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- mentallyinhell, on 05/28/2008, -14/+38This is sounding like those old antimarijuana adds: "Pot kills, and causes homicidal urges." Not only innacurate, but possibly backwards. Maybe its just the risktakers that like energydrinks, not the drink that creates risktakers.
- showpup, on 05/28/2008, -4/+26Caffeine is also attributed to being able to cause miscarriages. (scientifically proven, guys)
- vvargoal, on 05/28/2008, -1/+23oh come now. caffeine is a drug and causes mental changes, but so does sugar and countless other substances. if you drink enough of anything it will kill you; it's all about moderation. i for one enjoy my daily grande latte enema.
- 47f0, on 05/28/2008, -2/+23Oh Please...
Freakin' water can send you to the emergency room:
http://www.nbc11.com/news/10762819/detail.html
Moderation, folks - to much of a good thing is frequently just too much. - pogitalonx, on 05/28/2008, -0/+18I have overdosed on caffeine and let me tell you, it is NO joke. I find your comment ignorant and dangerous. I've been drunk out of my mind, puking and finding myself in random places, and i'd rather OD on alcohol any day rather than OD on caffeine.
Like Drahkar and wikipedia says, caffeine intoxication is horrific. Instead of the world becoming a slur it becomes more of a panic, then it becomes a delusional mess. Splitting headaches, dizziness, fever like symptoms. On alcohol when you get drunk you pass out and sleep-- on caffeine you lay there in a state of utter shock for hours realizing you can barely move. Not the best way to spend an evening, I'll tell you that! - ClarkBender, on 05/28/2008, -3/+19Man, there goes my afternoon Amp Slurpee...
- inactive, on 05/28/2008, -1/+15My secret weakness. With coffee, rich foods, cheese, red meat, spicy condiments ...
- thembx, on 05/28/2008, -1/+13quit energy drinks.....do cocaine
- jb0nd38372, on 05/28/2008, -0/+11Quit cocaine. Take my wife, she'll keep you up for hours...... Nagging.
- Dumbledorito, on 05/28/2008, -0/+11I'm sure these drinks do cause those symptoms, when consumed in quantities that would be the liquid equivalent of a meth bender. Much in the same way Olestra caused a lot of problems when people thought that having chips with Olestra meant you could eat your previous 1-day consumption of Doritos at every sitting.
- augmental, on 05/28/2008, -3/+13/singing Red Bull & Vodka...that cool refreshing drink...
- Gabberwok, on 05/28/2008, -0/+10Are they sure it's the red bull and not the vodka/cocaine/ecstasy people are using with it?
- inJanuary, on 05/28/2008, -3/+13I've already quit.
- MendotaLee, on 05/28/2008, -1/+10Rockstar is owned by the son of Michael Savage, the crazy right wing commentator. Worth boycotting if you have a chance to, because the son is as crazy as his dad.
- przemeklach, on 05/28/2008, -2/+11All I know is that I owe several passing grades in courses to Rockstar. Long live the energy drink!
- duggdowncatisad, on 05/28/2008, -3/+12Oh noes! You mean if some dumbass has too much caffeine all at once there's a .01% chance they might get scared and call 911? I heard if you chug a gallon of Starbucks all at once the same thing might happen. Ban Starbucks! Espresso is an express-road to the hospital or worse! Do it for the children!
- BlackJackJester, on 05/28/2008, -1/+10Well, caffeine is a drug, and a close relative of cocaine. As with any drug, excessive intake can mess you up. the LD-50 of caffeine is about 1g/10kg of body weight. For your average person, that is like 8-12g (depending on tolerance - which most people have in spades). A shot of espresso has about 200-500mg, so it's hard to really die from it, but caffeine OD isn't unheard of.
- DeathJux, on 05/28/2008, -0/+8That is not a good thing.
