Upcoming Health Hazard Alert: Hide Your Coffee, Girl Overdoses on Espresso!


Alert, Alert!! Hide your grinders, pack up those coffee makers and throw away those grounds. Coffee may be hazardous to your health!

Is anybody willing to take bets on how long it will take before the food intake police call on the coffee and refreshment industry to place warning labels on products containing caffeine?

A teenager was taken to hospital after overdosing on espresso coffee.

Jasmine Willis, 17, developed a fever and began hyperventilating after drinking seven double espressos while working at her family's sandwich shop.

The student, of Stanley, County Durham, was taken to the University Hospital of North Durham, where doctors confirmed she had overdosed on caffeine.

She has since made a full recovery and is now warning others about the dangers of excessive coffee drinking. (src. BBC News)

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Most people would classify this under the category of most insignificant news item of the day, yet someone at the BBC thought it was a worthy enough cause to place on their international news site. It currently holds the coveted top position on the BBC's most e-mailed list.

What would a coffee awareness article be without a blow by blow account of the harrowing experience?

Ms Willis, who had thought the coffees were single measures, said the effects were so severe that she began laughing and crying for no reason while serving customers at the shop.

She developed a fever and began struggling to breathe after being sent home by her father.

"My nerves were all over the place.

"I was drenched. I was burning up and hyperventilating.

"I was having palpitations, my heart was beating so fast and I thought I was going into shock.

"I did not realise this could happen to you and I only hope other people learn from my mistake."

The teenager, who was allowed home after a few hours of observation, suffered side effects for days afterwards and now says she cannot stand the sight of coffee.

Suffered side effects for days afterward? Can no longer stand the sight of coffee? This sounds like my reaction every time the mainstream media pumps out silly articles like the one referenced above. Maybe we can get a warning label for that.

 

Terry Trippany is the editor at Webloggin. All emphasis in the article is mine.

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We should ban water, people

We should ban water, people have died from overdosing on water!

The more and more we have the nanny state telling people what to eat and such the more libertarian I become.

Chlorinate the gene pool

17 and she had 7 double espressos. Somebody please chlorinate this gene pool.

"Not for fame or reward, not for place or rank, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity. But in simple obedience to duty." - From the barracks at Ft. Benning

The horror!  The answer to

The horror!  The answer to this problem is more government regulation and higher taxes on coffee and rich people.  This would have never happened if we weren’t in Iraq.

 

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With Democrat revisionist history and liberals guaranteeing the future (global warming, nuclear destruction, etc.) only the future is certain; the past is always changing.

Democrat Emergency Response System

Ok we've recognized a deadly killer in America. Initiate the Concerned Citizens Crying-out Protocol.

Step 1: Pin it on Bush administration.

Step 2: Commission a study that is funded by caring people like the Heinz Foundation that works from presuppositions and disreguards opposing evidence as anomolous.

Step 3: Find a victim crippled by said catastrophe to be the spokesman of the issue. Then detractors will be afraid to oppose for fear of looking like a "meanie"

Step 4: Give complicit members of media talking points to gin up support of anti-"whatever" movement.

Step 5: Promise huge subsidies through lawsuits to "save" victims.

Step 6: Once elected into power, tax masses into poverty so they can not function without us.

You can't save the Earth unless You're willing to make other people sacrifice. Dogbert the Green Consultant summing up the elite left.

What exactly is wrong with

What exactly is wrong with letting a person suffer the outfall of their own stupidity?  Why do we have to continually save people from themselves (meaning people old enough to do their own thinking)?

I can imagine several scenarios in which we should not discourage people from joining the ranks of "Darwin Awards" hopefulls.

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"  - Shakespeare

It's not to save the expresso bean nut from herself

It's not to save the expresso bean nut from herself, it's to have a good laugh at another idiot, while pretending to be a concerned caring reporter and newsgeeker out to "save everyone else from being stupid".

Oh gosh don't try it, this "student" did... we have to protect our future human intellectual workforce power on all campuses....or in all high schools...

This is real proof to them. LOL

(whatever, they're psychos, it's probably all about them being themselves, which is ALWAYS a smart aleck jerko with a smart yap - so in this case it's their "haha what an idiot" laugh story- probably). Maybe they want to go after the parents who own the sandwhich coffee shop because it's not "organic"... Who knows with the kookball demmolibs.

 It's hard for these retards that write these things to imagine that any adult let alone a 24/7/365 socially educated pop culture drug info expert by that age "little girl" could possibly have an inkling that guzzling mass quantities like a CONEHEAD might have more of an effect than otherwise, or that her parent(s) who run the place told her to go easy or that she snuck most of her hyper cocktail go juice when pappa wasn't looking.

Maybe they're jealous she got care at a hospital and was released because when they did their "crank" they had to ride out their "palpitations" at home, since the evil right wing outlawed their dope.

(liberals emotional responses cause their palpitations so when they're not sooo, sooo - upset - about something and they get their "palpitations"...)

 They just cant imagine people everywhere having any common sense, because they're surrounded by their own kind, insanely kookballed libbo democratic types who believe in gawd knows what and spew insanities all day long.

 Whatever.

 We're all so glad teenie espresso queenie learned her lesson and can't stand the sight of it anymore. I'm sure the lib will follow up and call a few months from now to see how her treatment plan is going and if she relapsed on bean or not, and if so we'll be sure to be treated again, with warning label suggestions and 677 more articles on coffee and caffiene and it's effects and dangers and blah blah blah blah blah blah

 Yes, perhaps they can make nicotine like regulations for coffee and the cans it's goes in. Gosh they're so far behind on that. ( their own latte crowd would be "offended").

