Massive caffeine ingestion resulting in death.

摘要: Caffeine has long been recognized as an addictive substance with numerous toxic effects. Death due to caffeine overdose is rare, in part its marked gastric irritation resulting spontaneous emesis. can be found food, beverages, analgesics, and over-the-counter weight loss products. We report a fatality from the ingestion of mail order diet pills containing their only active ingredient. A 22-year-old female arrived emergency department cardiac arrest after ingesting these pills. Resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful. serum toxicology screen revealed presence level 1,560 micrograms/ml (lethal greater than 100 micrograms/ml). To our knowledge this highest reported fatal level. No other drugs identified on screen. Based absence pathology autopsy high level, death was attributed acute toxicity. This case illustrates that deaths caffeine, although continue occur.