What kind of tea is suitable for hyperthyroidism

For patients with hyperthyroidism, they need to cultivate their daily hobbies so that they can stabilize their emotions. If you can't control your temper, it will cause great trouble to the people around you. Tea ceremony is a very good health-preserving activity. It can not only cultivate one's sentiments, but also develop one's endurance so that one is no longer controlled by a bad temper. It also has certain benefits for hyperthyroidism. So, what kind of tea is suitable for hyperthyroidism?

1. Why can't patients with hyperthyroidism drink tea?

In life, drinking tea has certain benefits for ordinary people. For example, it can quench thirst, stimulate the mind, aid digestion, and even induce sweating to cure colds, lose weight and so on. But it is harmful rather than beneficial to patients with hyperthyroidism.

Due to their condition, patients with hyperthyroidism are physically hyperactive, prone to insomnia and nightmares, poor spirits, and enhanced metabolism. Tea has the effect of stimulating the nerves. After taking tea, patients with hyperthyroidism will experience an aggravated state of hyperactivity, which will lead to worsening of the condition and affect the treatment of hyperthyroidism. It is especially unfavorable for patients with hyperthyroidism and cardiac reactions.

Tea contains caffeine, which can promote gastric acid secretion and increase gastric acid concentration. If hyperthyroidism patients suffer from ulcers, drinking tea will aggravate the ulcer.

The theacrine and tannic acid in tea can also affect the body's absorption of iron and protein. For patients with hyperthyroidism and iron deficiency anemia, drinking tea will affect the absorption of iron-containing drugs and affect the treatment of anemia.

In addition, tea can be an antidote. If the patient is taking Chinese or Western medicine, drinking tea may affect the efficacy of the medicine, so it is not advisable to drink it.

It is also important to note that even if the hyperthyroidism condition is stable, you should drink less strong tea, because hyperthyroidism is prone to recurrence, especially for patients treated with Western medicine, who are particularly prone to fluctuations in their condition. When the condition has not fully recovered or is still in the drug maintenance treatment stage, you should drink less strong tea. It is okay to drink light tea occasionally.

2. What else should I pay attention to besides not drinking tea when I have hyperthyroidism?

After discovering hyperthyroidism, you should go to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible. In addition, because hyperthyroidism patients have abnormal body metabolism, they should also pay attention to their diet. In hyperthyroidism, excessive secretion of thyroid hormones promotes the metabolism of the three major nutrients, sugar, fat, and protein, and accelerates oxidation. The body's heat production and heat dissipation increase significantly, and the basal metabolic rate increases abnormally, so energy must be increased every day to correct the body's energy consumption.

Based on the above reasons, the diet of patients with hyperthyroidism must pay attention to high calories, high protein, high vitamins and supplementation of calcium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, magnesium, etc., in order to correct the consumption caused by hypermetabolism and improve systemic symptoms.