A valet conk out the sidereal day before his 22nd birthday after ingesting too much caffeine from a appurtenance , his family has said .
Lachlan Foote , from New South Wales , Australia , went out on New Year ’s Eve 2018 . He had a few beer with friends – an autopsy would later discover he had n’t drink much at all – before returning home to sleep . Before pass to layer , he made himself a protein handclasp in an attempt to stave off a hangover .
" I suppose my protein pulverization has gone off . Just made an anti - hangover / physical exercise shiver and it tasted amazing , " he wrote to his friends , harmonize to his founder . “ Anyway … dark cub . Cya in the morning . ”
Lachlan did not awaken up the next morning . His body was found the next day by his parent on New Year ’s Day . After an autopsy , the family last has some answers as to why Lachlan died .
" While I do n’t wish to keep elicit the subject of Lachlan ’s death on Facebook , I ’m posting this because there ’s a possibility it might save someone ’s living , " Lachlan ’s founding father Nigelwrote on Facebook on Sunday .
" Dawn and I have finally receive the Coroner ’s findings regarding Lachlan – he died of ‘ caffeine toxicity ’ ( not from a crafty clutch of protein powder as we had first thought ) .
" It turns out that Lachlan came home after celebrate New Year ’s Eve with his booster and made a protein shake , innocently tally too much Pure Caffeine Powder – a teaspoonful is deadly ( the equivalent of 25 - 50 coffees ) . "
The home believes that Lachlan receive the caffein powder from a colleague or acquaintance , as searches by the family and police revealed no purchase of the gunpowder by Lachlan himself .
" It ’s very likely that Lachlan never got to read the monition label on the bundle and was incognizant of its potency . And the fact that he save the caffeine pulverisation in our kitchen pantry ( where one of us might have mistaken it for flour or lettuce ) prove the breaker point – Lachlan would never have kept it there had he know it was a threat to the family . He was a bright , inventive vernal man . "
Milder caffein overdoses can result in anything from disorientation to breakdown of skeletal muscle tissue paper , hallucinations , or mania . bigger overdoses – usually affiliate with absorb too much caffeine from supplements – can leave in dying . The dose required for this to occur is around the equivalent of 17 - 100 cups of burnt umber for a 70 - kilogram ( 150 - Cypriot pound ) grownup .
In 2018 doctorsreported the caseof a 32 - yr - old woman who look for infirmary treatment after circumstantially ingesting 5,000 milligrams of caffein in a pre - workout supplement . Having made it to the parking brake room within half an time of day of the overdose , she was treated with endovenous propranolol and survived the trial by ordeal , being put down five days afterwards .
" I ’m not going to go on a crusade about caffeine pulverisation , " Nigel ended his post . " But I do want to warn Lachlan ’s friends and the Blue Mountains community … PLEASE SHARE . "
