Death bt Caffeine

[CowGirl]

How much caffeine will it take to kill you?


http://www.energyfiend.com/death-by-caffeine/

[Darren Dirt]

WOW! Great find!


A few surprising comparisons, I kept the same weight and compared the # of servings to "kill me"...

JOLT is almost identical (as in identically scary) as MONSTER.

Pepsi has a bit more caffeine than Coke.

Barq's root beer has less bite than you'd think -- around half of Coke/Pepsi.

Barq's cream soda is indeed caffeine free.

And one that hits close to home... Not all iced tea is equal! Nestea is the worst (comparable to Coke/Pepsi ), but the "Lemon Sweetened" kind has quite a bit less. And Lipton Brisk has *way* less caffeine than either of the Nestea products.



Compare actual numbers here:
http://www.energyfiend.com/the-caffeine-database/

[Lazybones]

I expect more from the Thread Resurrection Specialist

This has been posted before however it did get a small response.

I was looking at it during the last Frag, trying to figure out if drinking too much Bawls or PowerShots was possible.

[Darren Dirt]

* Darren Dirt hangs head in shame

^neat, I typed "/me" and the forum auto-wrapped a [ me ] tag around the line


GEEZ man, it was in October of 2005! I'm not divine ya know...

[Lazybones]

LOL

[Darren Dirt]

From the FAQ, found this...

http://www.screamingenergy.com/
"We have reviewed the following 104 energy drinks..."
i.e. "sure it's gonna give me a wicked buzz, but will it taste like cat piss or monkey piss?" :-\

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Also, from http://www.energyfiend.com/2006/08/what-time-frame-for-the-death-by-caffeine-calculator...

It is IMPOSSIBLE to get an LD-50 from drinking energy drinks, coffee etc, no matter how much you drink, your stomach WILL not be big enough to hold in about 10g of caffine, 200mg of coffee (100mg caffine) X 50 = 5000mg * 1/0.93 / 1000 = 5.3 liters? a human body can hold about 2-4 liters.

So the only way you are going to get LD-50 is by consuming pure caffine, usually by pills. if you have 100mg pills, you need 50 pills for a LD-50 (50% of a lethal dose) or 200mg pills you need 25 of them.

At about 1g of caffine in about a 1-1.5hours you will notice symptoms of Acute caffeine poisoning gives early symptoms of anorexia, tremor, and restlessness.

At about 5g in about 1hour+, you will notice nausea, vomiting, and confusion.

7-8g you may have delirium, seizures, and hyperglycemia.

10-12g (LD-50) usually at 2hours+ you may notice nervousness, irritability, anxiety, muscle twitching, insomnia, palpitations and hyperreflexia.

So the average human has about 10g in 4-6hour period, in about 2 hours you will have a 50% chance of becoming a fatal victom of caffine.

*whew*