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Doctor reveals shocking details of what happened to man who drank fizzy drinks everyday for 10 years
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Published 19:51 4 Nov 2024 GMT

Doctor reveals shocking details of what happened to man who drank fizzy drinks everyday for 10 years

You really shouldn't do this yourself

Joe Harker

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A doctor has spoken about a patient's case they encountered where a man had been drinking up to seven litres of fizzy drinks a day for 10 years.

YouTuber @chubbyemu does plenty of this, reciting cases they or their colleagues have seen during their careers, including the case of a man who tried to cut out his own skin cancer with a pocket knife, and someone who had been drinking three litres of rum every day since they were 13.

As for this particular man, he'd been drinking so many fizzy drinks each day that he started feeling unwell after about a decade of this (probably even sooner).

After about a week of struggling to stand up and urinating a heck of a lot, he called an ambulance.

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Doctors noted that his muscles were particularly weak, and that he had diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.

He was drinking about seven litres of fizzy drink a day for 10 years, eventually he ended up in the hospital. (Getty Stock Photo)
He was drinking about seven litres of fizzy drink a day for 10 years, eventually he ended up in the hospital. (Getty Stock Photo)

Blood tests showed that he had lots of sugar in his blood and nowhere near enough potassium. His kidneys were also shutting down and not doing their job properly.

His muscles were also breaking down, putting his life in danger.

Feeling incredibly thirsty and nursing one hell of a headache, he was calling his wife to bring him more drinks to have in his hospital bed.

Doctors saw how much he had been drinking, and later told him to stop, as well as telling his wife to stop bringing the drinks in.

They found that his body recovered a bit after he stopped drinking the fizzy drinks.

The doctor explaining that if 'consumed reasonably and sparingly', you'll probably be alright, but that 'if you don't need to put it in your body, don't put it in your body'.

He's not the only one who ended up suffering from this sort of thing.

A Buckinghamshire bloke who was dubbed 'Dr Pepper Man' because he drank so much of the stuff explained that his attempts to quit the fizzy drinks without help failed almost immediately.

Tom Bowey would go for a can of fizzy drink as soon as he woke up, another for his morning commute to work, and then two each in the morning and afternoon at his job, along with whatever he could drink when he got home.

It was giving him headaches, contributing to a weight gain, and with all that sugar and caffeine in his system, he was having serious trouble sleeping.

His dentist also told him that his teeth had decayed to the point that they looked more like they ought to belong to someone old enough to be collecting a pension.

Moral of the story is, it might be best not to drink really sugary drinks in huge quantities - remember the virtue of moderation.

Featured Image Credit: Getty Stock Images Chubbyemu / YouTube

Topics: Food And Drink, Health, Science, YouTube

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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