Kids are consuming dangerous levels of caffeine at higher rates

The number of children exposed to often dangerous levels of caffeine has been steadily on the rise, and is only increasing, according to a national study by Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the Central Ohio Poison Center.

From 2011 to 2023, the United States saw a 17% increase in overall exposures to caffeine energy products to kids, not including tea, coffee or caffeinated soft drinks. While solids, like pills, had gone down in exposure numbers, liquids like energy drinks rose by 35% and powders or granules, like increasingly popular pre-workout powders, rose by 633%.