Energy Drink overdose = Little brother

**SWVA-Football** · March 30th, 2006, 05:22 PM

So yeah.. today my brother (13 years old) gulped down two energy drinks in a row and started getting really sick becuase of it.

He did it at school (during lunch I believe) and my mom had to bring him home as a result..

I know this thread probably seems more personal than anything and like something that nobody really cares about, but I'm just saying that the threat of getting too much too fast is indeed very real and you will threaten bodily harm if you drink those things too fast too quickly!

I Googled up some info about energy drink overdoses, and I've seen the word "Death" all over the place, which scares the hell out of me considering this is my brother we're talking about.

I pretty much love energy drinks myself, but after seeing what happened to him today (he's doing OK now, thank god), I'll definitely be more considerate about how much I consume at a time.. although I normally only drink one or two in the span of an entire day.

Be careful guys!

**steer** · March 30th, 2006, 06:34 PM

yup, my brother drank a bunch one night at a lock-in at G2k and they didn't put a limit on his intake. They didn't watch it, and he didn't eat anything. He wound up in the hospital the next day, and it gave him irregular heart beat. Screwed him good.. that's why I hate G2k

**Diets17** · March 30th, 2006, 06:51 PM

Im against energy drinks, especially in the teen years. Why should someone so young need a boost of energy? Fake energy at that, its just sugar and caffeine mostly. Also vitamins you should be getting from either a multi vitamin or eating right. Real energy is calories. Eat right, take your vitamins, especially b-vitamins and you will have all the energy you need. Energy drinks are unheatlhy physically. Look at it this way, what if you become dependent on that direct kind of energy. Your performance in everyday life will becoming from these drinks. So many in America wake up everyday to drink thier expressos and coffee when they could just be eating a good healthy cereal that has everything you need. Wonder why so many are burnt out?

**imported_VTgal** · March 30th, 2006, 07:35 PM

I don't understand why people are chuggin' energy drinks? Are they looking for a "buzz" or something?

Red Bull used to put a truck full of their stuff in front of the empo especially around finals time and hand it out for free. So walking in I would get a sugar-free and it just gave me a little boost to focus on studying.

Hey, at least I wasn't poppin' adderall like most everyone around me. I earned my grades drug free (minus caffeine)!

**SWVA-Football** · March 30th, 2006, 07:39 PM

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Red Bull used to put a truck full of their stuff in front of the empo especially around finals time and hand it out for free. So walking in I would get a sugar-free and it just gave me a little boost to focus on studying.

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Red Bull RULES!

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**burton2019** · March 30th, 2006, 07:43 PM

you are on here initially bitching about energy drinks and now you say red bull rocks?

make up your mind

**Biggin** · March 30th, 2006, 08:22 PM

You lettin your age show a bit VTgal, they dont really prescribe adderall anymore. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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**the_alienist** · March 30th, 2006, 10:43 PM

Adderall has the same chemical makeup that speed and cocaine have, it is an amphetamine. I work with two crack addicts and a handful of meth abusers, you know what one of the common starting points between them is? Adderall was one of the first substances that they used. It is so dangerous when not taken as prescribed, and even when taken as directed it can still cause serious side effects.

The thing with energy drinks that really makes them so dangerous is the fact that they combine large amounts of sugar, which causes your blood sugar to spike, which inturn causes insulin to be fed into the system to break it down. Add to that extremely high amounts of caffeine, a powerful diuretic, and when the sugar has been broken down and the heart has been working in response to the caffeine, all of the important electrolytes are leeched out of the system due to the size of the sugar and caffeine molecules.
Caffeine is a drug like anything else, and in large enough amounts, it adversely affects the body, and can even damage heart muscle.

**Craes** · March 30th, 2006, 10:50 PM

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You lettin your age show a bit VTgal, they dont really prescribe adderall anymore. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Yeah they do, I work in a child and adolescent with a psychiatrist....trust me they do still prescribe adderall, on a regular basis.