John Jackson died from an overdose of caffeine mints PO Britain received the tragic news - 40-year-old John Jackson died from an overdose of caffeine. Where he took so much! Just mints with caffeine.
Still particularly unpleasant poisoned by what seems a harmless candy, right?
Oh, you are our romantic ... (Fig. Izheny123.)
Everyone knows that caffeine - a psychostimulant that promotes concentration. At the same time, it causes the heart to beat faster and stronger, so in high concentrations can cause serious problems and even death. However, despite the widespread consumption of caffeine-containing drinks and pills overdose death is very rare.
In this case poor swallowed whole can lozenges, each containing 80 mg of caffeine - in a same portion of energy drink moderate force. In total, there were 12 pack of chocolates. Strange, because in fact this is not enough.
Web calculator Death by Caffeine, where you can calculate how much you have left to cups of coffee and chocolate bars, claims that the lethal dose for a 70 kg person is equal to 132 such candies (or - get ready, Khaletskiy - banks energotonik).
Apparently, the body should blame the hapless Jackson. Sensitivity to caffeine and its ability to break down all people are different. In a recent study revealed that fans of energy drinks sometimes show signs of poisoning (heartbeat, the demise of the heart muscle, etc.), even if not drunk more than fixed.
To get to the hospital, enough to absorb some three to eight cans in a row, though, according to the common scale, they had to get rid of symptoms of mild intoxication.
You can select multiple factors of increased susceptibility, and chief among them - heart disease. As Jackson accident, it is likely summed liver.
Caffeine (and other stimulants of tea and cola - theophylline and theobromine) splits in the liver specific enzyme (cytochrome P450 1A2, if you are interested in technical details). In the liver, different people different amounts of this enzyme, and the reasons for that are numerous: for example, the gene is missing or damaged.
By the way, do not give chocolate to dogs just because they have very little canine version of the enzyme, and they are more susceptible to the toxic effects of theobromine and caffeine.
Approximately 40% of Caucasians have a version of an enzyme which cleaves caffeine slowly. These people increased heart attacks and pressure correlated with the consumption of caffeine.
Poor Jackson suffered cirrhosis of the liver, which, among other things, significantly reduces the ability of the body to break down various substances, including caffeine. According opening in its body detected 155 mg of caffeine per liter of blood. If the same amount of caffeine swallowed a healthy person with all the necessary genes, the rate would not exceed 10-20 mg / l.
By the way, the packaging of candy warns about excessive caffeine content and recommends to use for a day not more than five pieces. There note that individuals sensitive to caffeine, this Confection better not touch at all. However, suffering from cirrhosis or hepatitis are not always sensitive to caffeine, and sometimes simply can not imagine that it is a warning to them.
Furthermore, the front side of the package is no mention that the caffeine contained in chocolates. There are no words on the manufacturer's website.
So Mr. Jackson may be to blame but that does not read the writing on the reverse side of the banks, but it cost him his life. A good lesson? ..
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Michael Savage - Ashton Kutcher Hospitalized Over Fruitarian Diet for Steve Jobs Biopic - 1/29/13
Michael Savage on January 29, 2013, Website: http://www.michaelsavage.com --- Story: "Ashton Kutcher was hospitalized days before shooting the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic after adopting the businessman's "fruitarian diet" to prepare for the role. The actor plays the lead in new movie "jOBS" and he did all he could to accurately portray the late Apple chief, even changing his eating plan to include just fruits, nuts and seeds.
However, Kutcher was left "doubled over in pain" after sticking to the diet, and sought medical advice in hospital.
He tells the Associated Press, "(The diet) can lead to some serious issues. I ended up in the hospital two days before we started shooting the movie.
"I was like doubled over in pain, and my pancreas levels were completely out of whack, which was completely terrifying, considering everything."
Jobs died of complications from pancreatic cancer in 2011.
