Metal Toxicity New Grounds for Drinking Coffee

New Grounds for Drinking Coffee

Coffee: grounds for concern?

C aff eine is the most widely ingested nonregulated substance on earth. A major portion of this drug is consumed as coff ee, with an annual production of over 7.8 million metric tons. Over 2.5 billion cups of coff ee are consumed worldwide each day. Given its popularity, it is hard to conceive of how Western civilization might begin each workday without this critical liquid allotment. Despite t...

"Coffee grounds" through the chest tube.

A 78-yr-old Saudi male was admitted having had epigastric pain and vomiting for 3 days. The patient was unable to give a clear medical history; however, he described the pain to be severe, colicky, nonradiating and aggravated by food. On the day of admission, he had noticed a small amount of fresh blood in the vomitus. The family indicated that he had had a long-standing history of intermittent...

The Toxicity of Used Coffee Grounds to the Larvae of Ochlerotatus (Finlaya) notoscriptus (Skuse) (Diptera: Culicidae)

The exotic Ochlerotatus notoscriptus is the most widespread container-breeding mosquito species in anthropic habitats in northern in New Zealand, and also a potential disease vector. We tested the toxicity of used coffee grounds, a recently proposed larvicide, to the species’ larvae, which is known to be tolerant to a wide range of water quality levels. High concentrations of used coffee ground...

Heavy coffee drinking and epilepsy

Dietary habits have been rarely associated with seizure frequency in patients with epilepsy. We report a case of a man with a partial symptomatic epilepsy whose daily habit of heavy coffee drinking was associated with an increased seizure frequency. This patient witnessed a dramatic decrease in the frequency of his seizures after stopping coffee ingestion. Caffeine is a global stimulant and the...