WhatsApp may have changed our lives for the better (how else will everyone know what you’re up to at every minute?) but it might be having more of an effect on our health than we thought.
One health journal published that “WhatsAppitis” should be given more attention after one hospital saw an extreme condition when a 27-month-long pregnant woman complained about pain in her palms.
She used her phone continuously for six hours and used both her thumbs to text the entire time. This resulted in a sudden wrist pain on waking up the next morning.
The 34-year-old emergency physician was put on medication and asked to refrain from texting for a week.
A so-called Nintendinitis was first described in 1990 after several injuries associated with video games and new technologies were reported. They were initially reported in children, but now they’re even seen in adults.
