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FloridaLady
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edited June 2014 in Complementary and Holistic Medicine and Treatment
Green Tea & antibiotics
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  • FloridaLady
    FloridaLady Member Posts: 2,155
    edited April 2008

    Green Tea Boosts Antibiotics for Superbugs

    Egyptian study finds drink increased effectiveness threefold

    -- Robert Preidt
    Egyptian study finds drink increased effectiveness threefold.
     

    MONDAY, March 31 (HealthDay News) -- Green tea can help antibiotics be three times more effective in fighting drug-resistant bacteria, even superbugs, according to a study by researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt.

    Green tea is common in Egypt, and it's likely that many people there drink it while taking antibiotics.Therefore, the researchers wanted to determine if green tea would decrease or increase the effectiveness of antibiotics or have no effect.

    "We tested green tea in combination with antibiotics against 28 disease-causing microorganisms belonging to two different classes," Dr Mervat Kaseem, of the university's pharmacy faculty, said in a prepared statement. "In every single case, green tea enhanced the bacteria-killing activity of the antibiotics. For example, the killing effect of chloramphenicol was 99.99 percent better when taken with green tea than when taken on its own in some circumstances."

    FYI

    Flalady

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  • danix5
    danix5 Member Posts: 755
    edited April 2008

    Very interesting study.

    Glad to hear it since I drink near a gallon of green tea myself.

    I was told to stop drinking it before surgery.

    Have you heard that?

    Dani

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  • twirlgirl
    twirlgirl Member Posts: 212
    edited April 2008

    I drink 2 quarts of green tea a day myself, started it when i started rads and i'm going to stick with it! it's super good for you.

    dani, i think they tell you to stop everything before surgery...and have very little knowledge of natural medicine. they told me to stop my fish oil before and i take it for immflammation and depression, plus allergies. it doesn't have enough blood thinning properties to hurt surgery. Next time, I am ignoring them!

    the green tea and breast cancer studies from Japan are what got me started on it. 

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  • cp418
    cp418 Member Posts: 7,079
    edited April 2008

    I became a green tea addict during chemo when I could not tolerate the taste of bottled water.  Now I no longer drink coffee at all and only green tea - - - favorite flavor is Lipton mandarine orange.  Some OJ in the moring and then green tea the rest of the day for me.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2008

    FloridaLady, I received almost the same thing in my email.  I'm going to add what else it had to say.

    Kaseem and colleagues also found that green team made 20 percent of drug-resistant bacteria susceptible to cephalosporin antibiotics, an important type of antibiotics to which new drug-resistant strains of bacteria have evolved resistance.

    In almost every case and for all types of antibiotics they tested, the researchers found that drinking green tea at the same time as taking the antibiotics appeared to increase the action of the antibiotics and reduce drug resistance in bacteria. In certain cases, even low concentrations of green tea were effective.

    The study was to be presented Monday at a meeting of the Society for General Microbiology in Edinburgh, Scotland.

    "Our results show that we should consider more seriously the natural products we consume in our everyday life," Kaseem said. "In the future, we will be looking at other natural herb products such as majoram and thyme to see whether they also contain active compounds which can help in the battle against drug resistant bacteria."

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  • HeyJude
    HeyJude Member Posts: 56
    edited April 2008

    Same here. I used to be a "three cuppa" coffee girl and switched to tea just before dx. But once I started chemo Green Tea and tart lemon soda were all I could get down. Still drink the green tea but back to juices and wine now! Just in moderation... HeyJude

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2008

    I was watching Dr. Phil yesterday about MRSA.  That is one scary bug!

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