People who need to say 'no' to orange juice
Orange juice is very good for health, can help strengthen the immune system. However, for some people, drinking orange juice does more harm than good.
Orange juice is a drink rich in vitamin C, which helps strengthen the immune system. Drinking orange juice every day helps you prevent many diseases such as colds and flu, helps reduce cholesterol and blood pressure, and is an antioxidant, thereby preventing cancers such as breast cancer and prostate cancer. Below are people who should say no to orange juice.
People who have just had surgery
Orange juice contains mostly citric acid with relatively high content. They usually exist in the form of sodium citrate salt, a substance commonly used as an anticoagulant. This substance will form a complex with Ca++ ions, thereby hindering the formation of prothrombinase and thrombin, which are important factors involved in the blood clotting process.
Therefore, people who have had gastrointestinal surgery such as stomach, intestines... where the surgical wounds have not fully recovered, even in cases of ulcers with a risk of bleeding... should be careful when eating citrus fruits to avoid bleeding at the injured site.
People who are taking medication, especially antibiotics
Orange juice is not a good choice to take with antibiotics. Orange juice contains acid which can damage the chemical structure of the drugs. And once the specific chemical structure is lost, the antibiotics will no longer have the power to kill bacteria. The patient will be at risk of prolonged infection.
This is because orange juice contains a substance similar to naringin, which inactivates two drug transport enzymes, OATP1A2 and CYP3A4. Without these two enzymes activated, it is difficult for the drug to be fully absorbed.
People with stomach pain
Many people think that orange juice is good for health so they can drink it at any time. In fact, this is not true, orange juice can be good for many people but harmful to others.
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If you have a stomach ulcer, duodenal ulcer or pancreatitis, you should not drink orange juice because it contains many organic substances that increase stomach acid, cause heartburn and make the ulcer worse.
Drinking orange juice has a laxative effect, so if you have diarrhea, dilute it with water and drink it little by little.
Do not drink orange juice at night
You should not drink orange juice at night because orange juice has the effect of producing body fluids and is diuretic, easily causing nocturia, causing insomnia.
Do not drink on an empty stomach
Orange juice is best drunk on a full stomach, not an empty stomach, 1-2 hours after eating.