兩小時內過快攝入咖啡因 美國16歲少年猝死!

A healthy teenager in the US state of South Carolina died from drinking several highly-caffeinated drinks too quickly, a coroner has ruled.

據一名驗屍官裁定，美國南加州的一名健康青少年，由於快速飲用了多種含高深度咖啡因的飲料而不幸身亡。

Davis Allen Cripe collapsed at a high school in April after drinking a McDonald's latte, a large Mountain Dew soft drink and an energy drink in just under two hours, Gary Watts said.

加里·沃茨指出，今年4月，戴維斯·阿倫·克里普在不到兩個小時內喝了一杯麥當勞的拿鐵咖啡、一杯山露威士忌酒和一杯能量飲料，隨後在一所高中內死亡，

The 16-year-old died from a "caffeine-induced cardiac event causing a probable arrhythmia". He had no pre-existing heart condition.

這位16歲少年死於“咖啡因含量過高導致心律失常”。此前他身體健康，並無心臟疾病。

The teenager weighed 90kg but would not have been considered morbidly obese, Mr Watts said.

沃茨稱，這位少年體重90公斤，但並不是重度肥胖。

"This is not a caffeine overdose," Mr Watts told Reuters news agency. "We're not saying that it was the total amount of caffeine in the system, it was just the way that it was ingested over that short period of time, and the chugging of the energy drink at the end was what the issue was with the cardiac arrhythmia."

沃茨在接受路透社採訪時表示：“這並不算是咖啡因過量。我們認爲，並不是他體內的咖啡因的含量讓他死亡的，而只是因爲他是在那麼短時間內攝入的，以及後面的那杯能量飲料，導致他心律失常。”

Most energy drinks contain a caffeine equivalent of three cups of coffee and as much as 14 teaspoons of sugar.

許多能量飲料含有約等同於三杯咖啡量的咖啡因以及14茶匙的糖。

Davis may have consumed about 470mg of caffeine in just under two hours, based on statistics from the website . And once you've drunk it, it will take hours to clear it from your system.

基於caffeineinformer網站的數據分析，戴維斯在兩小時內攝入了470毫克的咖啡因。而一旦喝下去，你的身體系統需要數小時來分解它。

Having a few cups of coffee or other caffeinated drinks a day is considered perfectly safe. But drinking too much or lots in a short space of time is risky.

一天喝上幾杯咖啡或者其他一些含咖啡因的飲料是安全的，但是喝太多或是在太短時間內喝下去，這都是具有風險的。