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05-11-2017, 04:09 PM
'Avocado hand' is real and can turn your dream brunch into an ER nightmare
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Avocados can kill.*
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OK, maybe that's an exaggeration, but an improper use of the knife to cut the fruit's hard outer casing before meeting the inner stone can seriously mess up your hand and cause life-changing tendon and nerve injuries.*
Meryl Streep warned (https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiajN681ufTAhUqBcAKHR1-ARgQFggqMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Ftvshowbiz%2 Farticle-2184230%2FMeryl-Streep-appears-Hope-Spring-panel-Tommy-Lee-Jones-kitchen-knife-injury.html&usg=AFQjCNFfDo1TTjYA1xebTVaV51DI7xqr8Q&sig2=r0OIy-KV8f51FNRyUKCGWg) us. Jamie Oliver instructed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjYCjsRYh6s) us.*
But we didn't listen, and **w the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) has raised the alarm to literally stop a collective haemorrhage.
Simon Eccles, secretary of the association and former president of the plastic surgery section of the Royal Society of Medicine, told The Times (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/holy-guacamole-that-s-got-to-hurt-zjzvx3j7d) that he treats about FOUR patients a week with the so-called "avocado hand" at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/11/avocado-hand-injury-er/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Avocados can kill.*
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OK, maybe that's an exaggeration, but an improper use of the knife to cut the fruit's hard outer casing before meeting the inner stone can seriously mess up your hand and cause life-changing tendon and nerve injuries.*
Meryl Streep warned (https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiajN681ufTAhUqBcAKHR1-ARgQFggqMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Ftvshowbiz%2 Farticle-2184230%2FMeryl-Streep-appears-Hope-Spring-panel-Tommy-Lee-Jones-kitchen-knife-injury.html&usg=AFQjCNFfDo1TTjYA1xebTVaV51DI7xqr8Q&sig2=r0OIy-KV8f51FNRyUKCGWg) us. Jamie Oliver instructed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjYCjsRYh6s) us.*
But we didn't listen, and **w the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) has raised the alarm to literally stop a collective haemorrhage.
Simon Eccles, secretary of the association and former president of the plastic surgery section of the Royal Society of Medicine, told The Times (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/holy-guacamole-that-s-got-to-hurt-zjzvx3j7d) that he treats about FOUR patients a week with the so-called "avocado hand" at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/11/avocado-hand-injury-er/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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