Tea is a very leisurely and interesting thing, but many people drink tea without taboos and like to drink strong tea. People who are addicted to drinking tea should make one or two pots of strong tea every day to refresh their mind. Even when taking medicine, they can't change their habit of drinking tea. Can I have tea with medicine? Come and have a look.

Can I have tea with medicine

It's better not to drink tea when taking medicine. Because tea contains a substance called tannin, which is an acid that reacts with many ingredients in drugs. After the reaction, many substances in the drug can not be dissolved in the human body, and it is not easy to be absorbed, so it is easy to affect the efficacy, which is not conducive to the recovery of health.

Precautions for taking medicine

1. Pay attention to medication time

In the drug manual or when purchasing drugs, there are relevant instructions to explain when the drugs should be taken. Generally, they can be divided into pre meal, mid meal, post meal, and bedtime. The specific situation depends on the drug of the patient. For example, non irritant drugs can be taken before the meal, such as metoclopramide, domperidone, etc.

2. Can't drink coke and coffee

Coffee contains caffeine, coke contains cocaine (also known as cocaine), both of which can stimulate the central nervous system and gastric acid secretion. Therefore, it is not suitable to take it with sedatives, antihistamines and drugs that stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, otherwise, it will aggravate the side effects of the above drugs on the gastrointestinal tract and induce gastric hemorrhage.

3. No shrimp

Do not eat shrimp for 2 hours before and after taking vitamin C. Because the rich copper in shrimp will oxidize vitamin C and make it invalid; at the same time, the pentavalent arsenic in shrimp will react with vitamin C to form toxic "trivalent arsenic".

4. Do not rest immediately

Do not lie on your back immediately after taking medicine many people have the habit of taking medicine before going to bed or lying in bed. They think that taking medicine immediately after taking it can help drug absorption.

The above is the introduction of taking medicine to drink tea. In addition, it also introduces the precautions of taking medicine. We can learn from the above that you can't drink tea, coke, coffee or shrimp while taking medicine. I hope it can help you.