caffeine calculator

http://www.punkasspunk.com/caffeine.php

Death by Caffeine ^_^

[Bcahn836]

It would take 148.45 cans of Mountain Dew to kill you.

So drinking a 12 pack of MD in one night is fine. . .

[brandy836]

Brad- I think that you'll be fine.

So- is that the amount of soda that you have to drink before you explode or something? Or is it the weight of that much soda’s that would crush you?

I know it says that it is the caffeine that would kill you, but I doubt that caffeine would really kill a person.

[Mike Schroeder]

sure it will, your heart will just beat so fast it burns itself out (think fp motor.... only w/o the smell )

[Bcahn836]

I know i have drank more than 150 cans of md in the build season alone, so im guessing that you would have to slam 150 cans one after the other? You would get sick and or pass out long before you reach 150 cans.

[mechanicalbrain]

it says i need 210.76 sunkist to die im glad i was only at 210 when i saw this post!

[Mike]

The LD50 (average lethal dose) of caffeine is 192mg/kg. Anywhere between 1 and 4 grams of pure caffeine can kill a human, so your pretty safe when drinking caffeine drinks but when you start getting into caffeine pills and stuff to keep you awake... then it gets dangerous.

Originally Posted by Big Mike

sure it will, your heart will just beat so fast it burns itself out (think fp motor.... only w/o the smell )

Mike, I dont know about you, but I think the smell of decomposing flesh would be a lot worse of a smell.....


From expierence...6 cans of amp in a few hours is very bad idea.....although I did pull a 42 hr day with no problem.

[Enterprize]

Originally Posted by D.J. Fluck

Mike, I dont know about you, but I think the smell of decomposing flesh would be a lot worse of a smell.....

It wont start decomposing enough to be detectable by smell for a while

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

For everyone's basic reference, and since I have way way way too much time on my hands...here's a lethality scale, based on a 150 lb. person and ranked from least lethal to most lethal. The number indicated is the number of cans it would take to kill you

The letters in parenthesis afterwards are as follows:

(CC) = Coca-Cola Company
(D7) = Doctor Pepper & 7 UP
(M) = Mistic
(P) = Pepsi-Cola
(RC) = Royal Crown
(S) = Snapple

Least Lethal --> Most Lethal

• Decaffeinated Lemon Tea Snapple (S) 2268
• Tea Snapple (Ginseng, Sun, Diet Sun) (S) 1360.8
• Lipton Brisk (P) 1134
• Diet Nestea Cool (CC) 927.82
• Sweet Tea Snapple (S) 850.5
• Lemonade Iced Tea Snapple (S) 756
• Nestea Iced Tea (Lemon, Diet Lemon, Raspberry, Peach) (CC) 637.88
• Nestea Cool (CC) 637.88
• Mistic Tea (Lemon, Diet Lemon, Peach) 567
• Moon (Green Tea) Snapple (S) 567
• Lightning (Black Tea) Snapple (S) 486
• Barq's Root Beer (CC) 463.91
• Diet A&W Creme Soda (D7) 463.91
• IBC Cherry Cola (D7) 443.74
• Green Tea with Lemon (S) 425.25
• Nestea Iced Tea (Sweet, Unsweetened) (CC) 392.54
• A&W Creme Soda (D7) 351.93
• Tea Snapple (Lemon, Diet Lemon, Peach, Diet Peach, Mint, Raspberry, Diet Raspberry) (S) 324
• Coca-Cola (Cherry, Diet, Classic) (CC) 300.18
• Diet Pepsi-Cola (P) 283.5
• Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi (P) 283.5
• Pepsi-Cola (P) 268.58
• Wild Cherry Pepsi (P) 268.58
• Ruby Red Squirt (Regular, Diet) (D7) 261.69
• Mr. Pibb (Regular, Diet) (CC) 255.15
• Dr. Pepper (Regular, Diet) (D7) 248.93
• Sunkist Orange Soda (D7) 248.93
• Diet Sunkist Orange Soda (D7) 243
• Dr. Nehi (RC) 243
• Royal Crown Cola (Cherry, Regular) (RC) 236.25
• Diet Coke (CC) 226.8
• TAB (CC) 226.8
• Nehi Wild Red Soda (RC) 203.71
• Mellow Yellow (Regular, Diet) (CC) 200.12
• Surge (CC) 200.12
• KMX (CC) 192.57
• Mountain Dew (Regular, Diet) (P) 185.56
• Pepsi One (P) 185.56
• Kick (RC) 177.19
• Sun Drop Regular (D7) 162
• Sun Drop Cherry (D7) 159.47
• Diet Sun Drop (D7) 147.91
• RC Edge (RC) 145.38

Just to compare,
BAWLS Guarana has 80.0 mg of caffeine per 12 oz.
RC Edge has 70.2 mg of caffeine per 12 oz.
Red Bull has 115.5 mg of caffeine per 12 oz.
Those 3 facts taken from this source .

[wilshire]

LOL Tab more lethal then pepsi.

[Wetzel]

Some effects of caffeine : increased mental alertness, restlessness, nervousness, insomnia, dilation of the bronchioles, increased blood pressure, and increased renal function. Increased renal function means you pee more.

Mike, caffeine causes cardiac arrhythmias, which cause quivering. If the heart was able to coordinate the rhythm, it could beat at that speed and not explode.

At about 2mg/kg load, caffeine will induce nausea, vomiting, and muscle spasms.

Amp has 77mg/8oz. If DJ drank 6 cans, that would be 50.4oz of Amp, 3,881mg of caffeine. I don't think DJ weighs 887 lbs, so that would induce "BAD THINGS" in him, if ingested at the same time. The liver will have processed most of the caffeine out of the blood about 3 hours after ingestion.

Amp also happens to be my drink of choice to stay awake on the road. Works rather well. Should have used it when I pulled a 54 hour day before the VCU regional in 2002, then tried to drive the 2.5 hours there.


Wetzel

[Andrew Blair]

I did'nt think sunkist or root beer were cafffinated! Either I have been living a lie, or they take sugar into account. Wonder how much sugar it would take to kill someone?

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by Andrew Blair

I did'nt think sunkist or root beer were cafffinated! Either I have been living a lie, or they take sugar into account. Wonder how much sugar it would take to kill someone?

Sugar is not caffeine. They are VERY diffrent chemicals with very diffrent effects upon the body.

Wetzel

[sanddrag]

I'm glad to hear it would take 480 cans of Coca Cola Classic to kill me. So, I pretty much never have to worry because it would probably take me over 3 months to drink that many.

I do assume that the "cans to kill" number is referring to a relatively short period right? (like <48 hrs)

Also, I saw one thing where this guy drank like 4 gallons of water in like 1hr and he went into a coma. Even too much of the ingredient that is essential for life can easily end your life.

EDIT: Hrrm, according to the calculator Pepsi is more "lethal" than Coke. Interesting.