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Swiss doctors identify gaming related disease

by on27 February 2009

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12 year old told to leave it alone


A 12
year-old girl was told to stop playing computer games for two weeks after she caught a serious hand infection caused by excessive gaming.


"Palmare PlayStation Hidradenitis" has been identified by professor Vincent Piguet from the University Hospital of Geneva, and includes painful lesions on her palms for four weeks.


She had huge red nodes which were very spectacular. It turned out that the girl hid from her parents the fact that she spent hours on her PlayStation and Piguet worked out that the nodes were caused by sweat activating minuscule cutaneous injuries.


Apparently after ten days the illness went away and the girl suffered from a large influx of 'life' and is believed to have seen 'open spaces' for the first time in a long while.


The research was published in the British Journal of Dermatology.

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