Teen hospitalized after 40 hours non-stop gaming
A 15-year-old Russian from the Siberian city of Omsk had to be rushed to hospital after 40 hours of non-stop playing computer games.
The teenager’s parents had given him the computer as a birthday present, after months of complaints that he couldn’t play the games all his friends play, Life.ru website reports.
However in just a couple of weeks the parents had to restrict gaming time, as their son’s school marks started to suffer dramatically.
When his parents finally went away for the whole weekend, the teen had the PC all to himself.
On returning home, the parents found him white as chalk and showing no reactions to anything around him.
“At first we thought he was faking, but then he started to turn blue,” his mother said.
The paramedics that arrived at the apartment took the unconscious kid, who appeared to have spent 40 hours at his computer, to hospital with low blood pressure.
The boy now faces weeks of rehabilitation, and possibly months of not playing computer games.
A 15-year-old Russian from the Siberian city of Omsk had to be rushed to hospital after 40 hours of non-stop playing computer games.
The teenager’s parents had given him the computer as a birthday present, after months of complaints that he couldn’t play the games all his friends play, Life.ru website reports.
However in just a couple of weeks the parents had to restrict gaming time, as their son’s school marks started to suffer dramatically.
When his parents finally went away for the whole weekend, the teen had the PC all to himself.
On returning home, the parents found him white as chalk and showing no reactions to anything around him.
“At first we thought he was faking, but then he started to turn blue,” his mother said.
The paramedics that arrived at the apartment took the unconscious kid, who appeared to have spent 40 hours at his computer, to hospital with low blood pressure.
The boy now faces weeks of rehabilitation, and possibly months of not playing computer games.
I thought only Atari could put you into a catatonic state. It only happened to me twice back in the early 80s. Once an addict, always an addict but these days I only play 3-4 hrs at a time...
