Caffeine Intoxication: Unregulated, Over-the-Counter Sale of Potentially Deadly Supplements

Caffeine is an integral part of beverages, food, and medications. Severe intoxication of caffeine is rare, and reports are even scarcer. However, over-the-counter, unregulated sale of performance-enhancing compounds, such as caffeine, turns high-dose consumption into a real concern. Severe intoxicat...

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Autores principales: Pina Cabral, João, Sousa, David L, Carvalho, Catarina, Girao, Adriana, Pacheco Mendes, Adriano, Pina, Rui
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8824417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35155012
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21045
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Sousa, David L
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Girao, Adriana
Pacheco Mendes, Adriano
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description Caffeine is an integral part of beverages, food, and medications. Severe intoxication of caffeine is rare, and reports are even scarcer. However, over-the-counter, unregulated sale of performance-enhancing compounds, such as caffeine, turns high-dose consumption into a real concern. Severe intoxication may be fatal, usually by malignant cardiac arrhythmia. We report a case of a 23-year-old university student who accidentally consumed about 100 times the amount present in an expresso of anhydrous caffeine.
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spelling pubmed-88244172022-02-11 Caffeine Intoxication: Unregulated, Over-the-Counter Sale of Potentially Deadly Supplements Pina Cabral, João Sousa, David L Carvalho, Catarina Girao, Adriana Pacheco Mendes, Adriano Pina, Rui Cureus Emergency Medicine Caffeine is an integral part of beverages, food, and medications. Severe intoxication of caffeine is rare, and reports are even scarcer. However, over-the-counter, unregulated sale of performance-enhancing compounds, such as caffeine, turns high-dose consumption into a real concern. Severe intoxication may be fatal, usually by malignant cardiac arrhythmia. We report a case of a 23-year-old university student who accidentally consumed about 100 times the amount present in an expresso of anhydrous caffeine. Cureus 2022-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8824417/ /pubmed/35155012 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21045 Text en Copyright © 2022, Pina Cabral et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Pina Cabral, João
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Caffeine Intoxication: Unregulated, Over-the-Counter Sale of Potentially Deadly Supplements
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title_sort caffeine intoxication: unregulated, over-the-counter sale of potentially deadly supplements
topic Emergency Medicine
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