Bad reactions to green tea?

shining_light
shining_light Posts: 384 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I had, for breakfast this morning, black coffee, as I usually do. About 3 hours later, had 3 bananas (I know that's weird. They were getting old and I really wanted them. I would probably eat bananas all day if I had an unlimited supply and no one stopped me). About 40 minutes later, I had a cup of green tea. After I finished the cup of tea, I immediately felt nauseous and vomited. The tea came up mostly light colored with a lot of dark brown/black, like chocolate-colored. Honestly, it's not the first time green tea has made me vomit or feel nauseous, but it hasn't made me vomit in more than a year despite drinking it many times since then, and never has it come up looking like that. Really don't think it was blood, which would be most people's first thought. Didn't look or taste like blood.

Should I be concerned? What would have caused this?

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  • shining_light
    shining_light Posts: 384 Member
    I think I answered my own question. I have broken out in pinprick red spots all around my eyes. I would just about bet money that I've developed an allergy to it.
  • k1214
    k1214 Posts: 33 Member
    I feel nauseous after drinking green tea as well so I stopped (took me a while to confirm it was the tea that was making me feel that way). But if you vomit from it, I would definitely avoid. The red spots could be an allergic reaction (take some benadryl and see if they go away) or could be broken blood vessels from throwing up.
  • tapirfrog
    tapirfrog Posts: 616 Member
    Uh, holy crap, that's a major reaction right there.

    The pinprick spots could also be because you vomited so hard that you broke blood vessels (though I would have thought the blood vessels *in* your eyes, not *around* your eyes, would have busted first).

    I don't know what to tell you about whether or not you were vomiting blood. A lot of things can look black in vomit or poop and not be blood. ... and you know, just the fact that I'm writing these sentences tells me that whatever is happening to you is probably better handled by a physician in-person if it keeps going on.

    I'm sorry you threw up. Vomiting is my personal vision of Hell.
  • shining_light
    shining_light Posts: 384 Member
    Uh, holy crap, that's a major reaction right there.

    The pinprick spots could also be because you vomited so hard that you broke blood vessels (though I would have thought the blood vessels *in* your eyes, not *around* your eyes, would have busted first).

    I don't know what to tell you about whether or not you were vomiting blood. A lot of things can look black in vomit or poop and not be blood. ... and you know, just the fact that I'm writing these sentences tells me that whatever is happening to you is probably better handled by a physician in-person if it keeps going on.

    I'm sorry you threw up. Vomiting is my personal vision of Hell.

    I appreciate the input. And yes, when I have vomited hard enough to break blood vessels, it's been the ones in my eyes. It really was not very forceful, which to me again just indicates an allergy. Will definitely keep an eye on what I'm consuming and how I feel. Feeling a bit lightheaded right now, for obvious reasons.
  • CorlissaEats
    CorlissaEats Posts: 493 Member
    There is also the possibility that it is NOT the tea you are allergic to, but rather the chemicals and pesticides used on it before harvesting. The brown bits you were seeing could be the banana since exposure to oxygen does turn them dark over time.
    Throw out the tea. Take an anti-histamine for the spots, and see a doctor if they dont clear up. You might want to get some allergy testing done, or you can just avoid tea the rest of your life if your conviction is strong enough.
  • Cherimoose
    Cherimoose Posts: 5,208 Member
    The tea came up mostly light colored with a lot of dark brown/black, like chocolate-colored.

    Did it look like coffee grounds? If so, talk to a doctor about it. That's a classic sign of bleeding somewhere in the GI tract.. possibly an ulcer or something else. More on that here:
    http://www.healthline.com/health/coffee-ground-vomitus
  • shining_light
    shining_light Posts: 384 Member
    There is also the possibility that it is NOT the tea you are allergic to, but rather the chemicals and pesticides used on it before harvesting. The brown bits you were seeing could be the banana since exposure to oxygen does turn them dark over time.
    Throw out the tea. Take an anti-histamine for the spots, and see a doctor if they dont clear up. You might want to get some allergy testing done, or you can just avoid tea the rest of your life if your conviction is strong enough.

    My first thought was that the brown bits that was seeing were the banana, but no amount of oxygen exposure turns the inside of a banana that dark. The peel if it was really old, perhaps, but not the inside.

    And again, it is possible that it's a chemical or pesticide allergy, but I've had the nausea reaction with more than one type of green tea. I'm an idiot, aren't I, for continuing to drink it? Lol.

    And I wouldn't say it looked like coffee grounds. I probably would have noticed that since it did occur to me that it might have had something to do with the coffee I had had this morning(I dismissed that because I knew the coffee had already made its way through. Haha).

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