How much caffine before you die?

[Vault101]

Ok I know it takes ALOT of caffine before you'd get really bad effects

and I know that its different for each person more or less, and how much caffine is in your standard cup pf coffee? about 120mg?

I think the daily limit is 250-400mg

 

[HassEsser]

I only drink energy drinks, favorably the blue Monster, so, however many milligrams of caffeine are in one of those. . . that's my dosage.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

A single cup of coffee (percolated or drip) has between 85 and 135 mg of caffeine. Negative effects (restlesness and tremors for example) set in when a person intakes a high dose (350+ mg). 10 grams is sufficient to cause death in a reasonable portion of healthy adults.

 

[Vault101]

anyone know how mcuh caffine is in your standard can of coke?

 

[b3nn3tt]

Quick Wikipedia search says that the LD50 (point at which half of subjects would die) is 150-200 milligrams per kilogram of body mass.

That's roughly 80-100 cups for an adult male. You'd have to drink that within five hours or so though, depending on metabolism, as that is roughly the half-life of caffeine

 

[Valagetti]

The question is... which organ will give out first? I reckon renal failure will be first.
I think you'd drown in a real life situation first, than overdose. Like that woman who got a 360 from drinking lots of water.

 

[Scabadus]

Quick Wikipedia search says that the LD50 (point at which half of subjects would die) is 150-200 milligrams per kilogram of body mass.

That's roughly 80-100 cups for an adult male. You'd have to drink that within five hours or so though, depending on metabolism, as that is roughly the half-life of caffeine

Heh I just pulled out a calculator for this; if your numbers about the lethal dose are correct then you'd have to drink just under 44 litres of a typical energy drink (32mg/100ml) to get that amount of caffine into you. Which would be impressive.

I'm not quite up to 44 liters yet, but I did once down 6 cans of Monster at once (long day biking on no breakfast, good times) without any particularly adverse effects. Slight experiance of time dilation, which was awsome, though that was likely just psychological. I was convinced that ammount of caffine had to do something.

 

[b3nn3tt]

Quick Wikipedia search says that the LD50 (point at which half of subjects would die) is 150-200 milligrams per kilogram of body mass.

That's roughly 80-100 cups for an adult male. You'd have to drink that within five hours or so though, depending on metabolism, as that is roughly the half-life of caffeine

Heh I just pulled out a calculator for this; if your numbers about the lethal dose are correct then you'd have to drink just under 44 litres of a typical energy drink (32mg/100ml) to get that amount of caffine into you. Which would be impressive.

I'm not quite up to 44 liters yet, but I did once down 6 cans of Monster at once (long day biking on no breakfast, good times) without any particularly adverse effects. Slight experiance of time dilation, which was awsome, though that was likely just psychological. I was convinced that ammount of caffine had to do something.

Well, exactly. You would need a hell of a lot of caffeine to die from an overdose. But then again, it's considerably easier to drink enough to get withdrawal symptoms and caffeine jitters

I dunno, I think that there would be some kind of effect from drinking that much in one go. Don't know if it would take the form of time dilation, but the effects would probably be cognitive to some extent, so it may well have been a genuine reaction