20-Year-Old Texas Woman Goes Into Cardiac Arrest After Consuming Energy Drink During Workout… Fighting For Her Life With Organ Failure

"A young woman was left fighting for her life after she consumed a popular energy drink while working out and then went into cardiac arrest.

Jazmin Garza had a few sips of the beverage, used as a pre-workout, before she began lifting weights with her boyfriend, Isaac Ayala, in November.

But moments later the 20-year-old, from the US state of Texas, collapsed on the floor, her body convulsing and her nose bleeding. Her 21-year-old boyfriend rushed over to find she wasn’t breathing, so he performed CPR until emergency services arrived and rushed Garza to a nearby hospital.

“As soon as the paramedics got there, they took over and gave her CPR for several minutes and were finally able to get her heart pumping again after using a defibrillator to jump-start her heart,” Mr Ayala wrote on a GoFundMe page raising money to help cover medical costs.


Thankfully, Garza has made a “miraculous recovery”, and after two weeks in hospital she was allowed home – but the couple are now saddled with expensive hospital bills. “We are now overwhelmed with medical bills and the doctors still haven’t found out what the main cause of the cardiac arrest was,” Ayala explained.

“We also lost our jobs due to the amount of absences we had to take because of this incident.”

Garza said she had been doing deadlifts when “all of a sudden” she felt unwell.

“I don’t usually drink caffeinated drinks at all. I hadn’t been to the gym for a while and wanted to have a really good workout so had a third of an energy drink, “After working out, I sat myself down and really didn’t feel well. I felt light-headed. Isaac said I looked really pale.

It’s not known if the energy drink contributed to the 20-year-old’s sudden health condition.

Studies have shown excessive consumption of energy drinks has been associated with cardiovascular events such as tachycardia, myocardial infarction, and death." - NYPOST | Commentary via DailyMail|