism should not be allowed in our society.

Finally, I want to encourage all Kenyans – young & old, liberated or not – to speak up and take part in building the new Kenyan Society. Together, we are strong…

By Lars Nyquist

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BBC reports that, “about 600,000 people in Kenya’s capital live in the Kibera slums, East Africa’s largest informal settlement.”

This is a slum in the Langata constituency represented by Raila Odinga who is now running for the presidency in Kenya.

The new world boss, “UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has been to the slum on his first visit to Africa, assessing challenges the UN faces in trying to reduce poverty.”

Raila has represented the area for many years now. It must have become difficult for him to make changes in the area because, “congestion is a major problem. There is not even the space to build toilets.”

To live in an area without toilets must be the most difficult thing because diseases thrive well under such circumstances. “Some frustrated residents use polythene bags commonly known as “flying toilets” to dispose of human waste.”

It is not known what steps Raila will take to change the lives of the people in the area if elected president, because the people of Kibera are faced with health hazards everyday. 

By Korir,

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<Mr Castro struggles on.

BBC reports that the “Cuban television has shown its first pictures for three months of ailing leader Fidel Castro. Mr Castro, 80, was seen standing during a meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, which was said to have taken place on Monday.”

Many had started to write him off , but the Cuban leader is not ready to go. “He appeared frail but stronger than three months ago.”

Since his health stopped him from his presidential duties, “Mr Castro has not been seen in public since undergoing gastric surgery in July, prompting speculation that he has cancer or is terminally ill.”

By Korir,

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Rescue crews found Jonny Roger Seem after he’d been missing for nearly three days in the mountains. PHOTO: Ludvig Killingberg jr. / Scanpix All of Seem’s dogs survived the harrowing experience in the mountains as well. PHOTO: Ludvig Killingberg jr. / SCANPIX

*”A 41-year-old Norwegian was thanking his dogs for helping him survive outdoors for nearly three harrowing days, after getting lost in the mountains during a violent snow storm.

Jonny Roger Seem was also deeply grateful for the massive search and rescue operation that went on most of the weekend. But he believes it was his team of dogs that saved his life.

“The weather was so bad that they simply laid down (in the snow), as if they were saying ‘here’s where we’re camping,’ and then their driver just had to do the same,” Seem told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) after rescue crews finally found him and his 12 dogs late Saturday night.

“They were the sensible ones, when I wanted to keep going.”

Seem could initially send out calls for help from his mobile phone on Thursday, but its battery eventually wore out and police, military and volunteer rescue crews had no contact with him from late Friday afternoon. The search had to be called off Friday night because of the storm and lack of visibility.

Seem is an experienced dog-sledder and had set off on a route between Sunndal and Oppdal in the mountains of central Norway. The search was concentrated in an area of Møre og Romsdal just east of Sunndalsøra.

Seem said he could often hear scooters but didn’t manage to make contact. A helicopter that joined the search had to turn back because of the weather. So Seem had little choice but to gather his dogs around him and lie in his sled with a blanket over him while he waited for help. He said he was freezing the entire time.

“I had on normal touring clothes, but they were quite wet,” he said. He realized he needed to stay calm with his dogs. He said his relief at being found was indescribable.

Rescue crews said Seem was in amazingly good shape when he turned on his headlamp to attract the attention of a search team he could hear close by. He was taken to a nearby hospital but doctors couldn’t find any visible injuries. His dogs were also in good shape and all but two were able to trot back down the mountain themselves.

“I really want to thank all those who joined the search, they did a great job,” Seem said. “And I apologize to all the skiers who didn’t get their slopes groomed this weekend, because all the preparation machines were being used to look for me.”*

By Nina Berglund

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