Whoever has these eight drinking habits won't get a stomachache.

China has a long history of drinking tea, which is an important means to keep fit. Although it is said that drinking tea is good for health, many people have bad habits when drinking tea, and as a result, drinking tea becomes harmful to their stomachs.

Today, let's take a look at six bad drinking habits that can seriously damage your stomach. Come and see if you've been caught!

Drinking tea on an empty stomach

Drinking tea on an empty stomach, without any food in the stomach to act as a buffer, the caffeine and tannins contained in the tea directly acting on the stomach, stimulating gastric mucous gland secretion of gastric acid, increased acidity will stimulate the gastric mucosa, exacerbating hunger, causing gastrointestinal discomfort, leading to contraction or cause stomach pain.

Drinking tea on an empty stomach can not only irritate the digestive tract, but also dilute digestive fluids and lead to symptoms such as dizziness, fatigue, poor circulation, absent-mindedness and nausea.

Drinking tea after drinking alcohol

Many people believe that drinking tea after drinking can sober up, but in fact, it is not so, and using tea to sober up can easily damage one's body. The caffeine in the tea interacts with alcohol and stimulates the gastric mucosa, leading to gastritis, or more seriously, stomach ulcers, which does not achieve a sobering effect.

Even as early as the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen's "Ben Cao Gang Mu" explicitly recorded the harm of drinking tea after alcohol: "Drinking tea after alcohol damages the kidneys, waist and legs feel heavy, the bladder feels cold pain, in addition to suffering from a disease such as water swelling, thirst, diarrhea and pain." Drinking tea after drinking, especially strong tea, will indeed cause damage to the kidneys.

Likes drinking strong tea

Many old tea lovers like to drink strong tea, but they don't know that strong tea contains too much caffeine and theine, which will stimulate the stomach lining and cause too much stomach acid. Long-term consumption of this kind of tea will gradually damage the gastric mucosa, leading to symptoms such as congestion, inflammation and ulcers.

Severe cases can slow down the contraction of the stomach and peristalsis of the intestines, thereby affecting food digestion and absorption, easily causing constipation, dry and hard stools, affecting intestinal health.

Also, excessive caffeine in strong tea can cause an over-excited nervous system, leading to insomnia.

Drinking too much tea

Some people are so fond of tea that they drink it day and night, treating it like water. But as the saying goes, "overdoing anything can lead to its opposite." Consuming too much tea will cause caffeine, fluorine and theophylline to accumulate in your body, which may induce a phenomenon known as “tea intoxication”.

Drinking too much tea can irritate the gastric mucosa, increase the loss of calcium and iron, and increase kidney burden. Especially when drinking excessive amounts of green tea, fresh Pu'er, has a very large stimulating effect on the gastrointestinal tract, even though black tea, ripe Pu'er is fully fermented tea, warm nature, if you drink too much will also have an impact on the stomach.

Mixed tea drinking

Drinking too many different kinds of tea is just like eating too much at one time, it's bad for your stomach. Drinking a combination of several teas is just as likely to cause stomach discomfort and "tea drunkenness" as drinking multiple wines together.

It's recommended that you drink one kind of tea and then rest for a bit before drinking another. It is not suggested to drink more than three types of tea at once.

Drinking hot/cold tea all the time

Drinking tea with a suitable temperature, just like drinking water, is most comfortable to the stomach. Especially for teas that are naturally cool in nature, drinking cold tea will further enhance its cooling property. Regardless of spring summer autumn or winter, eating too many cold food will damage the spleen and stomach, causing serious phenomena such as abdominal pain diarrhea etc.

Drinking cold tea is not good, and drinking hot tea is absolutely unbearable. Tea with a temperature higher than 65°C can damage the mucous membranes on our tongues, throats, and stomachs. So wait until it's no longer scalding before you drink it.

That's how you get seriously hurt by drinking too much tea. Friends who love tea, let's break the habit of excessive tea drinking and have a healthy cup instead!