Our busy life style and the high usage of caffeine in our daily basis can cause caffeine overdose without noticing it.
Caffeine occurs naturally in several plants. Caffeine can also be chemically synthesized. It is found in high doses in coffee, soft drinks like cola, some medicines, in tea and chocolate. In some things it is found in higher proportion that the others. Like tea and chocolates are not as high on caffeine as the other things mentioned above.
Since it is found in such everyday routines that we follow year after year, like drinking coffee, that many a times the cases of caffeine overdose are reported where the patient has overdosed without being aware of it.
1- Symptoms of Caffeine Overdose
Several symptoms can be noticed in a patient which are a result of caffeine overdose like;
- Spasms
- Insomnia
- Confusion
- Experiencing unconsciousness
- Hallucinations
- Convulsions
- Frequent urination
- Increased thirst
- Fever
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Diarrhea
- Experiencing difficulty breathing
- Irregular heartbeat
- and death
2- Caffeine Overdose Can also Affect Children
Overdose of caffeine in children, if not treated in time.
Children get overdosed on caffeine via the medicines they are being given.
Their symptoms include:
- Shock
- Irregular and deep rapid breathing and heartbeat
- Low BP
- Fever
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- and numbness in fingers
Again in children also caffeine overdose can be fatal.
3- How to Prevent From Caffeine Overdose
Trying to give up caffeine may result in withdrawal symptoms and cause headache, nausea, and depression at the beginning.
Other symptoms may include Irritability, restlessness, difficulty in concentrating, muscle stiffness, and hot flashes or chills.
It’s a better strategy to cut back on caffeine consumption slowly and space it out in several days instead of trying to give it up at once.
If you or someone you know has o be treated with for caffeine overdose.
Self-help is not a good idea.
Visiting the doctor and letting him find out the sources that resulted in over consumption of caffeine overdose will help the treatment to start faster and on the right track.
4- Potential Lawsuit Against Coca-Cola’s Calorie-Burning and Caffeine in Enviga
Coca-Cola and Nestle have teamed up to introduce a green-tea-flavored carbonated beverage called Enviga, which they claim has a negative-calorie effect and that one single can helps burn calories.
Enviga contains epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), an antioxidant found in green tea that has been shown, in some studies, to burn additional calories.
In a French study, when consuming 90 mg of EGCG three times a day, the resting metabolic rate of subjects was increased by 4 percent.
However, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) recently served notice on Coca-Cola and Nestle, saying their weight loss claims were untrue and that they would sue if the drinks continued to be marketed this way.
They stated that their evidence that Enviga burns calories is inconsistent and that they’ve violated state consumer protection laws.
A can of Enviga costs $1.29 to $1.49, so buying three cans a day would add up quickly. It’s also worth noting that each can contains five calories, so the calorie burning which Coca-Cola states as 60-100 calories per three cans would be minimal.
Ironically, the high fructose corn syrup
Sweetened drinks that Coca-Cola makes are responsible for adding a considerable number of calories to the amount that Americans drink today.
CSPI is also concerned about the amount of caffeine in Enviga just one can has the same amount of caffeine as three cans of Coke.
Excessive amounts of caffeine can caused an increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, even heart palpitations.
Until more is known about the calorie-burning effects of Enviga, stick to plain green tea that you can make at home it’s cheaper and has no calories.
5- Coffee Cuts Type II Diabetes Risk
For a long time, researchers have warned against too much caffeine, the main ingredient in coffee, claiming it can cause tremors and insomnia, as well as being highly addictive.
That doesn’t stop most Americans from starting the day with a cup of coffee. Now, a new study shows why drinking this beverage might be beneficial.
A new study that showed heavy drinkers of coffee – at least six cups a day – reduced their risk for type II diabetes. The risk for male coffee drinkers was reduced by 50 percent, and women was reduced by 30 percent.
Something in coffee called chlorogenic acid helps the body dispose of sugar in the blood.
Although this is not to suggest that everyone begin drinking coffee heavily, those who already do pick up an additional benefit.
If you can’t handle the caffeine, don’t despair even decaf drinkers showed a slightly lower risk.
It’s not well understood why caffeinated coffee is better than decaf. In fact, some previous findings suggested that caffeine could raise insulin levels and lead to an increase in blood sugar.
Perhaps the chlorogenic acid cancels out the effect we’ll know more as studies continue to be done on this phenomenon.
With type II diabetes cropping up more and more as a problem among overweight adults, now there is something else you can do for your health besides eat well and exercise.
