Drinking too much ice tea will be harmful your health.
Urologists of Loyola Chicago University –
USA warn that dinking too much ice tea can cause kidney stones because of high
content of oxalate (salt and ester of oxalic acid).
Drinking
too much ice tea will be harmful your health.
Kidney stones are small crystals of salt
and minerals which accumulate in kidneys and narrow down the ureter from
kidneys to bladder. Normally, if the stones have small size, they do not cause
serious damages to us, but when they develop and have bigger size, they are
stuck in kidneys; kidney stones can lead to uncomfortable feeling, hurt, and
even have to deal with by operation.
Iced
Tea Can Develop Kidney Stones
According to experts, rate of kidney stones
and developing ability is 4 times in men as high and quick as in women. Women
who have high risk of kidney stones are over 40 years old, low estrogen,
postmenopausal, as well as those who have to cut out ovary. Therefore, the
expert advice that we should drink a little ice tea, taking fresh water is the
best. Moreover, we should drink lemonade because it contains high level of
citrate which can prevent from generating, accumulating salt and minerals
causing kidney stones.
People
who suffer from kidney stones should limit to eat spinach.
To avoid the risk of kidney stones, you
should limit to use some foods that contain high level of oxalate such as:
spinach, chocolate, nuts, meat, and salt is also should not use too much. In
that case, you should take high calcium food and drink a lot of water in order
to restrain generation of oxalate; besides, water is useful to eliminate small
stones out by itself.
