Forget tea and honey — this doc has a surprising treatment for sore throat
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Here’s how to dill with a sore throat.
Instead of going straight for tea with honey, you might want to open up a jar of pickles.
Dr. Linda Yancey, infectious disease specialist at Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston, Texas, shared why eating pickles or drinking pickle juice can help relieve a sore throat.
It might seem a bit jarring to look to pickles for a sore throat remedy, but it all comes down to the properties of pickle brine.
“Any time you have a solution that is more concentrated than the fluid in our tissues, such as salt or sugar, it reduces the inflammation by drawing the water out,” Yancey shared with Well + Good.
A simple salt-water pickle brine consists of approximately 3.5% salt, while salt makes up around 0.4% of the body’s weight — so the ratio certainly tracks.
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