Bra Fractures, I-Can’t-Recall-My-Pin Syndrome and the World of Tricky Medical Conditions
FHM lists out the newest health afflictions straight off the lifestyle war.
Bra unhooking fractures
A 27-year-old right-handed man arrived in the casualty ward of St. George’s Hospital in London with a painful left middle finger, the doctors thought it was a simple case of a torn ligament. It wasn’t. The gent in question broke his finger while unhooking a bra by getting his fingers entangled between the straps and his partner’s shoulder blade. Turns out there are more cases like this one around the world too.
Virality: Stable, on the rise
Cure: Learn to unhook a bra properly
Cash-point amnesia
The fact that everything from your laptop to your net banking and Myntra require you to remember a password more complicated than an excel sheet, the brain has simply stopped registering passwords. The result - a crowd cursing you gathers behind you as you punch in one wrong pin after the other while trying to furiously call your mother for your ATM pin.
Virality: Fast spreading
Cure: Save passwords on a cloud keychain
Insomnia caused by music
Or songs more specifically. If a song or any other composition has been playing in your head round the clock, it will rid you off your sleep and play hop scotch with your concentration levels. A 2005 report by Welsh investigators said that the instances of this condition are on the rise because we are exposed to music almost everywhere - in car, gym, lift, cabs and even loos.
Virality: Spreading
Cure: Shazam. If a song is stuck in your head you might as well know who sang it.
Urban hypothermia
This is a condition in which young women and men wear skimpy clothes in cold regions to show off their body or a tattoo. In 2006, such cases were on a rise in Scotland.
Virality: High
Cure: Trousers
Misophonia
If there are specific sounds that irritate you or fuel strong negative reactions, you are Misophonic. Professor Pawel Jastreb of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, says the sound could be of anything from metal rubbing against marble flooring, or someone scratching the walls with nails.
Virality: Medium
Cure: Earphones. But wait, they cause infections.
Hamburger inspired asthma
New research says that kids wolfing down hamburgers by the dozens breed asthma by increasing blood flow to the lungs. The research was carried out by the Wellington Medical School amongst 1,000 students.
Virality: Medium risk
Cure: Eat a chicken burger
Online shopping stress
If you shop online too often, you could be a victim of Online Shopper’s Syndrome, which according to the Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford is marked by heart rate fluctuations, muscle tension and sweating when a person visits an e-commerce portal.
Virality: High
Cure: Do your shopping offline
Sleep-related eating
First identified in the American Journal in 1995, the sufferers of this condition walk up to the fridge at night to eat something. All of this is done while sleep.
Virality: Low
Cure: Lock the refrigerator before sleeping.
Deafness caused by golf clubs
A 55-year-old golfer in Britain who had been playing golf thrice a week for the past 18 months complained of hearing loss and uneasiness. Doctors found out that the deafness was caused by the sound created when his titanium-headed driver hit the balls.
Virality: No risk
Cure: Wearing ear plugs while playing.
Have you heard of Restless Genital Syndrome? Don’t expect us to tell you everything, go Google!
From the May 2014 issue of FHM India.
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