Reopening the caffeine conversation - there are people who have died on caffeine, and some of them quite quickly. Does anyone think benzos would help with this?
Do people really die from too much caffeine? Here are the documented caffeine deaths from caffeine pills, caffeine powder, and energy drinks.
www.caffeineinformer.com
Personal trainer Tom Mansfield died after miscalculating the amount of caffeine powder in drink.
www.bbc.co.uk
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At toxic levels — especially when taken in a short time — caffeine can start to cause a number of unpleasant side effects: headache, nausea, vomiting, jitteriness, and irritability.
More severe effects of caffeine toxicity include abdominal pain, seizures, increased blood acid levels, irregular or fast heartbeat, and reduced blood flow to the heart — all of which increase your risk of dying.
Death by caffeine, though, is rare.
One
studyTrusted Source earlier this year identified 51 caffeine-related deaths.
Another
reviewTrusted Source from this year, published in Food and Chemical Toxicology, found that 14 of 26 caffeine overdose reports resulted in death.
"Many of those [caffeine-related deaths] were associated with exposures on the order or 10 g of caffeine or more, which is quite a bit of caffeine," study author Daniele Wikoff, PhD, a health sciences practice leader at ToxStrategies Inc., told Healthline.
One person who died ingested 51 g of caffeine.
"In many of these instances," said Wikoff, "it was consumption of a large amount in a very small amount of time, often from a source like a caffeine pill or the powdered form of caffeine, rather than energy drinks or coffee."
Even when people didn't die, they still experienced many of the severe symptoms of caffeine overdose.
"Pounding a bunch of energy drinks in a short period of time," said Temple, "even if it doesn't result in death, can certainly result in heart problems or in something that's going to require an emergency room visit."
And again, some people seem to be more affected by caffeine than others, even at higher doses. That makes it difficult to predict who will have a bad reaction.'
\The above is from :
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-you-can-die-from-caffeine#Can-caffeine-kill?
In a
2018 review of scientific journal articles, researchers identified 92 reported deaths from caffeine overdose. This review included all journals since online databases began. The researchers believe that around one-third of these deaths are likely to be suicide.
92 reported deaths...1/3 by suicide
