Can women drink tea during special periods?

Zhu Yongxing, Chinese Tea Society

As we all know, drinking tea is good for health

Women will lose more blood during menstruation, thus losing a large amount of iron.

Therefore, in order to prevent iron-deficiency anemia, we recommend drinking tea at mealtimes, that is, do not drink tea within half an hour before and after meals.

It is worth mentioning that although menstrual women should be careful about drinking tea, female friends with premenstrual syndrome can drink white leaf tea with high theanine content before menstruation

In addition, Chinese medicine believes that women should not eat cold and cold foods during menstruation.

For pregnant women, because the growth and development of the fetus in the mother's body requires a large amount of nutrients, including iron nutrition for the production of heme, so pregnant women need more iron nutrition than the average adult

Therefore, in order to prevent iron-deficiency anemia, we recommend drinking tea at mealtimes.

Another reason to drink tea with caution during pregnancy is the problem of caffeine in tea

The fetus that grows and develops in the mother's body is very sensitive to chemicals entering the mother's body, especially caffeine, which can directly act on the nervous system

Considering that tea has many other nutritional or health-care functional components at the same time, it has a very good effect on human health

Drinking tea during lactation needs to be concerned about the health of both the nursing infant and the nursing mother, and the condition of breast milk should be considered

Drinking tea for nursing mothers will make their milk contain tea polyphenols and caffeine.

　　From the analysis of the concept of "four qi" in traditional Chinese medicine, tea is generally mildly cold, and tends to be flat and cool.

　　If breastfeeding is not the case, of course the above problems do not exist

　　"China Food News" (07 edition on March 10, 2022)

　　(Editor-in-charge: Yuan Guofeng)