A woman has issued a stark warning after her 34-year-old husband was subjected to the horrifying consequences of his drinking Red Bull every day.
Meagan Shreve, who goes by the handle @ladyshreve on TikTok, shared a video about her spouse, Aaron Shreve, who has a caffeinated soda habit.
She recounted the night her husband experienced sudden pain in his chest and had to be rushed to the hospital where medics performed chest compressions to resuscitate him, resulting in broken ribs.
He was then forced to stay in the clinic for "five to six weeks" while cardiologists monitored his heart, but they had "no answers" as to why the seemingly healthy man had suffered the shock arrest.
Watch the video below:Medics eventually concluded that Aaron's sudden health decline was caused by "dehydration," and that "he was having too many energy drinks".
"This can be extremely, extremely dangerous...I watched this 105-pound woman drag my husband out of a chair and start chest compressions so hard that she broke his ribs," Meagan said in the clip.
Meagan revealed in the comments section that her partner was consuming "two to three" energy drinks per day, as well as coffee.
The TikToker then issued a warning for anyone who consumes energy drinks, saying if you're not going to give it up for yourself, "do it for the people in your life so they don't have to witness something like this".
"I saw everybody flood in. I was pushed against a wall not knowing what to do," the store manager, who is based in Colorado, added.
The terrifying ordeal began in January this year when Aaron woke his wife up in the middle of the night after "his heart started racing, and his hands and feet were going numb".
"He just didn't feel right," she continued. "I thought he was having a panic attack...he was like, I think you need to call 9-1-1, I think I need to go to the hospital," she said, adding that within "less than a minute" of seeing the hospital doctor, her husband had collapsed.
"All these alarms started going off...his heart stopped," she said. This led to hospital staff starting chest compressions in a bid to restart his heart and keep him alive
Energy drinks have become increasingly popular, especially among young adults.
In recent years, excessive consumption of caffeinated soda has been linked to an increase in many cardiovascular issues, including cardiac arrest, arrhythmias, heart attacks, and myocardial infarction.
Energy drinks contain moderate to high amounts of caffeine and sugar, along with various stimulating ingredients like guarana, taurine, carnitine, and ginseng, per Healthline.
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic examined the medical data of 144 patients, aged between 20 and 42, who had survived a cardiac arrest following emergency treatment.
Seven of them ingested an energy drink before the life-threatening event, with six needing electrical shock treatment and one needing manual resuscitation, as reported by The Sun.
Researchers discovered that other factors such as sleep deprivation, dehydration, dieting, smoking, and antibiotic medication, also contributed to the health decline.
"There's no discernible health benefit of consuming energy drinks," Dr. Ackerman said. "The absolute risk of danger is very low. The relative risk in the fragile heart is higher."
"So, for my patients with long QT syndrome or any genetic heart disease that is associated with sudden cardiac death, the appropriate dose of a highly caffeinated energy drink is 0. It's not worth the relative risk exposure when there's no upside to be gained from the product," she added.
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