Man died after overdosing on caffeine mints

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/man-died-after-overdosing-on-caffeine-mints-8874964.html

by brokenparser • 13 years ago

4 2 13 years ago

independent.co.uk

GeorgeOrr• 13 years ago

From the article:

“I am sure this is the first time in my experience we have come across what was literally a caffeine overdose. "

The energy mints have been around a long time, as have other high caffeine sources. And yet apparently this sort of tragedy is so completely rare.

Hopefully then, we wont have any alarmists calling for banning something that has been so safe apparently.

lumberjack• 13 years ago

The article seems to contradict itself:

Dr Dragana Cvijan, a pathologist, told the court that 79 milligrammes of caffeine has been known to cause death and that a post mortem revealed Mr Jackson had 155 milligrammes in his system when he died.

I think this is to be interpreted to mean that caffeine overdose is not the only way in which caffeine could cause or contribute towards death.

Man died after overdosing on caffeine mints

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