Officials and medical experts have urged parents to ban their children from consuming energy drinks, following the tragic death of a teenager in Muharraq.
Ibrahim Al Mohammed died last week at the age of 16 after drinking a couple of cans while gaming with friends.
His heartbroken parents told our sister paper Akhbar Al Khaleej that a forensic medical report revealed that the schoolboy had suffered acute circulatory collapse, a condition where there is an interruption of cardiac activity, after consuming the drink.
Caution is advised, study experts suggest. “The heart reacts to the high caffeine and other chemicals,” explained its lead investigator, Michael J Ackerman. “It’s the magnitude and the combination of the chemicals in energy drinks that can catch the vulnerable heart off guard and send it into a potentially lethal heart rhythm that leads to sudden cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death.”
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