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Can People In CKD 3 Drink Green Tea

2013-08-09 10:42

Can People In CKD 3 Drink Green TeaGreen tea is one of famous drinks in the world and has many brands such as Spring Spiral, Zhu Ye Qing, Long Jing Green Tea and so on. Green tea has many healthy benefits and has been popular among people for thousand of years. However, can patients with stage 3 Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) drink green tea? Well, follow us to find the answer.

1. Green tea has the function of diuresis.

In stage 3 CKD, patients usually have the symptom of edema and itchy skin. This is because their kidneys have been impaired and lose the function of excreting excessive water and waste products out of their body, causing retention of water and wastes in their body, and then edema or swelling and itchy skin presents in their body. In this case, in order to alleviate their illness conditions, they can drink green tea properly after getting their doctors permission. The theine in green tea can stimulate kidneys and promote the urine out of the body quickly as well as improve the kidneys’ filtration rate which can reduce the retention of wastes and toxins in the body. In this condition, edema or swelling can be alleviated to some degree.

2. Green tea can also relieve tiredness.

CKD patients have anemia and often feel tiredness due to deficiency of red blood cells in their body. In this light, patients with tiredness can drink green tea properly, That is because green tea contains very powerful antioxidant and vitamin C, which can not only eliminate free radical in the body, but also secrete a kind of hormone against tension. In addition, green tea still contains a small amount of caffeine which is able to stimulate central nervous, and revivify. Besides, the theine in green tea can also eliminate excessive lactic acid in the urine, which contributes to eliminating fatigue as soon as possible. Therefore, patients with anemia can drink some green tea so as to alleviate their tiredness partly.

Besides, green tea still has many healthy benefits, including anti-aging, disease suppression, resistance to cancer, skin beauty and radiation protection and so on.

Although the above two healthy benefits are beneficial to CKD patients, they should drink green tea properly or ask for their doctor to tell them how much green tea they can drink. If they drink too much, it can aggravate their illness conditions. Therefore, they should drink green tea depending on their illness conditions. If you are still unclear about conditions and how much you can drink, you can leave us a message to kidneycares@hotmail.com or just consult our on-line doctors.


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