Tea and antibiotics can be taken together

It is generally believed that drugs cannot be taken together with tea, because tannins contained in tea may react with drugs, so as to reduce the efficacy of drugs A recent study, however, rejected that view If tea is taken with antibiotics, it will not reduce the efficacy, but improve the antibacterial effect of antibiotics Professor murakayama Qiong and his colleagues, director of the bacterial Department of Tokyo University, studied the antibacterial effect of green tea and antibiotics They added a drop of green tea extract to the methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus culture medium, and then added the following different antibiotics respectively Finally, compared with the culture medium without green tea extract, their minimum inhibitory concentration was compared The added antibiotics include ampicillin in penicillins, cefazolin, cefotiam and ceftizoxime in cephalosporins, cefmetazole in cephalosporins, raoxicephem in oxycephem, imipenem in carbapenems, kalumonam in monoamides, etc The results showed that all β - lactam antibiotics (penicillins plus cephalosporins) plus green tea extract had the same antibacterial effect on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus except for a culture medium of kalumonam Compared with that without green tea extract, the minimum inhibitory concentration decreased by 99% - 99.9% The researchers pointed out that in the past, people were not in favor of drinking tea water to take medicine, but the above results suggested that antibiotics could be excluded Adding 5% green tea extract is equivalent to the amount of tea people drink in their daily life In addition to green tea extracts, other studies have also pointed out Catechins and nipagic acid in tea have antibacterial effect Drinking proper amount of green tea while taking antibiotics can significantly improve the antibacterial effect of antibiotics, reduce the dosage and shorten the course of treatment.