两小时内过快摄入咖啡因 美国16岁少年猝死!

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

据一名验尸官裁定，美国南加州的一名健康青少年，由于快速饮用了多种含高深度咖啡因的饮料而不幸身亡。

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，戴维斯·阿伦·克里普在不到两个小时内喝了一杯麦当劳的拿铁咖啡、一杯山露威士忌酒和一杯能量饮料，随后在一所高中内死亡，

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

这位16岁少年死于“咖啡因含量过高导致心律失常”。此前他身体健康，并无心脏疾病。

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

沃茨称，这位少年体重90公斤，但并不是重度肥胖。

"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."

沃茨在接受路透社采访时表示：“这并不算是咖啡因过量。我们认为，并不是他体内的咖啡因的含量让他死亡的，而只是因为他是在那么短时间内摄入的，以及后面的那杯能量饮料，导致他心律失常。”

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

许多能量饮料含有约等同于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.

基于caffeineinformer网站的数据分析，戴维斯在两小时内摄入了470毫克的咖啡因。而一旦喝下去，你的身体系统需要数小时来分解它。

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.

一天喝上几杯咖啡或者其他一些含咖啡因的饮料是安全的，但是喝太多或是在太短时间内喝下去，这都是具有风险的。