Tea and Nausea

[thirtysixbelow]

I sometimes get nausea from my morning tea, usually green tea, and it seems some other people have the same issue. I also take a multivitamin everyday. I found out today that multivitamins cause nausea for a lot of people, some of which even mention tea being the thing that triggers it for them. Normally if I have some food it's not an issue. Regardless of what the real reason is I wanted to make a simple poll to get an idea. So, if you have had nausea from your morning cup of tea on multiple occasions (sure an occurrence was not a fluke) do you also take a multivitamin?

[Tead Off]

I have gotten nauseous both taking a multi and not taking a multi when i've drunk green tea, especially matcha. The multi does not make me nauseous at all. It's only on an empty stomach that I've experienced the tea doing this to me. This is an experience that is well known. For some reason, japanese green tea can be an irritant to the stomach. I don't know why. I've never experienced this with Chinese greens.

[Jayaratna]

Many things give me nausea, but luckily not tea. Just once I had one episode with matcha, on an empty stomach.

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[Chip]

Black Assam is a tea that does me in ... virtually never a green though.

I fall in and out of the habit of taking a multi, usually when I am riding bike a lot I will take multi's. But never on an empty stomach ...

So, bottom line answer to the poll is "No."

[clareandromeda]

Pills and or tea (caffeine products) on an empty stomach can make me ill. If I have a big bowl of cereal first everything is cool.
Also from my experience the smell of cloves and fresh ginger help with the nausea I get from my vertigo....

[aKnightWhoSaysNi]

Tea doesn't make me nauseous (thank goodness) but I have had other gastro-related problems related to my tea drinking. This might be TMI, but after drinking what was probably too many cups of sencha on an empty stomach, I have gotten constipated. I have a theory that it's the tannin content of the tea that affects people's bowels.

So if you find that your stomach is most sensitive in the morning; you may want to consider switching to an oolong for your morning cuppa, as a nice medium oxidized oolong will probably contain less tanic acid than any green tea. Of course, I think it's also good to take food before one takes tea (I learned the hard way that I should never take tea on an empty stomach).

[Jayaratna]

Also from my experience the smell of cloves and fresh ginger help with the nausea I get from my vertigo....

I eat pure licorice extract for nausea: it's very bitter but really helps, I always take some with me when I travel by car or by plane. It raises blood pressure too.

https://www.licoriceinternational.com/l ... g-6p57.htm

...This might be TMI, but after drinking what was probably too many cups of sencha on an empty stomach, I have gotten constipated.

That's funny, I always heard the same thing about tea, but if I have sencha in the morning I get the opposite effect. Maybe it's just drinking so much warm water that helps.

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[clareandromeda]

Oh I never tried licorice for that before and I looooooove licorice. I'll have to stock up. thanks for the excuse!

[Shihali]

Tea doesn't give me nausea directly, but too much green tea can mess up the pH balance in my stomach and give me or knock down a stomachache.

[Smells_Familiar]

I eat pure licorice extract for nausea: it's very bitter but really helps, I always take some with me when I travel by car or by plane. It raises blood pressure too.

https://www.licoriceinternational.com/l ... g-6p57.htm

I recommend against taking pure licorice or licorice extract. For those who want the protection of the stomach and intestinal linings that licorice can provide without the increase in blood pressure (and other sides like low blood potassium levels and water retention) that comes with it, look into DGL (deglycyrrhizinated licorice).

[Intuit]

+1 on the DGL.

Effect depends on glutamate to GABA ratio on the finished leaf. Malty, as in the Assam and Yunnan Blacks, will cause the proton pump in the stomach wall lining to become overactive. If you have GERD (acid reflux disease), it will cause nausea by irritating the vagus nerve in the esophageal tract. It can also cause mild activation of the intestinal tract, increasingintestinal motility (poopage).

GABA will slow down peristalsis and decrease intestinal materials movement, causing or worsening constipation if intake is high.

Only multivitamins seems to give me mild nausea in the early morning hours. If I take it with food, no problemo.

[geeber1]

Effect depends on glutamate to GABA ratio on the finished leaf. Malty, as in the Assam and Yunnan Blacks, will cause the proton pump in the stomach wall lining to become overactive. If you have GERD (acid reflux disease), it will cause nausea by irritating the vagus nerve in the esophageal tract.

I had to quit drinking my favorite Irish Breakfast blend because it was upsetting my stomach so much, now I know why! Thanks for the info, Intuit!

[thirtysixbelow]

Also from my experience the smell of cloves and fresh ginger help with the nausea I get from my vertigo....

I have heard a lot about ginger helping with nausea. I didn't realize that just smelling could help though. I will definitely have to try this. I love the smell of cloves too! ** runs to grocery store **

[clareandromeda]

enjoy your ginger and cloves.. I just bought licorice today.. just a little is ok esp since I have abnormally LOW blood pressure.

[Jayaratna]

I eat pure licorice extract for nausea: it's very bitter but really helps, I always take some with me when I travel by car or by plane. It raises blood pressure too.

https://www.licoriceinternational.com/l ... g-6p57.htm

I recommend against taking pure licorice or licorice extract. For those who want the protection of the stomach and intestinal linings that licorice can provide without the increase in blood pressure (and other sides like low blood potassium levels and water retention) that comes with it, look into DGL (deglycyrrhizinated licorice).

These are precisely the reasons for which I use to have licorice in summer: it helps against low blood pressure and nausea, and prevents dehydration too. In hotter climates many people drink beverages added with salt, which has almost the same effects. Anything can be good or bad, it depends on how wisely you use it.

This reminds me of the Greek word pharmakon, which can be a medicine, but also a poison.

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