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CTV: Healthy teen died of heart problems after drinking too much caffeine, coroner says
Healthy teen died of heart problems after drinking too much caffeine, coroner says
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A coroner says a healthy 16-year-old South Carolina high school student died from heart problems after drinking too much caffeine. Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said Monday that Davis Cripe had no pre-existing heart condition that might have caused him to collapse and die in a classroom last month.
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That poor kid. I feel like there was some kind of Red Bull backlash years ago, but does anyone really talk about the risk of too much caffeine?
As an aside, I had no clue Mountain Dew had caffeine in it. That drink just confuses the hell out of me.
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I NEED THOSE PILLS. Also, "the youngsters." 👍
Apparently, the amount of caffeine the kid had was pretty average for an adult to consume over the course of a day--it's just that he had it all at once. Honestly, I wouldn't have thought it could kill you.
I think caffeine is one of those things we all joke about, like haha I need a bucket of coffee or haha I'm totally having a caffeine overdose. I'm not saying it should be under lock and key, but a basic health class "do not exceed x mgs over the course of x hrs" might be worthwhile.
Still doesn't explain Mountain Dew, tho. ☺
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The thing about Mountain Dew that mystifies me is that (from what I remember) it doesn't taste like it should have caffeine. And it's called "Mountain Dew." It's soda-pop that evokes flower petals, tastes like fruit, jacks you up like coffee, and is marketed using X-TREME (GRRRR) imagery. It's a carbonated identity crisis. ☺
As for caffeine, I was literally not thinking past a tylenol-level warning (delivered in one chewable sentence in a phys-ed class or something).
Cigarette-type warnings lack immediacy. And while I totally agree a decent home-ec class should be mandatory, the benefits of those won't address immediate issues.
But there are lots of people who smoke or are otherwise unhealthy but still only "take two tablets every four to six hours, not exceeding a maximum dosage of eight tablets per day." Often, handing people a concrete number and saying "not more than this" is fairly effective.