When you drink tea, why do you feel you have to go to the bathroom more often?

Question

Today I drank tea and I started to have this urge to urinate every twenty minutes. What is in tea that makes us go to the bathroom more often?

Answer 1

maybe it's cleaning out your sistem or doing something like that that's why you  urinate every 20 minutes!

Answer 2

Regular teas usually have caffeine.  Caffeine is a diuretic which makes you need to urinate plus the liquid that you consumed all adds up to increased need to go to the bathroom.

Answer 3

Caffeine is a diuretic.  That means it causes the body to excrete more water than it otherwise would.

Answer 4

Tea or coffee will stimulate your kidneys and cause you to urinate.

Answer 5

Depends on how much tea you drink. If you drink the whole jug, then yeah. One cup shouldn't make you go anymore than one cup of water or coke or sprite or orange juice.

Answer 6

I watched 60 minutes last night.  (First time in a long time).

They had a lot of ads about guys who do cool stuff like deep sea fishing, bike riding, kyacking and riding around in convertibles.  These guys have just the symptoms you have.  Perhaps you should see a doctor.