{"id":50,"date":"2007-08-20T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/feilerfaster\/2007\/08\/kids-and-caffeine.html"},"modified":"2007-08-20T07:00:59","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T07:00:59","slug":"kids-and-caffeine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/feilerfaster\/2007\/08\/kids-and-caffeine.html","title":{"rendered":"Kids and Caffeine"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently got into a little back-and-forth with Mrs. Feiler Faster over whether it is OK to give children iced tea. Now comes word that a teenager in Britain actually overdosed<\/a> on coffee. Obviously this is an extreme example, but if I, as a grown man, feel the effects of a few M&M’s eaten at midday that night when I try to sleep, doesn’t caffeine affect children?<\/p>\n

A teenage waitress overdosed on caffeine after drinking 14 shots of espresso.
\nJasmine Willis, 17, could hardly breathe and was taken to hospital with a high temperature and heart palpitations.
\nShe had drunk almost three times the recommended daily amount of caffeine in just four hours.
\nMiss Willis, a student, was working part-time out in her father Gary’s recently-opened sandwich bar after sitting her GCSEs.
\nShe began her coffee binge last Wednesday after getting only five hours’ sleep the previous night.
\n“I decided to have a double espresso to perk me up,” she said. “It did the trick so I had one after another and they seemed to be working. I felt great – as if I could take on the world.”
\nBy noon she was feeling unwell and crying and laughing uncontrollably in front of bewildered customers. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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