A man who accidentally ingests '200 cups of caffeine' dies



Caffeine contained in coffee and green tea is known to have a wakefulness effect, and is also used as an ingredient in energy drinks. However, it has been reported that a man who is a personal trainer living in the United Kingdom made a weighing error when making a drink containing caffeine powder and died when he ingested '200 cups of caffeine' at once. rice field.

Personal trainer Thomas Mansfield died after overdosing on caffeine powder drink, inquest hears | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10565493/Personal-trainer-Thomas-Mansfield-died-overdosing-caffeine-powder-drink-inquest-hears.html

Man dies after consuming drink equivalent to 200 cups of coffee | Live Science
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Caffeine is known to have wakefulness, reduce fatigue, and improve exercise performance , and is also used as a supplement to be taken immediately before muscle training . Therefore, some people who work on muscle training get their own caffeine powder and mix it with drinks.

A man named Thomas Mansfield, who lived in North Wales , England, worked as a personal trainer while working as a security guard. On January 5, 2021, Mansfield made his own caffeinated drink using caffeine powder that he had just purchased from a supplement company, but after drinking this drink, Mansfield's mouth was bubbling. , He said he started to suffer by holding his chest on the sofa.

His wife, Susanne Mansfield, saw her suffering husband, first rushed out of the house to ask her neighbors for help, and then called an ambulance. Emergency personnel who arrived within minutes testified that Mansfield's heart was pulsing with a 'terrible abnormal' rhythm, and although he did his best by using a defibrillator, he was urgently transported to the hospital. At that time, he was in a state of cardiac arrest, and his death was confirmed around 16:00 on the 5th.



Postmortem examinations detected an unusual concentration of caffeine at 392 mg per liter in Mansfield's blood, revealing that the cause of death was caffeine poisoning . Generally, it seems that the blood caffeine concentration after drinking a cup of coffee is 2 to 4 mg per liter, and the blood caffeine concentration of 392 mg per liter is a calculation equivalent to '200 cups of coffee'. .. The lethal dose of caffeine is said to be 78 mg per liter in blood, which means that Mr. Mansfield was ingesting almost five times the lethal dose of caffeine.

It is believed that the cause of Mansfield's ingestion of an abnormal amount of caffeine is a weighing error. The recommended intake of caffeine powder was 60 to 300 mg at a time, but the starting weight of the digital scale that Mr. Mansfield had was 2 g. According to investigators, Mansfield may have put up to 5g of caffeine powder in his drink. The brand that sold the caffeine powder did not violate the regulations at that time, but after this incident, it said that it made improvements such as attaching a measuring spoon and A4 instructions to the product.

In addition, since there were two children between Mr. Mansfield and Mr. Sae Yamamoto, it is reported that Mr. Sae Yamamoto raised funds to support his family. 'He was all about my life. You won't be able to get over it. Tom, you were my life,' Sae Yamamoto wrote on social media.

In recent years, it has been reported that the number of young people who are transported due to caffeine addiction is increasing rapidly due to the spread of caffeine -containing tablets that sing awakening action. It has also been reported that a man who continued for years was hospitalized for severe heart failure and renal failure.

A man who grabbed 'Enadori' every day for two years was brought to the intensive care unit, and the man was 'traumatic' --GIGAZINE



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