Dispensary Corner 22 Aug 13
August 22, 2013
Fast food can be bad in more
ways than just contributing to the
obesity epidemic.
A 25-year-old woman has been
put in hospital after dislocating
her jaw while trying to consume a
triple-layer beefburger in the UK.
Nicola Peate, who suffers from
joint disorder Ehlers-Danlos
syndrome, was at the Almost
Famous restaurant and bought a
‘Kids in America’ burger.
“It felt like I had a cramp in my
tongue, then I started to get an
earache and a headache,” she said.
Eventually she called an
ambulance and was committed
to Royal Liverpool University
Hospital where doctors put her
jaw back into place.
And while we’re on the subject
of obesity, a Saudi Arabian man
weighing a whopping 610kg has
been airlifted to hospital, after
being ordered to undergo medical
treatment by the country’s ruler.
King Abdullah organised for part
of the building where Mr Shaeri
lived to be demolished so that
a forklift could gain access, to
carry him to a specially equipped
military plane which transported
him to King Medical City in the
Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh.
The ruler is paying for Shaeri’s
medical treatment, after the
man was bed-bound for over two
years, during which his weight
ballooned.
He’s thought to be the second
heaviest man ever recorded.
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