A young man has nearly passed away after downing multiple energy drinks on a daily basis.
The 26-year-old, who remains anonymous, was rushed to the ER after experiencing severe and prolonged pain in his chest and his left arm.
According to the reports, the pain lasted for several hours, whereas the man felt sick and was sweating throughout the ordeal.
After arriving at a hospital in Texas, US, the doctors discovered that the man’s blood pressure, heart rate, and oxygen levels were all in the right place according to The Sun report.
However, the staff quickly came across a complete blockage of an artery as well as several different abnormalities.
While the 26-year-old denied using any drugs, he admitted to smoking a pack of cigarettes per day and drinking up to ten cans of energy drinks.
In the report on the bizarre case which was presented in Case Reports in Emergency Medicine, co-author Daniel Solomin wrote:
“Energy drink consumption is a growing health concern due to limited regulation and increasing use, especially in younger demographics.
“With substantially higher caffeine content than soft drinks or coffee beverages, in some cases, as well as other poorly studied substances, there is significant potential for harm, especially when consumed in large quantities.”
After spending two days in the hospital, the young man was given prescriptions and discharged on the promise that he would stop smoking and consuming energy drinks.
“A typical energy drink has approximately 0.34 mg of caffeine per ml, meaning our patient consumed between 1.2 and 1.6 g of caffeine per day, with a lethal dose of caffeine being between approximately 10 g of oral caffeine based on animal studies. However, smaller doses of caffeine may be fatal,” the report added.
“We hypothesize that the significant quantity of energy drinks consumed by our patient, in the absence of any known genetic risk factors, contributed to the formation of the acute thrombus occluding the patient’s coronary blood vessel.
“We hypothesize that vasospasm caused by excessive levels of caffeine, along with possible effects from other substances in energy drinks, reduced flow in the coronary vessel to such a degree that a thrombus was able to form.”
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