Maybe? But mouths heal so damn fast - and getting hot coffee on a wound sounds nasty
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sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 days agoCould having open wounds in your mouth allow caffeine in a beverage to directly enter your blood stream much more quickly than when it is processed by your digestive system?
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
It could be a cool or lukewarm beverage with caffeine, and I have seen people drink and eat stuff their dentists tell them not to after an oral surgery, and tonsilectomies can leave open wounds if the dentist doesn’t fully cauterize them or bandage them properly…
But southsamurai seems confident that the difference between absorption into exposed oral capillaries and just normally through your gums/mouth is negligible.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Good points, indeed
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
If you have a wound open enough for the coffee to get into the bloodstream directly, you won’t be drinking anything, much less coffee. But the amounts you’d be able to get in that way, it would be negligible. Not enough to have any increase in the effects of caffeine for sure.
Tbh, even if you’re holding the coffee in your mouth, have an open wound, and are applying pressure you force the coffee into the wound, you’re talking a drop of actual coffee that would get into your system. There’s not enough caffeine in that to do anything compared to swallowing the mouthful instead.
It’s one of those things where you’d have to jump through so many hoops you get even a single sip of coffee into the bloodstream through the mouth that it might as well be impossible. Just holding the coffee in there and letting any of the chemicals in it get into your system passively through absorption would net you a higher amount of caffeine than trying to get it in the capillaries more directly.