Caffeine overdose?

What happens to cause death in a caffeine overdose? After you consume the caffeine, what happens in your body that causes you to die??

Caffeine is a stimulant which acts on the central nervous system to speed up the messages to and from the brain.
A person would have to consume 5鈥?0 grams of caffeine (or 80 cups of strong coffee, one after the other) to suffer an overdose. Some effects of caffeine poisoning include involuntary shaking (tremors), nausea, vomiting, irregular or rapid heart rate, panic attack and confusion. An extreme case would be if a person became delirious or had a seizure. Seizure can result in them being unable to breathe, causing death.

It does not take 5-10 grams for a caffeine overdose! I had the equivelent of 10 cups of coffee and was considered an OD case and hospitalized for 2 nights. Report It

I actually had this. I had severe shortness of breath and irregular heartbeats. My blood pressure dropped very low. I was in the ER for 3 days at the heart institute. i was given nitro glycerin, but my blood pressure got too low. My body eventually rebounded back to normal. I still drink caffeiene, but not in large quantities. this actually happened to me by steeping 5 bags of Earl Grey Tea in a small tea pot 3 days in a row and drinking the whole thing. Dumb, I know. But I was trying to stop drinking coffee and alsmost killed myself with the tea!