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" We\u00A0know the feeling. You&amp;#039;ve used up all your holiday time, it&amp;#039;s Christmas party season and you&amp;#039;re faced with the inevitable struggle of\u00A0a hangover at work. We feel your pain.\u00A0We really feel your pain. Seeing as your boss probably isn&amp;#039;t forthcoming with the bacon butty, Team Cosmo tested out five desk-side hangover cures that\u00A0might\u00A0just see you through until bed time (read: 7pm), but do they really work?   1. The preventative pill Fresh Start\u00A0claim if you take 1 or 2 natural supplement\u00A0pills a few hours before drinking, your hangover will be reduced the next morning.\u00A0Here&amp;#039;s what Cat Jenner-Harvey had to say about the whole thing.. &amp;quot;Normally I&amp;#039;m not cut out for consecutive nights out, which is how I know these preventative hangover tablets work like a DREAM.\u00A0I went out three nights in a row and attained an impressive standard of drunkness (is that a thing?) across all three nights, all of which should have warranted a hella-hangover.&amp;quot; Did it work? &amp;quot;I slayed that dragon; nipped it in the bud fast and with a quick sip of water and one of these Fresh Start\u00A0tablets before the first sip of wine was necked, I was hangover free. YUP, they worked.&amp;quot; Rating:\u00A05 stars.   2. Milk thistle tablets Milk Thistle\u00A0is a herb that apparently helps detoxify the liver and mop up the toxins alcohol leaves in your body, which in turn prevents your hangover, but we weren&amp;#039;t so convinced... &amp;quot;I had a cracking hangover the morning after and a really busy day at work, so when someone suggested I tried a milk thistle tablet to ease the pain, I was right on board. I popped two with a glass of water and waited. And waited. And waited.&amp;quot; Did it work?\u00A0&amp;quot;If anything, I felt worse. It did absolutely NOTHING to make me feel better, and as my general hangover got worse, I felt it at every single stage.\u00A0 &amp;quot;Apparently it works better in tincture and you&amp;#039;re meant to take a couple of tablets before you drink, but it did nout for me, soz.&amp;quot; Rating:\u00A01 star, out of kindness.    3. The ginger packed juice Overhang\u00A0revitalising drink\u00A0says that its secret recipe of vitamins will help reduce tiredness and fatigue, but what did we make of it? &amp;quot;The packaging didn&amp;#039;t exactly fill me with hope \u2013 I was expecting a medicinal-tasting concoction that would turn my stomach and make my hangover even worse. But it was actually delicious. A bit like a flat ginger beer with orange squash, but not as sugary sweet. I ended up throwing it in a pint glass with some ice cubes and downed it in minutes.   Did it work?\u00A0&amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s hard to know really, while I&amp;#039;m not convinced that it did anything for my hangover - it&amp;#039;d need more ginger and vitamins\u00A0for that - it hydrated me, got some sugar in my system and tasted great. Always a positive.&amp;quot; Rating:\u00A02 stars.    4. Coconut water Vita Coco\u00A0coconut water\u00A0is packed full of potassium, electrolytes and vitamins which apparently are supposed to replace all the good things in your body that you lost the night before. Our thoughts? &amp;quot;Considering I&amp;#039;d only had a couple of drinks I&amp;#039;m not entirely sure where my hangover came from, but BOY was it letting me know of its whereabouts. I&amp;#039;m not a massive coconut water fan in general really and find the taste a bit grim, but at this point I was willing to try anything.&amp;quot; Did it work?\u00A0&amp;quot;After a quick chill in the fridge, I necked a coconut water desk side and felt much better in my stomach. I was hydrated and felt more awake - it&amp;#039;s just a shame my headache was still very much a thing that was hammering against my brain.&amp;quot; Rating:\u00A03 stars.    5. Cured meat Cured meat company\u00A0Serious Pig\u00A0claim their new product Hangover Cured will help fight your hangover by being eaten WHILST you&amp;#039;re drinking. As for Claire Hodgson&amp;#039;s verdict.. &amp;quot;It doesn&amp;#039;t exactly look like the most appealing thing ever, and\u00A0it turned out the secret was to eat it when I was still drunk. &amp;quot;Rolling in at about 1am after a dangerous mix of J\u00E4germeister, white wine and red wine (and what?), I decided the best plan of action was to eat half then, half tomorrow. But as soon as I&amp;#039;d slightly tentatively popped the first porky slither in my mouth, I couldn&amp;#039;t stop and eventually\u00A0consumed the lot within 5 minutes.\u00A0 Did it work? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not sure if it was the snack itself, or the fact it was so salty I consumed roughly 2 pints of water while I was eating it, but it definitely softened my hangover. It didn&amp;#039;t stop The fear, but it did seem to help dull the physical hangover. &amp;quot; Rating:\u00A03 stars.   Do you have any weird hangover cures that actually work? Let us in on our secrets over on our twitter\u00A0@CosmopolitanUK. Follow Dusty on\u00A0Twitter.    "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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