Energy drinks containing caffeine drink habit-forming or even a large number of poisoning

Currently, the U.S. market of energy drinks (containing caffeine and other stimulants, can be refreshing drink) hundreds, many children are very difficult to resist the temptation. California Middle School eighth-grade students in a Mani. Causey said: "After drinking the spirit is very inspiring." Mani 14-year-old, drink three or four times a week, her favorite caffeine beverages high in sugar. If out of playing basketball games, she was particularly drink energy drinks to "excited about." However, these different brands of energy drinks have a common characteristic, that is, contains large amounts of caffeine, for children and young people are developing the body can cause serious injury.

 

Energy drinks like a drug overdose poisoning

According to the United States, "Beverage Digest" magazine reported that the U.S. energy drink is already as high as 49 billion industry in 2006 had listed hundreds of new drinks, including caffeine contained in many brands of soft drinks higher than the traditional one or two times. Special notes of coffee, too, contains astonishingly high in sugar and calories, is tantamount to a direct swallowed the chocolate bars stomach. Young people in primary and secondary schools are this way, and therefore on the absorption of caffeine and addiction, not knowing which they are developing the body may have serious consequences.

 

In the United States, St. Louis, common to local young people in school before the first coffee shop line up to buy special notes of coffee (such as mocha coffee, etc.). Pediatric cardiologist Dr. Angela. Xiaqi that children seem to have become addicted to the trend. Over the past five years, Dr. Xia Qi increasing number of patients, symptoms include dizziness, fainting and so on. She said: "These kids have emerged dehydration, because they've got nothing to drink all day, you drink caffeine drinks added." She let sick children with a bottle of water and diagnostic instructions back to school, it is recommended These students should be allowed to drink in the classroom. She said that excessive caffeine intake, there are even more serious consequences, likely to cause rapid heart beat, palpitations, and even convulsions.

 

Stephen. Mading Nai Village from Georgia Quennet County, this 16-year-old High School boys heard that appeared on the market a new brand of energy drinks (up to 280 milligrams of caffeine), named "Cocaine", and decided to give it a try. 25-year-old Dan. Meyer try to drink a few dozens of different brands of beverages, the results published in his blog (energy drink reviews Energy Drink Review) Lane. Mading Nai Village drank 3 / 4 cans "Cocaine", the only dizziness and then vomiting, was sent to the emergency room drips. He said the emergency room doctor at first thought he had a drug overdose. Blood and urine tested after they found out he was due to caffeine poisoning can lead to dehydration.

 

"Cocaine" drink has been banned.

How to determine children's caffeine addiction

All beverage manufacturers have claimed that there is no marketing aimed at children of high caffeine content of drinks, but the young people love to go places but everywhere the trace of the energy drinks.

To what extent the popularity of energy drinks? Some people uploaded to the Myspace website of pictures, with a lot of favorite drinks along with the mirror, telling the world that they can rinse the number of bottles. There are even teenagers Kuangguan energy drinks (in cans at the end of drilling a hole in a Hegan) of video uploaded to the Youtube site and, therefore, surprising that the nation's emergency rooms around the doctors and pharmaceutical experts agree that young people appear Coffee related symptoms due to increasing number of cases. University of California San Francisco School of Medicine medical cover. Cha Xiu recently treated an 18-year-old patient, with an ambulance sent toHospital, heart rate up to 220 times, far above the normal range of 60 ~ 100 times. The patient had just graduated from high school every day to drink 8 cans 16 ounces (about 453 grams) and Rockstar (the United States a kind of energy drink), to bring the spirit of a good night.

 

SmallPediatrician is not only worried about caffeine poisoning. ChildrenObesity is increasingly common era, doctors are very reluctant to see another new doorway to encourage children to drink into many calories without nutrition. Excessive intake of calories, many children have enough sleep phenomenon. National Sleep Foundation, pointed out that the age of 11 to 17-year-olds, more than half of the night's sleep less than 8 hours.

 

Even when other important exams at school, excessive caffeine use also runs the risk of. A cup of coffee may be able to concentrate on short-term people, but a row of several cans of energy drinks or drinking an entire pot of coffee, there will be counter-productive. "Your attention is actually decreasing rather than increasing." Emergency medicine professor at the University of California, Tariq. Beibo Shi said, "you will become over-vigilant, but difficult to deal with the immediate information."

 

Many adults may drink up to 300 milligrams per day of caffeine, equivalent to several cups strong coffee, but it is unlikely that such unpleasant side effects of caffeine on children, but it may have serious repercussions. Worse still, most of the energy drinks contain caffeine speed up the role of the composition. In this regard, please refer to beverage packaging marked on taurine (Taurine), and Guarana (Guarana) content.

 

Signs of excessive absorption of caffeine include: tension, irritability, insomnia, trembling, nausea orDiarrhea. That the child or adolescent caffeine intake, how much is reasonable? Many pediatricians will say categorically that any intake of caffeine is considered excessive. Pediatric nutritionist Margaret. Dr. Savoca said: "The children do not be in the intake of caffeine." She found that a daily intake of more than 100 milligrams of caffeine, easily lead to young peopleHigh blood pressure.

 

How can I tell whether your child is addicted to caffeine? See them within 24 hours, do not drink energy drinks or caffeine, then, what symptoms; if there is lethargy, not the spirit of such circumstances, orHeadache, it means reductions must be made of non-. The good news is that this addiction than the multi-drug susceptible, can be said to wish to quit the ring.