I can tolerate being drunk, but I can’t tolerate being drunk on tea!

We all know that drinking tea can refresh the mind and clear the brain, but drinking too much tea can easily lead to insomnia.
But do you dare to believe that drinking too much tea may not only make you unable to sleep, but also make you drunk. In addition to being drunk from alcohol and tea, you may even be "drunk" even when eating or drinking water.

The reason why tea can make people drunk is that the key factor is the substances such as theophylline and caffeine contained in it. They are like stimulants that can "inject chicken blood" into the nerve center, make the brain nerves more excited, and promote hyperfunction of the heart.

If the human body takes in too much of the above substances in a short period of time, it will promote the release of endogenous hormones such as adrenaline and norepinephrine, and the tension of smooth muscles will decrease. The respiratory tract without muscle support is like an inflated balloon, which will cause the respiratory tract to expand. Therefore, theophylline drugs are often used in the clinical treatment of diseases such as respiratory disorders, but they must be taken under the guidance of a doctor and should not be used excessively.

Chemical formula of theophylline (dioxydimethylpurine)

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After drinking several cups of strong tea, you may suddenly feel shortness of breath, accelerated blood circulation, dizziness, and even staggering like a drunk guy. If the above phenomena occur, you are likely to be tea drunk. Excessive theophylline will cause abnormal enzyme activity in your body. In the next few days, your metabolism and biological clock may be disrupted, and you may experience gastrointestinal discomfort.

In addition, tea leaves also contain a lot of fluorine. If fluorine accumulates too much in the human body, it may not only cause chronic poisoning, but also cause tooth discoloration and joint pain and weakness, and in severe cases may cause limb paralysis. How to avoid and relieve tea drunkenness According to scientists' recommendation that adults should not consume more than 0.65g of theophylline and caffeine per day, we can only drink 3-5 cups of tea or coffee a day at most.

At the same time, in addition to avoiding excessive tea drinking, you can also eat an appropriate amount of nuts, red dates or small desserts while drinking tea to replenish sodium ions and sugar for the body in time, regulate the electrolyte balance in the body, and relieve tea drunkenness. In this way, it seems that there is another legitimate reason to eat desserts.

In addition to controlling the amount of tea you drink, you should also try to choose relatively light tea. Strong alcohol is harmful to your health, and so is strong tea. Try not to drink tea, otherwise it would be unfair to get gastroenteritis again. Friends who suffer from neurasthenia, hyperthyroidism, heart and gastrointestinal diseases should not drink too much tea. Drinking one cup of tea a day can reduce the recurrence of old diseases and benefit everyone.

It turns out that they can all make people "drunk". Not only tea can make people drunk, but coffee, oil, water and rice can also make people drunk.

The principle of coffee intoxication is similar to that of tea intoxication. The culprit is the nervous system stimulant caffeine contained in it, which can also cause people to experience "alcohol-like drunkenness" phenomena such as shortness of breath and dizziness.

Oil refers to the phenomenon that when people are overly exposed to oil fume, the oil decomposes and volatilizes at high temperatures to produce harmful substances such as acrolein, which can cause dizziness, tinnitus, etc. This oil phenomenon is actually a mild poisoning. Acrolein can change the structure of the trachea and bronchus, and the inhaler will unconsciously feel chest oppression, headache, dizziness, nausea and vomiting.

Water is more often caused by a temporary imbalance of electrolyte balance in the body. Drinking a lot of water causes excessive loss of salt in the body, some water is absorbed by tissue cells, and the metabolism of electrolytes such as sodium and potassium ions is disordered. At this time, the kidneys are not strong enough and the processing speed is relatively slow, which will cause the body to suffer from dehydration and hyponatremia poisoning, usually manifested as sore hands and feet. Water intoxication is more likely to occur in people who work outdoors for a long time in summer.

Food drunkenness is caused by eating too much and too fast, which causes the blood vessels in the digestive tract to expand excessively. A large amount of blood is forced to rush to the intestines, resulting in transient ischemia of the brain, causing dizziness, drowsiness, numbness of hands and feet, etc. If you want to avoid food drunkenness, you must develop the good habit of chewing slowly.

Now everyone should know that not only alcohol can make people drunk, but also tea, coffee, water, rice, oil and other things can make people drunk, and even the degree of danger is no less than that of drunkenness. Therefore, a good diet and living habits are the kingly way to stay healthy!

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Audit expert: Wang Guoyi, PhD in Food Safety

Tadpole Musical Notation original article/reprinted with source editor/Fei Ge