Cripe had consumed three caffeine-laced drinks - a large soft drink, a latte and an energy drink- in a two- hour period before collapsing in his classroom at Spring Hill High School in South Carolina on April 26, Watts said. Cripe's autopsy showed no undiagnosed heart conditions and that he was healthy and had no conditions that could have triggered by the caffeine intake. Also, no other drugs or alcohol were found in the boy's system, Watts said. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that adolescents, age 12 to 18, should not consume more than 100 milligrammes of caffeine per day. An intake of caffeine greater than that has been associated with elevated blood pressure in adolescents, Sheri Zidenberg-Cherr, nutrition specialist at the University of California in the US was quoted as saying by 'CNN'.

Source: dna May 16, 2017 12:58 UTC