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Freaking out about DD and toxic Prime drink PFA chemicals

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ChainReacting · 08/07/2024 09:37

Would appreciate someone to chat with, even if it’s not comforting, as I’ve just been reading up about the lawsuits around the seriously high levels of chemicals (3x the lifetime amount!) in Prime hydration drink.

DD (10) is obsessed with it for the past two years. Absolutely obsessed. I have let her buy and drink one bottle of each of the flavours - including the lawsuited Grape - but that looks to have been a terrible decision. I’m not qualified to understand the science completely but the level of toxicity seems to be very high. She will have inherited a genetic pre-disposition to cancer anyway and now I can’t sleep thinking that we’re given her cancer. Sorry that this isn’t a true AIBU but could really do with a handhold. Thanks very much!

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ChainReacting · 08/07/2024 10:30

@MereDintofPandiculation if that’s the case, I could hug you. Your explanation does make more sense than having multiple lifetimes worth of the chemical in one bottle.

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BobbyBiscuits · 08/07/2024 10:35

You can't die of cancer from drinking one bottle of pop?! Half the kids in the developed world would've dropped down dead by now, it's been popular for several years and some drinks more than one a day. Even if someone took heroin they wouldn't die from doing it once! (Well I guess it's possible)
Honestly please don't worry.

Ohhmydays · 08/07/2024 10:36

InTheRainOnATrain · 08/07/2024 10:03

The lawsuit refers to one unverified independent study, the case hasn’t been heard yet could likely be thrown out as the plantiff wants $5 million despite being absolutely fine. And how much could DD have drunk of it if you bought it on holiday in the US? The caffeine in these drinks is insane though, may as well let her have a triple espresso as at least that’s natural. So I’d be banning it from now on but stop panicking about the cancer risk, it’s unfounded, you get PFAs in fish and presumably you wouldn’t panic if she had sushi for lunch…

Its the cans ghat have caffeine, the bottles don’t. My partner had a bottle and gave our son a drink. I went daft because i thought they had caffeine in them because of news articles i had read. He told me it was just the cans so i double checked and it was fine.

InTheRainOnATrain · 08/07/2024 10:44

Ohhmydays · 08/07/2024 10:36

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You’re right, the caffeine lawsuit is in NY and the PFA lawsuit is in CA, I hadn’t realised they were different. Regardless, I wouldn’t let my kid drink it again but I certainly wouldn’t be losing any sleep over it either.

Mustreadabook · 08/07/2024 11:10

FeatherBoas · 08/07/2024 09:58

It sounds like a bit of a scare thing, the bottles are apparently used by many other drink manufacturers, so shouldn't pose a hazard, the drinks do/may have high levels of caffeine, so I wouldn't be giving them to kids. I think it's all these chemicals may do this and that so I wouldn't be too panicked.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/prime-sports-drink-hit-lawsuit-32653824

https://www.just-drinks.com/comment/could-forever-chemicals-court-case-be-nail-in-coffin-for-viral-drinks-brand-prime/?cf-view

There are two types of prime, the energy drinks (cans) have caffeine in, the hydration drinks (bottles) don't.

US2gether · 08/07/2024 12:17

Wormfanclub · 08/07/2024 09:40

It’s not clear from your post how much she has drank.

”Obsessed” makes it sound like she drinks it every day.

But they you say you’ve let her by one of each flavour. What - ever? Per week?

This.

A few bottles over 2 years is nothing to worry about.

Several bottles a day maybe

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ChainReacting · 08/07/2024 13:29

Thanks for all the replies - am less panicked now that I understand the levels better (thanks for all of the links).
Am still upset and guilty that I gave into her in the first place, even if the risk is tiny. You try your hardest with these things but there’s always stuff that slips through. Am so tired of messing it up!

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BlackeyedSusan · 08/07/2024 14:07

She's about to hit teen years...

This could get a whole lot worse. Try to think how you will minimise it now.

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ChainReacting · 08/07/2024 15:03

@BlackeyedSusan that’s such a good point, she’d be lethal left to her own devices. Will do some thinking / reading up.

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BlackeyedSusan · 08/07/2024 15:35

I suggest packed lunch for as long as possible. Not giving her cash to spend on the way to school for as long as possible and trying to get buy in to healthy eating. Giving treats that are the least bad. Don't restrict all treats as she might do what I did and go mad at the sweet shop!

AntheasAccessories · 08/07/2024 20:16

Glad you’ve had reassurance @ChainReacting I’m going to ask as gently as I can if everything thing is ok with your anxiety levels? You had a thread the other week worrying a lot about an earring that had been dropped on the floor and put back in a healed piercing. Your reaction to that and to this are a bit heightened - maybe worth having a think and maybe a chat with your gp as you seem to be getting very anxious about things that most people would be able to brush off.

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