A welder in the UK found dead in his bedroom by his housemates had overdosed on caffeine, a coronial inquest has heard.
Polish national Lukasz Sandelewski, 36, had a blood-caffeine concentration of 282 micrograms per millilitre, more than three-and-a-half times what would be considered a fatal dose.
His housemates found him dead in December last year after receiving a concerned Facebook message from his mother, who was having trouble reaching him.
His room in the town of Peterborough was cluttered with "lots of empty drinking vessels", assistant coroner Sean Horstead told the coronial inquest.
But the inquest concluded that it is not known how he had consumed so much caffeine.
His cause of death was listed as "misadventure".
"His death was the unintended consequence of a deliberate act," Mr Horstead said.
"He deliberately consumed a significant and fatal quantity of caffeine but I'm satisfied the consequences of that weren't intended by him."
Mr Sandelewski had also been drinking the night of his death, but not in quantities to contribute to his death.
Fatal caffeine overdoses are very rare but not unheard of.
In January 2018, NSW man Lachlan Foote died after accidentally consuming a fatal dose of caffeine powder.
"Lachie probably didn't get to read the label, because it does come with a warning on the package," Mr Foote's father Nigel told A Current Affair.
"And so I'd say he had no idea, and the fact he kept it in the kitchen pantry says to me he had no idea of the potency."
It's believed Lachlan consumed about one teaspoon of the powder that night.
Even that amount contains 5000 milligrams of caffeine - equivalent to 35 cans of Red Bull, or up to 50 cups of coffee.
"We're absolutely sure that this is just an innocent, young-person mistake," he said.
"We can all look back on our lives and think we've made mistakes, but this is an innocent mistake."
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