醃黃瓜汁真的能用來解宿醉嗎?

When you wake up with a pounding head and cotton-dry mouth the night after one (or a few) too many drinks, you'll likely find yourself Googling ways to get rid of your hangover, fast. And when you do, you may stumble upon a suggestion to throw back some pickle juice.

前一天晚上喝了很多酒之後的你第二天醒來的時候是不是頭痛欲裂、口乾舌燥？你是不是很想谷歌搜索如何快速擺脫宿醉？如果你的確這麼做了，你會發現有人給出的建議是：喝點醃黃瓜汁。

Some claim that pickle brine is the reason Polish people don't get hangovers. Even Dr. Oz has endorsed pickle juice as a hangover cure. According to him, the sAlts in pickle juice replenish electrolytes that you lose while drinking, which can make your headache disappear. But is getting over a hangover really as easy as taking a swig from the pickle jar in your fridge?

有些人聲稱：醃黃瓜汁是波蘭人不會宿醉的原因。就連奧茲醫生也認爲醃黃瓜汁是解宿醉的好方法。奧茲醫生表示，醃黃瓜汁中的鹽分可以補充你喝酒時丟失掉的電解質，所以你不會頭痛。但解宿醉真的只需從冰箱中拿出醃黃瓜罐這麼簡單嗎？

Well, probably not. "The main thing to understand with hangovers is that they usually happen because people are dehydrated, and then also you probably didn't get much sleep," Tochi Iroku-Malize, MD, a practicing family physician in Long Island, New York, tells Health. So yes, salty pickle brine might help with the electrolytes you've lost if you peed a lot, or maybe even threw up, the night before. But taking a shot of pickle juice in the morning won't make your hangover disappear if you're not also drinking lots of water and nursing your hangover with a nap.

也許並不是。"關於宿醉，你需要了解的是：喝酒會使人們脫水，再加上睡不好，所以纔會發生宿醉的情況，"紐約長島的一名執業家庭醫生Tochi Iroku-Malize醫學博士對《健康》雜誌說道。所以，如果喝酒那一晚你總是上廁所或嘔吐，那麼鹽漬黃瓜汁的確能補充你丟失掉的電解質。但如果第二天早晨你沒有喝很多水、沒有小憩一會兒，那麼只喝一杯醃黃瓜汁並不能解宿醉。

Alcohol acts as a diuretic, which means that it'll make you pee more than usual. That's why you may find you have to go so often during a boozy night out and one of the reasons you feel so dehydrated the morning after. Yes, you lose electrolytes in pee-but it's the water that really matters. "When you're losing water, you need to continue to replace that," Dr. Iroku-Malize says. She suggests that people drink a whole glass of water with every alcoholic drink to make the hangover sting less.

酒精起到利尿劑的作用，也就是說你去廁所的次數會比平時更多。因此如若晚上出去喝酒，你會發現自己需經常上廁所，而這也是喝完酒第二天脫水的原因。是的，上廁所的過程中你會失去電解質--但水纔是重點。"身體失去了水分，你就需要不斷喝水補充，"Iroku-Malize醫生說道。她建議：每喝一杯酒飲就喝一杯水，以緩解宿醉頭痛的情況。

The only way to really prevent a hangover is to not drink too much, Dr. Iroku-Malize says. Her definition of "not too much" is one drink a day for women and two for men.

預防宿醉的唯一方式就是少喝酒，Iroku-Malize醫生說道。她對於"少喝酒"的定義爲：女性每天喝一杯，男性每天喝兩杯。