2013年7月17日星期三

End Stage Kidney Disease: Can I Drink Tea

Tea is not only a very popular drink in daily life but has great health benefits. Tea can be refreshing, relieve fatigue, helping digestion, relieving thirst, diuresis and detumescence; especially, green tea and oolong tea are better than black tea. Tea containing rich vitamin c, vitamin e, beta-carotene, Nick acid, potassium, calcium, selenium, fluorine, etc. can adjust acid-base balance; those are the benefits of tea on the human body including the kidney. Learn About : Can Coriander Be Consumed by Kidney Disease Patient
However, ESRD patients can not often drink tea because the tea contains caffeine. About a cup of tea contains 30%-50% caffeine of a cup of coffee; a large number of strong tea contains more caffeine. Caffeine can cause human body’s normal cell distortion and may result in cancer. Drinking a large amout of strong tea can make nervous system excessive excitement, increase the heart and kidney burden, promote gastrin secretion, induce peptic ulcer, and tannin acid easily combines with iron, hematopoietic factors reduce the absorption of iron, which is very unfavorable for the rehabilitation of ESRD. Therefore, uremia patients should eat less tea.

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