Woman Who Spent Government Cash on Red Bull Asking for More to Solve Health Problems from Red Bull

A woman in Ireland who has been spending a fourth of her monthly benefits on Red Bull energy drinks is now asking for more government assistance to help her lose the weight she gained from drinking 28 of them per day.

Lena Lupari, a 26-year-old and 364-pound unemployed woman, has gained so much weight from the energy drinks that her brain is swelling, according to an article in the Daily Mail.

Lupari, who reports having experienced severe headaches for five years, said she collapsed on June 18 and went to the hospital — where doctors told her she had developed idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) due to her being so overweight. The disease can lead to vision loss, which Lupari says she has also been experiencing.

“I’d been suffering from migraines and headaches for about five years but I just ignored them and took painkillers,” Lupari told the Daily Mail. “Then my vision went and I couldn’t even lift my head off the bed and I ended up in hospital for six days.”

The Daily Mail reports that Lupari had been spending £450 ($702.64) of her £1,800 ($2,810.16) in monthly benefits on the drink.

#related#Although Lupari has since quit drinking Red Bull (good move!) and lost about 30 pounds, she’s now saying she believes the National Health Service should help her lose the additional 70 pounds she needs to lose in order to avoid medical treatment.

“I don’t want a gastric band or surgery but I think they should offer help for someone with this and to motivate them — something like a boot camp,” she told the Daily Mail.

Twenty-eight cans of Red Bull a day amounts to a whopping 3,080 calories, which is where Lupari claims she got most of her daily intake from — other than the “something fast-food like a takeaway or packet of pasta” that she usually had for dinner.

Each of these 8.4 ounce cans also contains 80 mg of caffeine and 27 g of sugar. The energy drink’s website recommends having no more than four of these cans per day to avoid caffeine-related health problems.