This archive report was first published on 24 September 2019.
Published on September 24, 2019, a German court in Frankfurt made a landmark ruling that hangovers are indeed an illness.
The ruling came in response to a case where plaintiffs claimed a company offering anti-hangover products was making false health claims.
According to the court, information about food products cannot imply that they can prevent, treat, or heal human illnesses.
The court defined an illness as any small or temporary disruption to the normal state or activity of the body, including symptoms like tiredness, nausea, and headaches.
Doctors have long referred to the morning after a night of drinking as 'veisalgia', a specialist medical term.
