Energy Drinks Can be Dangerous For Teenagers
Consumption of energy drinks can be dangerous for children and adolescents, causing – especially for an excessive amount of caffeine and similar ingredients – palpitations, seizures, stroke and even sudden death, a team of researchers from the Faculty of Medicine University of Miami, who have published this work in ‘Pediatrics’.
The team of Dr. Steven Lipshultz, chief of pediatrics at the University of Miami, reviewed data from governments, groups, literature, reported cases and articles published in general media and business. In its report, note that some of these drinks have between four and five times more caffeine than soda and say that some children consume between four and five drinks daily.
This research also suggests that energy drinks usually contain ingredients that could increase the stimulating effects of caffeine or may have other side effects, which include nausea and diarrhea.
Therefore, they recommend that pediatricians ask, routinely, patients and their parents about the use of energy drinks and to warn them of their effects. “We discourage your daily intake,” says Lipshultz.
It has asked these products are regulated as tightly as snuff, alcohol or prescription drugs. “For most children, adolescents and young adults are not established what are safe levels of consumption,” he says.
Energy drinks appeared on the market for over 20 years now and its consumption has been the fastest growing in the drinks sector. It expects sales in 2011 reaching 9,000 million dollars (about 6.655 million euros), according to the report, which suggests that about one third of adolescents and young people consume these products regularly. However, further research is needed on long-term risks of its use and its impact on children, especially those with diseases that may increase these risks.
The American Association of Poison Control Centers in late 2010 adopted a series of codes to begin to account for energy drinks and overdose side effects throughout the country. From October to December there were a total of 677 cases. This year they have recorded 331 cases, mostly in children and adolescents, finding himself involved in a quarter of them children under six years, according to the poison control group.
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