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US Teen dies from rapid caffiene intake.

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Go_Ly_Dow

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39932366

A healthy teenager in the US state of South Carolina died from drinking several highly-caffeinated drinks too quickly, a coroner has ruled.
Davis Allen Cripe collapsed at a high school in April after drinking a McDonald's latte, a large Mountain Dew soft drink and an energy drink in just under two hours, Gary Watts said.
The 16-year-old died from a "caffeine-induced cardiac event causing a probable arrhythmia".
He had no pre-existing heart condition.
The teenager weighed 90kg (200 lbs) but would not have been considered morbidly obese, Mr Watts said.

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Very sad that something so readily available could do that.
 

Prologue

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McDonald's latte, a large Mountain Dew soft drink and an energy drink seems fine for a 200lb male, no? I mean, dumb but I would think he would have been able to handle it. Guess the energy drink did him in.
 

HeatBoost

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Energy drinks actually have labels saying "Do not drink more than X amount a day"

I wonder if he thought that the coffee and soda were a way to get around that?
 
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