I take caffeine sparingly, so that when I need to get something important done, I can "open a can" and go straight Pop-Eye on whatever the task is at hand. - Haoie, on 05/28/2008, -0/+8You'll be fine drinking them, as long as you don't down a dozen in an hour, or something.
Scaremongering, as usual. - dudefaceguyman, on 05/28/2008, -0/+8The people getting sick part is total *****. People really are just goddamn morons who think that skipping a meal and just having a energy drink is ok. The energy drink isn't making them sick, it's from not ***** EATING. It's ridiculous, my physical therapy trainer told me everyone constantly treats them the same way as power bars and such thinking there's vitamins and ***** in there.
Drinks like Amped/Rockstar/Red Bull/ect are a great for a quick boost of energy nothing more. Some people are just too stupid to realize that.
So..Well -yes they're causing people to get sick. But only the stupid ones that pretty much deserve to get sick anyways. - Whaines, on 05/28/2008, -1/+9And just enough sugar for diabetes by 30!
- xerigen, on 05/28/2008, -0/+7Yeah, I can just see it now: hundreds of parents scolding their kids.. telling them to not drink energy drinks as they down a coffee from Starbucks with an equal amount of caffeine (if not more).
- w3v3, on 05/28/2008, -0/+7The only relevance with what I'm about to say, to the story is redbull.
One night I was the dessignated driver, so alchohol was a no go. I decided to have redbulls all night. I had about 10, then I started to feel strange. I started feeling the exact same way I do when I'm drunk. Blurred vision etc.
Lets just say it was a stupid idea to drink that many. Getting drunk off redbull can't be good. - Drahkar, on 05/28/2008, -1/+8Actually some of these drinks do contain high levels of Caffeine. Caffeine is actually a toxin and if you ingest enough can cause hot flashes, heart palpitation and nausea. Given enough Caffeine into the system it can cause death. But in smaller doses it does have positive uses as a stimulant, not limiting to helping with headaches and similar type pains in the body.
This links to the whole section on caffeine but is pointed directly at the section on the effects of Overdosing on Caffeine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine#Caffeine_int ...
That goes into good detail of the effects of Caffeine when taken to the point of overdosing. Its referred to as Caffeine Intoxication. - Nowtheworld336, on 05/28/2008, -0/+7Eh, kids are stupid
- Tokkii, on 05/28/2008, -0/+6I'm studying to be a ECG Tech and I have all but sworn to never drink another energy drink because of it. Without diving too deep into the details, there are lots of little pacemakers in your heart. They get irritated pretty easy. Low oxygen, cocaine, digitalis, caffeine and a host of other things. When they get pissy they take over the main pacemaker of your heart and flip your rate from a nice steady 60-100 beats a min, to anywhere between 150-250. If you have a healthy heart, this can be distressing but (in most cases) not too harmful as long as you get it calmed down. Better hope you don't have Prolonged Q-T syndrome though.
- bxblox, on 05/28/2008, -1/+7There are slurpees?????
- toothcake, on 05/28/2008, -0/+6My friend ended up in an emergency room because of drinking Red Bulls. He drank them daily, and one day he decided to have 3 or so of them (maybe more, I can't remember) and his heart rate increased to an almost a fatal level. Had to be rushed via ambulance.
Just don't be a retard and drink more then what it says on the can. - bimmerdude, on 05/28/2008, -2/+8It might be just me but i can drink 3 monsters a day and not feel the buzz, just a little sleepy .
- monsterette, on 05/28/2008, -0/+6...seems like with anything...caffeine intake combined with some medications, eating and fitness rituals all kind of play a part in the whole thing...
- thembx, on 05/28/2008, -0/+6they talk about redline and spike. those both have copious amounts of caffeine. thats why the kids are sick. per serving they have like 4x the normal amount found in most energy drinks. ban them? no. natural selection.
- Coolmatt49, on 05/28/2008, -0/+6I can see this as true. There is so much caffeine and other stuff inside Energy Drinks. If you drink them every-so-often it won't kill you, but drinking them everyday can really affect your health.
