Side Effects of Tea

Side Effects of Drinking Too Much Tea

Tea is almost like an addictive drink for most of the people.

             The side effects of drinking too much black tea include difficulty sleeping, headaches, nervousness, diarrhea, irritability, irregular heart rate, confusion, heartburn, tremors in your extremities and possibly convulsions

• Tea is harmful to us as it causes chromosome damage and also fetal leukemia. This was reported by the edition of The Washington times online.

• Tea contains an element called ptyalin, this is a kind if digestive ferment of saliva. Tanin is responsible for this condition, tea delays our stomach digestion that could lead us to gas formation diarrhoea and constipation as well.

• Drinking to much of tea leads to incontinence which makes urgent impulse for frequent urine.

• Due to caffeine the respiratory and cardiac muscle also get stimulated leading to coronary arteries which gets diluted as a result increases into the rate of blood flow. The fastening of respiration lowers the carbon dioxide level.

• Tea also leads to insomnia.

1. Excessive amounts may cause insomnia, anxiety and restlessness, and increased bleeding if used with blood thinners. Again, excessive and continuous drinking of tea may have these effects, but the intake of a few cups of tea or glasses of iced tea a day are innocuous                                                                                                       
2. Tea may interfere with the absorption of iron from food. Tea may also interfere with certain labs tests, thallium tests, uric acid tests, and vanillylmandelic acid concentrations. Tea may also worsen glaucoma due to increase eye pressure.

            Do not drink tea on an empty stomach.

1.                 Drinking tea, especially very hot or cold tea, on an empty stomach can cause sudden change of temperature in your stomach and spleen, and cause some unwanted side effects.                                                                                                                                                              
2.             Do not drink tea right before your meal time. Drinking tea right before having meals usually leads to dilution of saliva, loss of appetite and problems with meal digestion. It is recommended not to drink tea 30 minutes before the mealtime.                                                            
3.             Do not drink tea all night because it had a lot of substances are oxidized and stale so the impact is not good for the body.