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To start off: yes the kid is ok and yes i called poison control.
So my 10yo kid had been begging me for one of those Cirkul water bottles. It’s a water bottle that has cartridges that you sip through and it’s supposed to last for 6, 20oz bottles of water through it. i bought a bunch of cartridges to go with it and avoided the ones that said “CAFFEINE” on the front. what i didn’t know, was that there were others that had hidden caffeine, equivalent to a few mountain dews or an energy drink.
my kid came bursting into my room FREAKING OUT at 1am saying “i’m dying i’m dying i’m going to die!”. i had no idea wtf was happening. i thought it was a nightmare or something. then they started complaining about symptoms like racing heart and vibrating skin and diarrhea and i got worried. i asked what they had eaten/drank. they told me they just opened a new cartridge of the water and had 2 bottles of it. i pulled the box out of the trash and was terrified when i saw the caffeine content in small print below the ingredients list. i thought it was just flavored water! it wasn’t coffee or anything! since it’s a cartridge i had no clue how much was ACTUALLY consumed.
we called poison control and we figured out the entire amount of caffeine in the cartridge and realized the entire thing wouldn’t be deadly, just uncomfortable. it was a LONG night.
0/10 do not recommend these things.
tl;dr do not buy Cirkul water bottles for young children
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