Resumen

ARANCIBIA ANDRADE, Boris; SALGUERO ARCIENEGA, Leny Claudia  y  ECOS HUANACO, Porfírio. Energizers acute poisoning: Taurina presentation of a case report. Arch.Boliv.Med. [online]. 2013, vol.20, n.88, pp. 26-30. ISSN 0004-0525.

Energy drinksa re widelydistributed, theirconsumption has increased due to easy access, its stimulant properties and safety features attributed to them. A little knowledge of its features is confusing with sports drinks to use them indiscriminately, although sports drinks seek to prevent dehydration and energizer shave a stimulating effect, we present the case of a23year old male who visited our hospital to present altered state of consciousness with allucinations and disorientation with a history of eating energize Red Bull type 6 can sper day during the last 10 days before coming to the consultation. Penetrating in internal medicine with the diagnosis of acute Confusional Syndrome afterI present supraventricular tachycardia wastransferred to ICU where they perform all imaging studies. CT Lumbar and Laboratories all negative for structural and infectious pathology, toxicology laboratory reports very high doses of taurine in plasma, patient was transferred to a rehabilitation centerwith a residual irreversible nerve damage

Palabras llave : Beverages; Caffeine; Taurine; Adverse Effects; Irreversible Neural Damage.