Teen Had Cardiac Arrest After Ingesting Panera’s Charged Lemonade, Lawsuit Says

• A lawsuit alleges that Luke Adams, 18, drank a big Mango Yuzu Citrus Charged Lemonade and went into cardiac arrest hours later
• The teenager later had two seizures at a hospital, the swimsuit added
• Panera lately confirmed to PEOPLE that the Charged Lemonade drinks have been faraway from its menus

Panera is dealing with one other lawsuit over its extremely caffeinated Charged Lemonade drinks, which the model lately discontinued after a number of lawsuits over the drink.

Attorneys for Pennsylvania teen Luke Adams filed a criticism on Monday, Could 20, alleging that the 18-year-old went into cardiac arrest hours after consuming Panera’s Charged Lemonade.

The lawsuit alleged that Adams, a highschool scholar, bought a big Mango Yuzu Citrus Charged Lemonade, which was served to him by a Panera retailer worker in Monroeville, Penn.

A number of hours after consuming the lemonade, per the criticism, Adams went to a see film, and about two and a half hours in, one in every of his associates seen him “making uncommon sounds.” Attorneys wrote that after Adams went into cardiac arrest, two nurses and a heart specialist who occurred to be attending the film started performing CPR on him.

He was then rushed to the hospital, receiving shocks from a defibrillator en route. He later suffered two seizures, in response to the swimsuit.

Attorneys for Adams included his medical notes in courtroom paperwork, which state that his cardiac arrest could have been triggered by “heavy caffeine consumption” and that the seizures have been the results of “unclear etiology, presumably associated to cardiac arrest secondary to caffeine consumption from Panera Charged Lemonade.”

The swimsuit additionally alleged that Adams bought the drink with out figuring out “that the Charged Lemonade was an excellent power drink.” The restaurant lists a big Charged Lemonade as having 237 milligrams of caffeine with ice.

PEOPLE has reached out to Panera for remark.

“Luke Adams’ case is a tragic instance of why the Panera Charged Lemonade is an inherently harmful product and wanted to be faraway from the market,” a lawyer for Adams instructed PEOPLE in a press release, echoing claims made within the criticism. “Clearly, the product’s ‘warning’ was ineffective. Luke was a wholesome 18-year-old with no underlying medical circumstances earlier than he drank one massive Panera Charged Lemonade and went into cardiac arrest.”

Since being launched to the Panera menu, the power drink lemonade has been implicated in a variety of accidents and deaths.

In October, the mother and father of 21-year-old Sarah Katz sued the restaurant chain, claiming that the extremely caffeinated beverage performed a job in her September 2022 demise.

{The teenager} was identified with Lengthy QT Kind 1 Syndrome when she was 5 years previous and allegedly bought Panera’s Charged Lemonade “fairly assured it was a conventional lemonade and/or electrolyte sports activities drink containing an affordable quantity of caffeine secure for her to drink.”

Whereas some Panera places responded to Katz’s demise by placing up warnings in regards to the quantity of caffeine within the drink close to its dispensers, the meals chain confronted extra authorized troubles in December 2023, when the household of 46-year-old Florida resident Dennis Brown sued Panera claiming that his October 2023 demise occurred he consumed three cups of the Charged Lemonade.

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In January 2024, Lauren Skerritt, a 28-year-old athlete and occupational therapist, filed a criticism in opposition to the restaurant claiming that the Charged Lemonade precipitated her to have “everlasting cardiac accidents” regardless of having “no underlying medical circumstances.”

That very same month, Panera eliminated the Charged Lemonade’s self-serve fountains from a few of its places.

In Could 2024, Panera confirmed to PEOPLE that the drink was completely faraway from menus, citing a “latest menu transformation.”