Sunday, August 30, 2009 Mahjong 'can cause epilepsy'
A study by doctors in Hong Kong has concluded that epilepsy can be induced by the Chinese tile game of mahjong.
The findings, published in the Hong Kong Medical Journal, were based on 23 cases of people who had suffered mahjong-induced seizures.
The report's four authors, from Hong Kong's Queen Mary Hospital, said the best prevention - and cure - was to avoid playing mahjong.
The study led the doctors to define mahjong epilepsy as a unique syndrome. The distinctive design of mahjong tiles, and the sound of the tiles crashing onto the table, may contribute to the syndrome.
Epileptic seizures can be provoked by a wide variety of triggers, but one cause increasingly evident to researchers is the playing - or even watching - of mahjong.
went to meet yushe at lor7 for night market ytd. bought shark fins & stuffs. bus-ed to bugis to meet howard & lim. wanted to slack after that but we three really sick so went home straight. thanks to nelson for spreading to us. LOLS. next time cough cover your mouth nah! today's plan is meeting nelson first than find lim. howard maybe meeting us only. LOLS. & lim said there's mahjong today =.=
goodbye!
