▲ A male college student drank 7.6 liters of coffee to refresh himself after staying up late to prepare for an exam. His heart stopped 6 times and his muscles dissolved within 3 hours.
Drinking coffee can be refreshing, but don’t overdo it. A 21-year-old male college student in a foreign country drank 7.6 liters of coffee within 3 hours because he wanted to refresh himself while studying for the exam. As a result, his heart stopped six times and his muscles dissolved, causing acute kidney injury.
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Chinese-American doctor Bernard Hsu (Chubbyemu) in hisyoutube videoShare a case. The patient is a 21-year-old male college student who usually has the habit of drinking coffee. One day, he stayed up late to prepare for the exam. In order to refresh himself, he first brewed a pot of coffee and drank it in one gulp, feeling full of energy immediately. But soon, the refreshing effect of coffee wore off, so he made another pot of coffee and drank it. Just going back and forth several times like this, the patient drank 7.6 liters of coffee within 3 hours.
Epilepsy, cardiac arrest 6 times
However, after drinking a large amount of coffee, not only did the patient not feel the refreshing effect, but he continued to sweat, his heart beat faster, and he experienced hand tremors, chest tightness, and confusion. Then, the patient suddenly felt calf pain, and when he went to the toilet, he found that the urine was the same color as coffee. Finally, he chose to lie down and rest, but then had a seizure and lost consciousness. After the patient’s mother found out, he was sent to the hospital immediately. At this time, the patient’s muscles continued to twitch, and his body temperature increased abnormally. After arriving at the hospital, the patient briefly regained consciousness, but soon fell into a coma, and even had as many as 6 heartbeats. Although the medical staff kept rescuing him, the doctor also said that the patient’s heart could not beat normally, but was shaking abnormally, and he lost the function of pumping blood, and the blood could not be supplied to the brain.
In addition, the doctor also pointed out that the patient’s urine was coffee-colored, which did not reflect that the coffee was directly excreted, but the dissolved muscles—the muscles were dissolving the protein produced, making the urine brown; and the patient had felt calf pain, also proved this statement. Fortunately, the doctor finally suppressed the patient’s recurrence of epilepsy with medication and stabilized his heart activity; he also supplemented blood potassium to help the patient’s muscles relax and avoid further kidney damage. The patient recovered and was discharged after a period of recuperation.
Too much caffeine can seriously affect your health
The doctor explained the condition of the male patient. Since caffeine in coffee is a natural stimulant, proper intake can help refresh you, but excessive intake can be harmful to your health. Excessive intake of caffeine causes the brain to become overactive after the blood flows to the brain, causing epileptic seizures, and the adrenal glands are overactive, releasing too much adrenaline, causing the heart to vibrate abnormally and affecting the blood supply to the brain. In addition, the involuntary muscle contraction caused by epilepsy causes the patient to generate high body temperature, and also causes the muscle protein to dissolve and be excreted in the urine. A large amount of protein is filtered by the kidneys, which can damage kidney function and cause acute kidney injury.
Therefore, the doctor warns against taking a lot of caffeine indiscriminately, which will not only fail to refresh you, but also seriously damage your health. Adults are recommended to consume up to 400 mg of caffeine per day, which is about 4 medium cups of coffee.
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