I am in the early stages of trying to nail my gastro problems which I have had for 20 years but which been worsening dramatically over the last couple of years. I have always had a suspicion that black tea is bad news for me, a suspicion however, which I have tried to supress because black tea is part of culture, my life my pleasure, you name it, a beverage more important for me than alcohol. Anyway, this Christmas and New Year were especially terrible-no surprises, since I ate and drank all kinds of wrong things and I know that alcohol is connected with D in my case. A few days of abstemiousness-herbal tea and spelt later things calmed down and yesterday I ate nothing except spelt crusts, and spelt noodles and drank herbal tea. Felt as right as rain in my stomach. This morning I had the spelt crusts but drank two cups of quite strong black tea (no sugar) more or less deliberately, wondering if anything would happen. Sure enough, two hours later I had to run to the toilet for the usual horror. This evening and tomorrow I shall have crusts and herbal tea and if there is then no D I'll have to face the fact that blak tea is almost certainly a culprit and a no-no for me, which will be very sad; all probably points to histamine incompatibility.
Or you could try other teas.. other than green or black. I find I have to make mine really weak and skip any milk, cream or sugar in it.But still stands to reason... if it irritates.. avoid it.
