A 21-year-old man who drank 4 energy drinks a day was hospitalized with heart and kidney failure (patient, plan)

[Suburban_Guy]

The guy was drinking 640 mg of caffeine every single day for two years.

The FDA recommends an upper safe limit of 400 mg per day (most people in the UK consume far less, around 122 - 143 mg/day).

https://www.yahoo.com/news/21-old-ma...004200081.html

A 21-year-old man was hospitalized for heart failure and kidney failure after drinking more than half a gallon worth of energy drink every day for two years, according to a case study published April 15 in BMJ Case Reports.

Although he eventually recovered, the man was initially considered as a candidate for organ transplants, and he spent more than a week in intensive care, and nearly two months total in the hospital.

The patient drank four 500 milliliter cans of energy drink daily, wrote the study authors from St Thomas' Hospital in London.

That's about 640 mg of caffeine a day, well over the recommended safe dosage of 400 mg of caffeine, according to the FDA.

[tickyul]

It was the caffeine that did all that?

[Malloric]

Somehow I suspect more than caffeine. Poor diet, lack of sleep, drugs and alcohol. I existed on coffee through college. 600 mgs happened by 10 or 11:00, 800 was about the minimum, 1,200 to 1,500 on days I had labs, worked nights, or was cramming. I was usually doing one of those.