Comments on: Overdosing on Red Bull

By: suree

suree — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:08:15 +0000

Had a family member die of a stroke last week. She was working alot trying to get her new boutique open in time. She was drinking Redbull to help her get through the fatigue. No other health problems, not overweight, not a smoker, and not on birth control (which has a risk of stroke in woman over 35). She was 39 years old and they feel like the drink may have contributed to the stroke. I can tell you that even the thought that it may have risk of causing ANY health problems makes me never want to open the first can. It's not worth the potential health effects...

By: sickb*stard

sickb*stard — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:50:47 +0000

I call BS, I used to work in a warehouse, running my butt off to make sure trucks got loaded all day and once a week I would down nine to ten redbulls in the span of about five minutes. I would experience a gigantic energy rush, start shaking a little bit and had to pee like a horse every five minutes, but aside from that (and some eye jitters) I was fine.

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:00:58 +0000

Kudos to the Red Bull folks (and their imitators) for figuring out a way to charge gobs extra for soda.

By: Jason E

Jason E — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:30:41 +0000

I like to drink Vodka + Redbull when I'm at a bar. If you go see a band and get there around 9pm... it's easy to drink 5 to 8 drinks by 3am.

Do it all the time... never felt any heart flutter at all. Perhaps the alcohol counters the caffine affect.

By: aj

aj — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:32:26 +0000

I could've sworn that they already had a warning on the can. 2 per day max if memory serves.
Now he is calling for an overhaul to the warnings?? What good would that do if he didn't read the original.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:00:55 +0000

yeah L, angel wings

By: techie

techie — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:37:40 +0000

a new york city stagehand had 7 redbulls within a similar time frame and suffered a stroke during a load in.

By: Thebes

Thebes — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:29:57 +0000

I rather like Red Bull. But only a Darwin Award seeking moron would drink eight of them in a day.

By: L

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:50:50 +0000

That would be an awfully embarrassing thing to have in your obituary. "John passed away suddenly after overdosing on Red Bull."

I guess it really would give you wings...

By: Reed E

Reed E — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:35:25 +0000

The fellow consumed: 8 cans x 80mg = 640 mg

Note that 8oz Coffee (drip) has 115-175mg

Which means the fellow had the equivalent of 3-6 cups of coffee over a five hour period.

Some overdose!

By: Tempscire

Tempscire — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:09:21 +0000

Pffft. Good job, caffeine-overdosing people, for not paying attention to the fluff news pieces about the dangers of caffeine that have been around for years.

By: L.B. Jeffries

L.B. Jeffries — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:28:07 +0000

Red Bull...it gives you cardiac arrest!

By: Conor

Conor — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:53:22 +0000

Doesn't surprise me. This stuff tastes like pure crap.