At least once in our lives, we have been warned, “Caffeine is bad for you.”

It playfully jeopardizes our body system. However, teenagers and young adults continue to increase in their caffeine consumption though chocolate, coffee, and tea.

But, I want to particularly discuss about energy drinks.

Young people want to remain awake for sleepover, parties, and workloads. These reasons sound understandable, especially from my perspective–I concentrate on my work the best at night when the calm and silent atmosphere embraces me. However, the consequences of these energy drinks are much more horrendous than what we could imagine.

Here are some of the symptoms: dizziness, anxiety, irritability, nausea, jitters, allergic reactions, headache, indigestion, fatigue, hormonal disorder, flushing of skin, liver toxicity, sensory nerve problems, skin lesions, insomnia, diarrhea, nose bleed, high and low blood pressure, chest pain, and vomiting.

I, having been drinking Red Bull, Starbucks Espresso Double Shots, and name me any other possible artificially caffeinated drinks for years, had finally learned my lesson, these energy drinks directly threaten life. Indeed, I was recently chained in bed with an excruciating pain for several days.

Many young adults are making this unwise, immediate choice to intake these questionable drinks for the quickest and the most effective outcome.

In U.S., health officials from the nation’s poison control centers also have declared that 311 incidents of caffeine overdose have been discovered in 2011—today, we are only in February. And, more than half of these victims are children and teens.

I love the profound scent of coffee and the concentration driven from energy drinks.

However, I must face the truth, caffeine kills.