Can the patients with uremia drink tea

Can the patients with uremia drink tea? With the improvement of people's life quality, tea has become a way of leisure and everyone's favorite. There are thousands and thousands of species of tea. Each of its efficacy is different. People always focus on tea’s efficacy of health protection, help digestion, subsidence of swelling, diuresis and refresh. But, if the uremic patients can drink tea? Let’s see what are the experts answer!
Uremic patients should drink tea less. Although green tea, Oolong are good at refresh, relieve fatigue, help digestion, quench thirst, subsidence of swelling and diuresis for people, even contain rich vitamin c、e、Carotene、nicotinic acid、potassium、calcium、Selenium、Fluorine，etc — many essential element of the human body. Even it is good for kidney. But there are not only advantages but also disadvantages. Tea contains caffeine, the content of caffeine in a cup of tea is equal to one cup of coffee’s 30% - 50%. There are more caffeine in strong tea. As we know, caffeine could distort human body’s normal cell, may cause cancer. And drink more strong tea, will make the nervous system of human body excessive excitement, make more burden to heart and liver, promote gastrin’s secretion. Cause peptic ulcer. And tannin acid easy to combine with iron, reduce the absorption of hematopoietic factor iron. It’s very bad for the recovery of uremia.

So, if patients got uremia, should drink tea less. And drink chilled drinks,carbonated drinks ,etc less in summer. Drink plain boiled water is the best way to supplement water for patients.