Energy Drinks may put you at serious risk…

The study presented at an American Heart Association Scientific meeting in Chicago, looked at three years of data collected from all 55 poison control centers around U.S. between Oct. 2010 and Sept. 2013.

Report says, “Thousands of children younger than 6 year have experienced adverse effects after consuming energy drinks, and with some suffering serious heart and neurological symptoms”

“Energy Drink have no place in pediatric diet,” Dr. Steven Lipshultz, the study’s lead author and head of the pediatrics department at Wayne State University and Chief pediatrician at Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, said in press conference.  In 2007, he noticed that an increase in number of children was coming to hospital’s emergency room after consuming energy drinks. This incident made him interested in this topic.

Energy drinks become more dangerous if it contains alcohol. In 2010, U.S. FDA has banned combination of alcohol-energy drinks. But study indicates that people has continue to mix the drinks on their own. Main dangerous side effects that are associated with these drinks are – seizures, irregular heartbeats, high blood pressure and liver damage.

Mostly energy drinks manufactures claim, their drinks contain caffeine less than coffee. But these may contain pharmaceutical grade caffeine along with additives that may contain even more of stimulant that can cause heart to race and blood pressure to rise.

He said caffeine poisoning can occur at levels higher than 400 milligrams a day in adults; above 100 mg a day in adolescents and at thresholds greater than 2.5 mg per 2.2 pounds of body weight in children under the age of 12. A typical cup of brewed coffee holds 100 to 150 mg.

 “Energy drinks are not appropriate drinks for kids. At best, they are dye-laden sugar bombs without any nutritional value and these new data, like other case reports, show that they could be dangerous to kids,” said Laura MacCleery, chief regulatory attorney for the center. She added that FDA should impose the same caffeine limit on the drinks that it uses for sodas.


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