Drugs in Drinking Tea Can ..?

Drugs in Drinking Tea Can ..?Pain is the most disliked by everyone , whether parents, adults , and children alike . One way to cope with the symptoms of the disease are resting and taking medication as directed to use the recommended doctor or pharmacist .Prescription drugs generally do not taste good when drunk , even bitter taste tend . Therefore , we often consume the drug with food or beverages that taste sweet to mask the bitter taste . Moreover, when the patients are children who usually take the drug in powder form . Parents should be good to anticipate that children would consume drugs such bad taste , usually by mixing the drug with food or their child's favorite drink .One alternative to take medicine to reduce the unpleasant taste of drugs is drinking the sweet tea ( Hidayat , 2010) .TehTeh leaves a drink with a distinctive taste as well as beneficial to health . Tea is usually used by people to maintain a healthy and taking medication . The hope , in addition to getting healthy effects of the drug , also obtained from the healthy effects of tea .People generally do not know that tea contains tannin . Tannins in tea can bind to a variety of active drug compounds so difficult absorbed or absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract . It inil resulted in reduced efficacy of the drug , because drugs that can be absorbed by the body are limited in number ( Anonymous , 2010) . So often the drug already drunk , but symptoms are not immediately disappear , because no drug effect was maximal .In addition to interfere with absorption of drugs , tannins may interfere with drug distribution network (site of action ) . Tannins have a phenol group which can bind to the protein , so that the amount of free protein in the body is reduced . This will lead to drugs that are in the circulatory system can not bind to the protein . As a result , the number ofdrug in the free form will increase . This increase can be due to toxic effects of drugs can go directly to the cell membrane and cause exaggerated effects in the body .Tea also contains caffeine ( although concentration is much less when compared with coffee ) but tea also has a stimulant effect on the central nervous system . So avoid consuming substances containing caffeine ( tea ) , if the treatment with drugs that also can stimulate the central nervous system such as asthma medications containing theophylline or epinephrine ( Anonymous , 2010) .Tea is giving health effects in the body as functioning as an antioxidant , to capture free radicals that may retard aging ( Ariel , 2009) . But it turns out after doing research , there are the effects of food and beverages taken together with drugs , drug interactions and foods that can reduce drug efficacy and can be life-threatening ( if excessive reactions in the central nervous system by caffeine ) ( Anonymous , 2010 ) .Thus indeed saying that , it is better to prevent than cure , but if it is already sick , do not weird to take medicine with drinks of various flavors in order to reduce the unpleasant taste of the drug , because of the effects on the contrary , that is not cured . To be safe take medicine with water , because water is neutral and has no effect when it reacts with a drug , just dissolve it.