How Did A Ham Sandwich Nearly Kill This Healthy Teenage Boy?

Josh Hamilton’s Caffeine

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“Drinking caffeine, coffee in the morning, coffee midday, Energy drink before the game, chocolate after the game,” explained baseball player Josh Hamilton. “All these things were compounding and making it worse and worse.” Is Hamilton talking about a minor caffeine addiction? Unfortunately for him, his level of caffeine consumption resulted in ocular keratitis, in which his corneas dried out and became inflamed.

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