How drinking too much coffee affects health

According to pharmacist Le Kim Phung, former lecturer at Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, coffee has the effect of stimulating the nervous system and increasing alertness.alert, reduce fatigue,improve mind. However, if users abusecan cause many serious health effects, especially for children.

Anxiety and depression

Excessive caffeine consumption increases depression and reduces work performance. Users always feel stressed, anxious, and restless. They also experience sleep problems, digestive disorders, increased heart rate, and even death.

Harmful to the fetus

Caffeine can cross the placenta and directly affect the fetus.When women drink too much coffee during pregnancy, it increases the risk of miscarriage, premature birth, abnormal fetal heart rate and childslow development.Besides, cCaffeine also prevents ovulation into the uterus.affect the conception process. Mothers who are breastfeeding should limit drinking because it will cause difficulty sleeping for the baby.

Risk of many diseases

Coffee abuse causes minsomnia, headache,heartburn, urinary incontinence, and night sweats in premenopausal women. Caffeine increases pain in gout patients. Long-term use of this drink causesThe user's mood is easily agitated due to increased heart rate and blood pressure.

Some drugs that interact with caffeine such as antibiotics, bronchodilators, diuretics, estrogens, antipsychotics, and antidepressants can increase the risk of seizures for users.

Poisoning

When a person is poisoned by caffeine, the first symptom to recognize is persistent vomiting. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends that parents pay more attention to their children because products containing this substance are attracting young people, especially teenagers.

A new study published on theJournal of Nutrition Education and Behaviorshows that parents and friends greatly influence adolescents' coffee drinking habits.