Keep in mind the risk factors, including a waist size over 40 for men and 35 for women, and visit your doctor regularly.
6- Panic Disorder that Puts Your Life in Disarray
After suffering from a series of panic attacks some sufferers become agoraphobic and don’t venture out of their homes unless accompanied. In severe cases they may even become room- or bed-bound.
They feel that this gives them a measure of control over their surroundings. Women are more likely to suffer from this symptom than men.
Panic victims hope to lessen their condition by avoiding social contact or situations that might trigger an attack, but this is a vicious cycle as the less the victims interact with the outside world the worse their condition becomes.
Eventually it leads to a loss of job or pay unless they are able to work from home in a job that doesn’t involve much contact with others. This obviously affects their quality of life.
Anxiety disorders may be accompanied by depression chronic or otherwise because of what the sufferers are undergoing in their lives. The depression may follow the panic attack or trigger it. It can be harmful to a patient’s improvement.
These two illnesses will in fact feed each other as the more a patient is depressed the more he is likely to suffer anxiety and the less likely to have a hold of his own life leading to a depression over this loss of control.
Depression can also be dangerous since it can make a person uncaring about actual recovery so there will be no impetus to set treatment in motion.
Some sufferers take to alcohol or drugs as a way of coping with panic. They may also take stimulants such as coffee (caffeine) or amphetamines. Such substance abuse is detrimental to their eventual recovery.
Sometimes a victim is unable to identify the symptoms of a panic attack and goes from doctor to doctor seeking remedies.
Patients may take countless tests and different kinds of medication in order to alleviate their discomfort.
It may take several years for them to realize that this is psychological in origin and settle on psychiatric treatment.
So if you have these symptoms and are cleared of any heart or angina problems then go immediately to a therapist and start treatment. It will save you time and money in the long run.
Then you have to persevere with this treatment till it gives you results this doesn’t happen overnight.
The therapist/psychiatrist may put you on antidepressants and then take you through behavioral therapy to help you understand why you are getting these attacks.
Panic disorders really disrupt a victim’s life but there is hope for sufferers if they are of a mind to seek it.
7- Cancer and Coffee
There are many research been done for the relation between cancer and coffee.
Coffee seems to be a curb for many types of cancer.
Link between coffee consumption and cancer risk are being reviewed very regularly.
So the next time you make or order your latte you are doing yourself a favor in more ways than one.
Initially just the opposite was considered true that may be about the Cancer and Coffee even moderate consumption of coffee may prove to be cancerous.
But there is no scientific reason for believing that moderate consumption of coffee can increase the risk of developing cancer in any part of body.
According to the studies reviewed by researchers like Francesca Bravi, ScD of the Institution du Recherche Pharmacological;
“Mario Negri” in Milan, Italy, coffee drinkers as compare to those who do not drink coffee are 41% less likely to be diagnose with liver cancer.
For a daily cup of coffee people drink, the odds amount of their recommend amount of coffin.
Most of percentage of the above mention amount, the amount of cancer and coffee thoughts with liver cancer are dropped by 23%.
That is a comparison with those who do not ever drink coffee.
People who drinks more than a daily commander cups are 55% less likely to be diagnose with liver cancer than those who didn’t drink any coffee.
These research institutes do not think that this finding is a fluke at all about cancer and coffee.
They speculate that coffee helps because it stimulates liver enzymes and the likely result is that it cuts cirrhosis and liver cancer.
This research by some scientists and therefore studying it more closely and is still under discussion.
According to a research study by Japanese scientists having three cups of coffee or more, in the day may cut the risk of colon cancer.
That research result is among women by half as compare to women who are not coffee drinkers.
The combination of exercise and coffee has also been under observation for a while now.
According to the research permissible or moderate amounts of coffee and plenty of exercise could help.
The `Coffee & Exercise combo appears to destroy pre-cancerous skin cells damage by ultraviolet rays from the sun.
Coffee is one of the healthiest drinks after fresh water as compared to tinned juices and aerated, carbonated drinks.
But it has also been links to a higher risk of stroke, rheumatoid arthritis.
In some cases it works against keeping your cholesterol in check.
8- There is a Way and Time to Drink Coffee
Pregnant women and mothers who are breast feeding should not drink coffee.
It increases the risk of miscarriage, birth defects such as cleft palate and low birth weight.
Coffee can increase the period cramps in many cases.
Make sure you are drinking organic coffee. Avoid sugar and milk and unbleached filter.
Hot drinks are causing throat and tong cancer and that includes coffees as well.
