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Man Who Drank 7 Liters Of Soda Daily For A Decade Suffers Severe Health Consequences
A doctor has warned that soda should only be used “reasonably and sparingly” after a man collapsed due to excessive consumption, which had disastrous health implications.
A patient known as BA drank seven litres of soda daily for “at least” ten years, according to the YouTube channel Chubbyemu, which chronicles medical incidents to increase awareness.
The 48-year-old father patient was brought to the emergency department “with sudden onset weakness.”
BA “was a dad living a normal life,” the doctor added, but at the age of 30, he took a new job where his company had “free, unlimited soda for employees to drink.”
Get ready to see those complimentary sodas your workplace provides in a slightly different light.
According to the video, BA gradually started drinking more and more Coke until it turned into an addiction, which had unsettling effects on his body.
‘The more he drank the thirstier he got’
According to reports, BA would “wake up thirsty” and go for “his normal morning soda” right away.
“But the more he drank, the thirstier he got. In the bathroom, for the 10th time in two hours.”
The father developed “short of breath,” stomach ache, and “brain fog,” which ultimately led to his “stuttering and slurring his words.”
And in the end, BA was discovered comatose at his desk and ended up in the hospital.
Negative health effects of drinking seven litres of soda a day for ten years
Due to the sweet quality of the drink, BA’s blood sugar levels had been “sky high for at least the last three months,” causing him to enter a “diabetic coma.”
According to reports, BA also had elevated blood pressure and cholesterol.
But as BA had not identified his soda habit as a possible contributing factor, he didn’t bring it up to the physicians and was only advised to start exercising and eating a healthier diet.
Although he did get used to drinking sodas with no added sugar half the time, he went out and bought multipacks for himself after quitting his work.
And one day, after he struggled to rise up one morning and started urinating a lot again, he collapsed.
This time, the medical team identified ‘hypokalaemia’ in addition to BA’s history of diabetes, high blood pressure, and cholesterol, as well as his ‘deep physical weakness’.
‘Life-threatening’ consequences
BA had ‘life-threateningly low’ potassium, which is a condition known as hypokalaemia.
Later, it was found that BA’s muscles were “damaged” and “spilling their contents out,” a condition known as “rhabdomyolysis,” and that his kidneys were also “shutting down.”
Doctors put BA on intravenous fluids, but he experienced a “massive headache” and parched mouth. He called his wife to ask her to fetch him soda to satiate his thirst.
Although his dry mouth and headache subsided, his test results the following day revealed that he still had hypokalaemia and had produced 15.1 litres of urine, even though he had only received 3.78 litres via IV.
The potassium the doctors were trying to give him was being wasted by his kidneys and water running straight through him. But how could BA be helped by doctors?
After observing BA receiving sodas from his wife, a student allegedly conducted some research and discovered that the soda’s sweetener and caffeine “explained everything happening to BA.”
Why excess sugar and caffeine consumption can be so dangerous
“In the kidneys, huge excess sugar from drinking one to two gallons of soda every day for 10 years can make it harder to absorb water because the water will want to stay with the sugar,” says the physician.
The other issue is caffeine, which “blocks inhibition” and prevents a bodily chemical from aiding in blood vessel dilatation, which increases blood flow to the heart and brain and encourages sleep.
By reabsorbing salt, the molecule also aids the kidneys in retaining water. As a result, the caffeine in the sodas kept the sodium in the urine, which caused BA to lose a significant amount of fluid.
BA’s kidneys shut down and his muscles weakened as a result of the muscular proteins floating around in his blood from too much pee.
What happened to BA?
Fortunately, he eventually received assistance from medics.
After being instructed to stop drinking soda, BA’s blood potassium levels began to return to normal, his renal function improved, and his muscle weakness disappeared—“some baseline function achieved again.”
The doctor cautions that diet Coke still contains caffeine. And sugar-free, caffeine-free diet sodas? They can still provide a number of concerns, though.
The doctor adds, “So take the study results with what you will. Type 2 diabetes and all its comorbidities like heart problems and nerve damage. Hypokalemia and all its consequences and kidney stones are what we’re thinking of when we’re speaking of excess chronic soda ingestion.”
Therefore, “consume sensibly and sparingly,” but “don’t put it in your body if you don’t need to.”
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