Male College Student’s Excessive Coffee Intake Leads to Multiple Cardiac Arrests, Muscle Breakdown, and 8 Warning Signs of Caffeine Overdose – Sky Post Health’s Guide to Diet and Exercise

Although drinking coffee can be refreshing, don’t drink too much. A doctor shared a case. A 21-year-old male college student stayed up all night studying for an exam. In order to keep himself refreshed, he drank 7.6 liters of coffee within 3 hours. However, this action caused his heart to stop 6 times, and his muscles dissolved, causing acute kidney injury.

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Chinese-American doctor Bernard Hsu posted on his YouTube channel “Chubbyemu“Sharing a case, a 21-year-old male college student usually has the habit of drinking coffee to refresh himself. One day, in order to prepare for the final exam, he decided to stay up late to study. In order to refresh himself, he brewed a pot of coffee and drank it quickly. He felt very refreshed immediately, so when the refreshing effect of the coffee wore off, he brewed coffee again. If so, he drank 2 gallons (about 7.6 liters) of coffee in just 3 hours.

But after drinking a lot of coffee, he began to sweat profusely, and his heart beat faster, accompanied by tremors, chest tightness and confusion. When he went to the toilet to urinate, he found that his urine was the same color as coffee. After lying down for a few minutes, he had a seizure and lost consciousness. His mother rushed him to the hospital. At that time, the boy’s muscles twitched constantly, and his body temperature also increased abnormally. After arriving at the hospital, he regained consciousness, but soon fell into a coma, and his heartbeat even stopped 6 times. Paramedics tried to stabilize his heartbeat but were unsuccessful. The doctor pointed out that the patient’s heart could not beat normally, it was just shaking, and it also lost the function of pumping blood, so that blood could not be supplied to the brain.

The doctor also explained that the reason why the patient’s urine was brown was not because the coffee was excreted, but because the muscle was dissolved and the protein in the muscle leaked, which made him pass out brown urine. At that time, the patient also experienced calf pain, which is also one of the symptoms of muscle dissolution. Afterwards, the doctor took medication to control his epilepsy and stabilize his heart activity; he also supplemented his blood potassium to relax his muscles and avoid further kidney damage. The patient recovered and was discharged after a period of recuperation.

The doctor continued that caffeine is a natural stimulant. Although it helps to refresh oneself, excessive intake will affect health. The patient in the above case was due to excessive drinking of coffee, which made the brain overactive, leading to epileptic seizures. In addition, the continuous release of adrenaline also makes the heart vibrate abnormally and affects the blood supply to the brain. In addition, epilepsy causes involuntary muscle contraction, resulting in high body temperature, which also dissolves muscle protein and discharges brown urine. Acute kidney injury is the result of the inability of the kidneys to filter large amounts of protein at the same time.

Doctors finally recommend that adults consume up to 400 mg of caffeine per day, so do not drink more than 4 cups of medium-cup coffee, otherwise it may affect health.

8 warning signs of caffeine overdose

Taiwanese nutritionist Gao Minmin reminds everyone that if you are a citizen who can drink 1 cup of caffeine in the morning and 1 cup in the afternoon, you should pay attention to your caffeine intake, because excessive intake of caffeine can easily affect your health:

She added that as long as the right amount of caffeine is consumed, it is actually beneficial to the body, which can help increase metabolism, refresh the mind, improve work efficiency, burn fat, and resist oxidation; moreover, caffeine is low in calories and has few additives. Everyone is a healthy choice.

5 Symptoms of Rhabdomyolysis

In addition to excessive exercise, infection, eating crayfish and taking drugs may also lead to rhabdomyolysis. Dr. Guo Meiqun, director of the Cardiology Department of the Third People’s Hospital of Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, once pointed out that rhabdomyolysis is caused by the destruction and disintegration of striated muscle due to extrusion, exercise, high fever, drugs, inflammation, etc., causing creatine kinase, myoglobin and other muscle The components in the cells enter the extracellular fluid and blood circulation, causing internal environment disorder, acute renal failure and other clinical syndromes of tissue and organ damage; severe acute kidney injury, arrhythmia, and even life-threatening may occur.

According to the doctor, severe rhabdomyolysis can lead to acute renal failure, and the clinical manifestations can be oliguria or anuria, swelling, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, etc. If the etiology can be identified early, and intervention can be performed before serious complications develop, it will be the key to improving the prognosis of patients and reducing mortality.

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Written by: Chen Jiewen