In all cases, the cause of death was attributed to cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation. The main witness could not say which brand of energy drink Davis drank but said it was from a container the size of a large soft drink. Five caffeine-related deaths (5) among athletes have been described in the literature these subjects were two amateur body builders, a basketball player and a wrestler 33, 35, 38. “We’re not saying that it was the total amount of caffeine in the system, it was just the way that it was ingested over that short period of time, and the chugging of the energy drink at the end was what the issue was with the cardiac arrhythmia.”Ĭaffeine would probably not have been seen as a factor in the teenager’s death if witnesses had not been able to tell officials what he had been drinking before his death, the Richland County coroner said. WYFF, a local NBC affiliate, reports Davis Allen Cripe, 16, died after a probable. “This is not a caffeine overdose,” Mr Watts told Reuters news agency. teen dies of caffeine overdose 9:40 AM PHT Agence France-Presse Before Davis Allen Cripe collapsed, he drank a cafe latte, a large. A South Carolina teen is dead after a caffeine overdose last month, a new coroners report revealed. The teenager weighed 90kg (200 lbs) but would not have been considered morbidly obese, Mr Watts said. The 16-year-old died from a “caffeine-induced cardiac event causing a probable arrhythmia”.
teenager has died after consuming too many high-caffeine drinks in a short space of.
A healthy teenager in the US state of South Carolina died from drinking several highly-caffeinated drinks too quickly, a coroner has ruled.ĭavis Allen Cripe collapsed at a high school in April after drinking a McDonald’s latte, a large Mountain Dew soft drink and an energy drink in just under two hours, Gary Watts said. A coffee, a caffeinated drink and an energy soda proved a deadly combination for a South Carolina teenager who died within two hours of consuming them, triggering warnings about the risks of caffeine overdose. A Teenage Boy Has Died From A Caffeine Overdose.
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