I’m pretty sure that after reading this headline, WhatsApp lovers are already getting chills. Well, here is bad news. Medical studies have revealed that excessive chatting on ‘WhatsApp’ messenger service can degrade your health to an extent that you get a thumb disease called “WhatsAppitis.” It is real.
Recent reports by the prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, said that “WhatsAppitis” is a credible disease, after a doctor in Spain diagnosed a 34-year-old female patient with bilateral wrist pain induced by excessive use and abuse of ‘WhatsApp’.
“She held her mobile phone for at least six hours and continuously used both thumbs to send messages to relatives and friends,” Spanish physician Ines M Fernandez-Guerrero wrote in the journal.
\“The next morning, that woman woke up with aching wrists. The diagnosis for the bilateral wrist pain was ‘WhatsAppitis’,” Fernandez-Guerrero added.
The doctor treated the woman with non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs and asked her to completely avoid using the cell phone to send messages.
“Initially reported in children, such cases are now seen in adults. ‘Tenosynovitis’ caused by texting with mobile phones could well be an emerging disease,” he warned.
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