A video has been shared on Facebook for a long time in which you can supposedly see the heartbeat of a man who has drunk 24 cans of Red Bull...

And again we received inquiries about an old video that is currently being distributed again. The video achieved around 70,500 views on Facebook

It shows a man strapped to a stretcher receiving medical care while his heart appears to be clearly pumping more or less regularly:

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This is what the heart looks like after 24 cans of Redbull :O

This video has been circulating on the internet since 2015. Colleague Ralf carried out the fact check at the time and was able to correct the following:

24 Red Bulls in a row... that's a lot. At this point we would first like to quote one of our employees, who would certainly like to remain anonymous, but was able to top that with 42 (!) Red Bull:

“I lay in bed and bawled. Yelled because my head was pounding and I just wanted to fall asleep. I felt so bad. Plus all the alcohol... But my heart/chest wasn't bubbling like that. But it was hell. Brain freeze after too much ice cream sucks.”

This should be a warning to everyone not to try to imitate this. So please don’t turn it into a stupid “Facebook challenge”! In England, a mother of four even drank 24 cans of Red Bull every day for five years, as the Mirror reported , although she is not known to have had such a violent heartbeat.

Where does the video come from?

The video itself leads us to the source of the video, as you can briefly see an overlay at the bottom that refers to stumpertjes.nl, a Dutch website that mostly publishes more or less “funny” videos. Funnily enough, the video has now been removed from that site.

According to the company's own statements, the video is about the treatment of the Brazilian Sertaneja singer Cristiano Araújo, who died on June 24, 2015. The video was allegedly made immediately after the accident and shows artificial respiration.

The website Latina-Press writes about the accident:

According to doctors, the artist was admitted to the emergency room of the hospital unconscious. Artificial respiration was carried out and brain death was diagnosed.

The singer died due to the accident, but whether the video shows the agony cannot be completely confirmed.

And what is that now?

In any case, no mega heartbeat from Red Bull, we can assure you of that!
Fortunately, we also have doctors among our employees, so we showed them the video and got an explanation pretty quickly.

What you see in the video is a so-called serial rib fracture with paradoxical or inverted breathing and unstable left half of the thorax ; the red skin is explained by a strong impact, for example an accident.

To put it simply (here please imagine the “Sendung mit der Maus” melody): Several ribs are broken on the left side, as a result the chest is no longer stabilized and the lungs expand as they want with every breath. So at that point the chest expands or contracts again when breathing.
Sounds strange? But it is true!

Conclusion:

A nonsense site from the Netherlands claims that this was caused by 24 cans of Red Bull. Someone else takes their chance and “rip” the video to put it on Facebook (Type: Likes are everything, whether true or not). The first page apparently deletes the video itself, both on their site and on YouTube. It will continue to circulate on Facebook.

Yes, you shouldn't drink Red Bull in large quantities. Not even in moderation (you know what we mean!). And too much caffeine is unhealthy anyway. For adults anyway, and even more devastating for young people.

And you still don't get a heartbeat like a cartoon character does when he's in loveWinking smiley - Author: Ralf N. - mimikama.org


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