One cup of coffee in the morning won’t hurt, neither would 2 or 3… right? The Food and Drug Administration explains the safe daily coffee intake for a healthy adult is 400-miligrams, 100 for teens. While it is not causing fatalities, coffee is not recommended in teens.

Why do teens drink coffee in the first place? To stay awake. With piles of homework, an after-school job, and maintaining a social life, it’s pretty hard to squeeze in a good 7-8 hours of sleep. So, what do we all resort to? Caffeine in any form. Coffee, energy drinks, pure poison (5-hour energy shots). Finding a way to stay alive and make it through the day can be difficult but so will dealing with the caffeine side effects be.

Coffee-stained teeth, stomach problems, increased jitteriness, insomnia, dehydration, and worst of all, caffeine headaches. While no all of these will apply to every person, they still exist and are a possibility. Caffeine headaches by far are the worst possible thing to happen. They usually occur after you’d been drinking coffee consistently and suddenly stop. That stop day will be one of the worst you’ll have. Imagine your head being heavy and filled with wires that tug on each other whenever you turn your head. And don’t forget that nothing helps except for laying down and sleeping, and that only works once in a blue moon.

While the side effects seem discouraging, knowing people such as myself exist, they aren’t strong enough to stop the teen caffeine intakes. Therefore, I ask to simply moderate the coffee intake and stay away from energy drinks compared to normal coffee.