Can patients with gallstones drink tea?

Patients with gallstones should pay attention to reasonable dietary adjustments. It is usually not recommended for patients with gallstones to drink tea, coffee or some alcoholic beverages, because they can easily stimulate and cause an increase in cholecystokinin, which is not conducive to the treatment of the disease.

1. Treatment of gallstones

1. Stay away from high-fat foods, such as fatty meat, pig's trotters, fried eggs, etc.;

2. When exercising or working, pay attention to the appropriate amount of exercise. Excessive fatigue will aggravate the condition. Also be careful to prevent cold and excessive sweating;

3. Pay attention to maintaining a stable mood and avoid getting excited. Happiness, anger, sadness, and joy often affect the inhibition or excitement of visceral nerves, which can affect the contraction or emptying of the gallbladder;

4. Pay attention to developing bowel habits. Constipation can affect gastrointestinal dysfunction, affect gallbladder contraction, and cause bile stagnation;

5. Don’t seek medical treatment or take medicine randomly when you are sick. If stones are blocking the gallbladder, taking medicine to increase bile secretion will be detrimental to the disease. It is only effective if taken during the intermittent period.

2. Taboos:

1. Avoid high-fat foods to avoid increased cholesterol levels;

2. Avoid eating rough fiber foods to prevent aggravated intestinal peristalsis and gallbladder pain;

3. Avoid smoking, drinking, tea, coffee, chili and other irritating foods to prevent the increase of cholecystokinin, which may lead to spasm of the bile duct sphincter;

4. Avoid eating too much sugar;

5. Avoid foods high in calcium, such as dairy products, chocolate, nuts, etc.;

6. Avoid eating gas-producing foods;

7. Avoid eating overly hot or overly cold food;

8. Avoid excessive consumption of acidic foods, such as vinegar, bayberry, hawthorn, lemon, etc.;

9. Avoid excessive consumption of spices and flavors;

10. Avoid limiting the intake of foods high in cholesterol, such as pig brain, cow brain, pig kidney, pig kidney and other animal offal, as well as clam meat, preserved eggs, squid, crucian carp, etc.