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Coca-cola can be deadly if abused
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
The popular drink "Coca-Cola" can become fatal if abused. A resident of New Zealand died at the age of 30 due to cardiac arrhythmia, the Ridus agency reports. As doctors have established, the prerequisite for her illnesses, including excessive fatigue, irritability and frequent vomiting, was the use of "Coca-Cola". According to reliable information from journalists, Natasha Mary Harris drank from 7 to 10 liters of the sweet carbonated drink per day.
Her colleague Chris Hodkinson said Harris had been struggling with health problems for the past year, complaining of vomiting, exhaustion and depression, but her family put the symptoms down to gynaecological problems and a reaction to the stress of raising eight children.
Now the popular soda "Coca-Cola" is being blamed for everything. "She drank 10 liters a day. The family bought four 2.5-liter bottles of "Coca-Cola" a day, and Natasha drank almost all of them," said Chris Hodkinson. Doctors found signs of severe addiction in the deceased mother of many children. Without drinking classic "Cola," the lady became irritable and lethargic. Natasha Mary Harris was posthumously diagnosed with " chronic caffeine poisoning and severe hypokalemia."