Medicine
Iron and Tea
- Tannins, a substance found in tea, are iron inhibitors, has been published in a medical paper in 1968. Since then, it has become a common sense that drinking tea should be avoided while taking medication, especially while taking iron tablets for the treatment of iron deficiency anemia. However, nowadays some new ideas are a negation of the traditional ones because
‡@ Now, iron tablets are made available to be dissolved very slowly so their absorptions are almost not affected by tea.
‡A If there exists a lack of iron in the body, iron will be more easily absorbed than normal conditions.
Accordingly, now we consider that taking iron with tea may be not a big affect on iron absorption. Therefore, it is not necessary to be very nervous and worrying about tea because anemia treatment is more important.
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