A Pennsylvania teenager had to be resuscitated in March when he went into cardiac arrest after he drank Panera Breads highly caffeinated Charged Lemonade, a lawsuit says.
The suit, obtained first by NBC News, was filed Monday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania just under two weeks after Panera announced it was discontinuing the controversial beverage. It is at least the fourth lawsuit filed against the bakery-cafe chain over the drink, which previous suits have blamed for two deaths and a womans permanent health problems.
Panera has denied wrongdoing in legal documents. It did not immediately respond to questions about Mondays lawsuit.
The complaint alleges that Luke Adams, 18, had no known health issues when he bought a chicken sandwich and a large Charged Lemonade on March 9 in his hometown, Monroeville. That evening, Adams went to a movie theater with friends. While they were watching the film, a friend heard Adams making unusual sounds, the suit says. The friend then realized Adams had become unresponsive.
Two nurses and a cardiologist who happened to be in the theater performed CPR, the lawsuit said. They also used an automated external defibrillator to shock Adams heart which undoubtedly helped his chances of surviving, said Dr. Andrew Pogozelski, the cardiologist who has treated Adams since the incident.
He was about as close as you can come to being dead, said Pogozelski, chief of cardiology at Allegheny Health Networks Forbes Hospital in Monroeville. This was about as unlucky as you can get for this to happen to an 18-year-old, otherwise healthy person but about as lucky as you can get for people in the movie theater to know what they were doing.
So how many people need to die of The Panera Lemonade That Kills You before they change the mix or pull it from the menuits being discontinued
The problem is the large charged lemonade has the maximum amount of daily caffeine considered "safe". So if the teen also had a coffee earlier or a large soda at the movies they're entering dangerous levels of caffeine without even realizing it.
It likely wasn't just the lemonade but it's a problem that people aren't told the lemonade needs to be literally all the caffeine they ingest that day or they risk problems.
How much caffeine is the limit for a day?
The other problem is since it tastes good, unlike a good majority of other larger caffeine sources, it's easier to drink quickly, unlike, say, coffee, where you're more likely to sip it over time.
EDIT: Similarly, with coffee or typical energy drinks, you need to have more than one to hit that much, whereas with the lemonade, it's easier to think "This is just one drink."
400mg.it should also be noted that 400mg is just a general youll be fine but anymore than this will probably have uncomfortable effects
A cup of coffee has around 50mg for context. IIRC a large charged lemonade is like 395mg
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/spilling-beans-how-much-caffeine-too-much
I've seen people use an entire Mio Energy at once. Serious heart palpitations.
So how many people need to die of The Panera Lemonade That Kills You before they change the mix or pull it from the menuIt's already been pulled. This incident is from months ago
now we cant have nice things... no more charged lemonade.Why would you want caffeinated lemonade?
should be signing a waiver just to drink it.
I've seen people use an entire Mio Energy at once. Serious heart palpitations.The fuck? Isn't that like 1,000+ mg of caffeine? Why would they do that to themselves?
I had the charged lemonade several times while also drinking other energy drinks that day. Can I somehow make money from this?
This too. That's the issue 4loko had: it had way more alcohol than the taste made obvious so people were pounding them down the way they wouldn't with hard liquor.
400mg.Never realized that was considered a limit. I've probably taken at least 600mgs through pills, coffee and soda before when I was dead ass tired.
A cup of coffee has around 50mg for context. IIRC a large charged lemonade is like 395mg
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/spilling-beans-how-much-caffeine-too-much
Never realized that was considered a limit. I've probably taken at least 600mgs through pills, coffee and soda before when I was dead ass tired.Its less of a limit and more of a stuff will probably get weird past here for most people. Caffeine tolerance and sensitivity can vary a ton
I cant believe more people arent talking about the fact that a fucking cardiologist was there with a defibrillator and a god damn nursing team.imagine being in a theater and something happening like that in the movie you're watching, and the person next to you is like, "that's so unrealistic"
You wouldnt believe that in a movie.