A MAN suffered a deadly cardiac arrest after guzzling Red Bull every day. His wife, Meagan Shreve, has claimed her husband's caffeinated pop habit which saw him drink up to three cans a day caused his "heart to stop" beating. In a video shared on TikTok , Meagan (@ladyshreve) recounted the night doctors performed chest compressions on Aaron Shreve to resuscitate him, resulting in broken ribs.
He was then forced to stay in hospital for "five to six weeks" while cardiologists monitored his heart . Meagan claims medics said her husband's cardiac arrest was brought on by "dehydration" and he was having "too many energy drinks." According to Meagan, Aaron was drinking around "two to three'" energy drinks per day, plus coffee .
Read more on energy drinks A cardiac arrest is a medical emergency that occurs when the heart suddenly stops beating. The ordeal started in January this year when Aaron woke his wife up in the middle of the night to tell her he "wasn't feeling great". "His heart was racing, his hands and feet were going numb and he just didn't feel right," she said.
"I thought he was having a panic attack...
he was like, I think you need to call 911, I think I need to go to the hospital," she added. Most read in Health Within "less than a minute" of seeing the hospital doctor, her husband had collapsed. "All these alarms started going off.
..his heart stopped," she said.
Hospital staff started chest compressions in a bid to restart his heart and keep him alive Thankfully the d.