Can You Drink Green Tea with Kidney Disease

Green tea is very popular with people from the world with many benefits to health. Then for patients with kidney disease, is green tea beneficial to them? Here we will give you specific answer, hoping helpful for you.

Have a knowledge of green tea in the first place.

Green tea consists mostly of tea polyphenols, caffeine, lipopolysaccharide, theanine. Green tea has many good effects on health, which are as following:

Anti aging

Prevention of cancer

Anti bacterial

Anti-inflammation

Skin care

Diuretics

Alleviate fatigue

So, can patients with kidney disease drink green tea?

The answer is “yes, they can drink green tea, but they should limit it within proper amount”. The reason is as following:

As much caffeine is contained in green tea, caffeine can contribute to elevation of blood pressure. And high blood pressure does harm to blood vessels in kidney, causing kidney damage and decline of kidney function.

Proper amount of green tea is good for patients with kidney disease.

Green tea can help kidney excrete toxins and wastes from body, alleviating burdens on kidney. In addition, kidney can be protected from inflammation by drinking green tea.

What is more, green tea has the property of preventing kidney stones, because kidney stones are made of calcium oxalate crystals, and green tea can help decompose calcium oxalate.

From the above, we can know that green tea not only has benefits to kidney, but also can do harm to kidney. Thus, patients with kidney disease should drink green tea within proper amount in daily life, if you drink too much, damage can be caused for patients with kidney disease. However, the amount of green tea which patients with kidney disease should drink depends on their disease conditions, thus, you can tell us your specific condition, and we will give you a definite value of green tea you should drink in daily life.