- TyrannousDotNet, on 05/28/2008, -1/+6from being too Xtreme?
- wintersland, on 05/28/2008, -0/+5So when you OD on Caffeine its nothing like Futurama?
*puts down 99th cup of coffee* - Afrochu, on 05/28/2008, -1/+6Another sensationalist ***** story about the sky falling on our heads.
- ryanhayn, on 05/28/2008, -1/+6Concerta + Red Bull help me live long time!
- ColonelTribune, on 05/28/2008, -0/+5I've heard caffeine just dries you out. So when you combine it with any sort of physical activity, it's a bad thing.
- zombird, on 05/28/2008, -0/+5If it were legal street gangs and covert organizations couldn't profit from black market prices. You wouldn't want that, would you?
- soupdawg30, on 05/28/2008, -0/+5I do know that some people have adverse reactions to energy drinks. If you have a heart condition you should not drink them.
- et3rnalnigh7, on 05/28/2008, -0/+4""toxic jock" behavior, a constellation of risky and aggressive behaviors including unprotected sex, substance abuse and violence."
NO, just no. - Dumbledorito, on 05/28/2008, -2/+6Indeed. It caused one in me, and it also made my uterus disappear when I went to see my doctor afterwards.
It was there before! I swear! - Nextrix, on 05/28/2008, -2/+6While we are at it lets stop buying Coke and Pepsi and all the major cola brands! I personally have started to become addicted to drinking more water, and sometimes it works better than energy drinks (not all the time, especially when I need a quick boost). Overall I think energy drinks are not the problem as we will always have quick fixes for all things in life, some good fixes and some bad. I think we need to start asking ourselves why we are so tired as society in the first place and what is really making us all loose so much sleep. Overworking into the late hours of the night, too much sex at night, laziness, or maybe just the fact that we have become to prone to have an easy way out of all our problems in our first world nation.
Question your actions.
....Oh sh*t look at the time! - Nubli, on 05/28/2008, -0/+4I drank a Redline Extreme the other night before a concert. I couldn't sit still for more than 3 seconds.
- lime148, on 05/28/2008, -0/+4Not like they'll have a chance to test it.
- bg2500, on 05/28/2008, -1/+5I would not call someone a pussy for using caffeine to stay awake. Maybe if they are that dependent they should look at making some lifestyle changes such as getting more sleep and better nutrition, but they are not a pussy.
Drugs have a time and place and can be used properly. Consume the drug, don't let it consume you. - iamdak, on 05/28/2008, -0/+4I know all this already and still love it. Also, I'd rather not mess around with crack.
- kewagi, on 05/28/2008, -0/+410 regular red bulls will put about a gram of caffeine into your body. Add to the the massive amounts of sugar the stuff comes with, and you'll look at the equivalent of 30 cans of coke and two dozen donuts. And I'd be very worried if someone who consumed that wouldn't feet very strange afterwards :)
- kewagi, on 05/28/2008, -0/+4I call *****. A regular can of Red Bull (330ml) contains about 110mg of caffeine - someone who more or less regularly consumes caffeine can consume 1,5 to 2 grams before encountering negative side effects, and the deadly dose is more than twice as high. Since caffeine has a very high habituation effect, these dosages are much higher for people who regularly drink coffee or energy drinks.
Either those kids drank vast amounts of the stuff, or they are allergic or highly sensitive to caffeine. In either case, this was caused by human incompetence, not by the drinks.
By the way: Every year, a few dozen people worldwide die of water intoxication. OMG! BAN WATER NAO! - illestlyrics, on 05/28/2008, -2/+6Seriously, what is healthy for you? Stop telling me that I'm going to die. (I already know)
What am I suppose to do for energy when I have 12 hours of work/school a day?
Of course, we could all start drinking soda that's about a dollar for a liter. I'll just drink three liters of soda instead of one Monster. -
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