People should avoid taking much caffeine when it is being used as an over-the-counter drug and should consider how much caffeine is being taken in from coffee, tea, chocolate, soft drinks, and other foods that contain caffeine.
Caffeine increases your blood pressure and heart rate. It stimulates the cardiovascular system. If too much caffeine is present, it can stimulate the heart to the point of ventricular fibrillation, which can lead to rapid cardiac arrest and death. It is very difficult to overdose on caffeine using coffee, but caffeine pills are easy to overdose on and deaths have been reported from caffeine pills. They should be used with caution. One or two of the average caffeine pill should be enough for most people to get a coffee-like buzz.
No. Caffeine and epinephrine are both stimulants. Caffeine stimulates the Central Nervous System (CNS) while epinephrine (also called adrenaline) stimulates the sympathetic nervous system. These both increase heart rate.
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No, caffeine is especially bad for children, and should be avoided.
With caution.
They should be used with caution in patients with asthma, epilepsy, slow heart beat, hyperthyroidism, or gastric ulcers.
A pharmacist or physician should be consulted about which drugs can interact with caffeine.
For healthy adults at low dosages, no. Those who have heart problems, are pregnant, etc. should not take caffeine.
For healthy adults at low dosages, no. Those who have heart problems, are pregnant, etc. should not take caffeine.
It means that there may be a risk that should be considered before taking the medication.
Decaf can contain anywhere from less than 1% to about 3% of the caffeine of caffeinated coffee. This is because it is easy to get most of the caffeine out, but very tedious to get just about all of it out. This amount of caffeine should not have an effect on people, however.
There is about 5% of caffeine by weight of the leaf material in tea plants, so 8.23g of tea should have 0.4115g of caffeine.