 

 

Well, Helen, in our

Well, Helen, in our over-protected, Nanny-state society, the solution is to take coffee out of the supermarket aisles. You would have to take a tag, like you do now for Sudafed, and bring it to the customer service counter, where you would have to sign for a pound of coffee, be limited to how many pounds you could buy, and sign a statement saying you are aware of the effects of caffeine.

This is all very reasonable, since according to our "caretakers" caffeine is considered a drug.

crack is wack

And in other news, Mayor Bloomberg has raided Maxwell house and Folgers, declaring "the days are numbered for Big Coffee."

 

 

No. They're too close to

No. They're too close to water. They'll raid someone like Luzianne or Community. Or maybe the makers of Jolt and Mountain Dew

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

Was there something going

Was there something going on before all that coffee? What was the treatment? Breathing in a paper bag? But. Sounds as much like a panic attack. Though I'm sure 7 double cups of expresso played it's part.  You can OD on coffee, but may take more.

We need the media to protect us from life.

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

Goverment needs to seize te ma & pa business to "save" daughter.

 Abuse for sure, the goverment knows best, another nail in the coffin, for family run businesses. the abuse, abuse,

You can buy coffee here ,but you got to drink it 25 feet from the front door, go now, get  out of here,  just drink it  AWAY FROM HERE.

Entitlement over infrastructure every SINGLE time.

 

Monday ... Historically for the MSM a slow news day

 Coffee ... Another Victim of Liberal Junk Science

Every six or so months, I hear coffee go-o-o-o-d ... or ... coffee ba-a-a-d.

The gal has probably come close to O.D.ing on alcohol on any given weekend while out partying with friends ...

Good Lord! All this hoo-ha

Good Lord! All this hoo-ha from voluntarily drinking too many esspressos! I have a couple of Cuban buddies that drink esspresso throughout the day like it's water! And they sleep good, too. If I had know this chick I would have had her pop a couple of B12 tabs and then provided her with a nice tall Bloody Mary with an extra serving of Stoli vodka. That would have definitely brought her back down to earth before the paramedics arrived.

Oooops! She's only 17 so

Oooops! She's only 17 so they'd pat me on my back for saving her a trip to emergency then haul my butt into jail for serving a minor.

Between the caffiene lines

This little tidbit means Jasmine passed the required social healthcare blood draw drug tests:

"The student, of Stanley, County Durham, was taken to the University Hospital of North Durham, where doctors confirmed she had overdosed on caffeine. "

Or maybe it means to them, the experts told the libs the truth again... their second for story "verification".

 $4,586.72 UK for that wonderful caring treatment when 2 bucks of vitamins and a 50 cent shot of whiskey is outlawed. Smart system.

 

"...where doctors confirmed

"...where doctors confirmed she had overdosed on caffeine. "

So what is the "acceptable" blood level for caffeine?

So what is the "acceptable" blood level for caffeine?

For me it's 2 notches above "jittery" but just below "jumpy".

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

Survival of the fittest. If

Survival of the fittest. If this girl is stupid enough to drink that many double espresso's and if her body is so weak it can't handle it...well, you know where this is going.

OMG! Coffee is bad

OMG!

Coffee is bad again...

Who knew?

Thanks Nanny State.

Personal responsibility and common sense....

Zilch!

Oh no.....

First we had the woman who died from drinking too much water too quickly. Now we have this twit, er uh young woman who "overdoses" after only 7 double esspresos. It looks like drinking any liquid at all is very dangerous indeed!

I guess it's a good thing that she didn't have access to a "Super Grande Double Esspresso Mocha Latte Cappucino"!

 

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic

Yep, pretty soon you'll

Yep, pretty soon you'll have to hide your coffee in the cocaine when coming across the border. 

"A mind is a terrible thing." - A comic I forgot the name of.

ahusser... I am dying

ahusser...

I am dying with laughter here...that was rich.

That was a good one....just sputtered coffee all over my screen ect!

Time for a cold one....

Thanks sincerely for the laughter though.

Bigtimer. My pleasure.  I

Bigtimer. My pleasure.  I think it would make a good comedy skit and I think I will join you in getting a cold one.

"A mind is a terrible thing." - A comic I forgot the name of.

Cheers friend!

Cheers friend!

They really gloss over the

They really gloss over the fact that this is a family-owned business. She's serving the customers; most likely coffee as well as yummy sandwiches yet she has no idea that she's drinking double shot espressos!? What??? There's a lot wrong with this picture...

Coffee Cup OR Cup of death?

Not only excessive use of coffee is injurious to health but the very paper coffee cups can lead to bladder and kidney failure when people ingest toxic amounts of the adhesive on the seam of the cup, which dissolves when a hot liquid is poured inside. This adhesive contains melamine, a dangerous chemical primarily used to make plastic and fertilizer.

As you may know, melamine recently made media headlines when it poisoned nearly 1,000 domestic animals in the United States. The chemical was discovered in several pet foods imported from China and caused pain to families and pets across the country.

This type of chemical poisoning has been on some consumers' minds for years; in fact, there was even an episode of Seinfeld in which George's fiancee died of glue poisoning after licking one too many wedding invitations! However, the growing concern has not registered with coffee cup manufacturers, who continue to produce products that may harm the public.

Obviously, it is up to each individual to protect themselves and their family from melamine poisoning. Please consider bringing your own cup or thermos to your local coffee shop, and warn everyone you know about the dangers of paper coffee cups.