10 year old boy needs surgery after 8 hour wow binges.

[pinelakias]

Obviously you didnt see the story when a criminal refused to crap for 40+ days, so he wouldnt incriminate himself.

Damn, now I gotta go shit! How did he manage that for 40days? I read a sentence about shitting and I gotta go do my business :P

[Rotted]

Hmm I used to do this when I was 12 to 18 and I had nothing like this, interesting, also I recently had my bowels checked via ultrasound or what it was and it seemed fine.

I was going to say the same thing, I used to get up at 7am, and be down my hill to catch the school bus for 8am. From 7:30 am to 5pm when I eventually got home, I wouldn't have gone to the bathroom all day because the school toilets were shabby at best. Every day, 5 days a week I did that. No matter how much I needed to go.

I don't doubt sitting down for 8 hours ignoring the need to go triggered it, but I think there's a underline issue.

[jazen]

The levels of WoW flaming have now reached the lowest point possible.

[Drusin]

Probably because medically it's impossible for this to occur without previous issues.

Nah, because there is no one source everyone will accept as credible. FBI.gov? CNN? Fox? MSNBC? NYTimes? WashingtonPost? DailyMail? No matter what source you use, someone will say it's not credible lol.

Also I don't know, I'm not a doctor or in the medical field.

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I was going to say the same thing, I used to get up at 7am, and be down my hill to catch the school bus for 8am. From 7:30 am to 5pm when I eventually got home, I wouldn't have gone to the bathroom all day because the school toilets were shabby at best. Every day, 5 days a week I did that. No matter how much I needed to go.

Same lol, it was an unspoken rule that you don't shit in school. If someone did and someone else walked in they would make note of their shoes and then point them out when they finished lol. I only remember one kid doing it and the bullying that he experienced was astounding lol, a literal crowd of people laughing and picking on him for using the bathroom lol

[LoLcano]

Parents fail to discipline kid, IT MUST BE VIDEOGAME fault . if u leave your 10 yo to do w/e he want unsupervised for 8 hours something is wrong with u .

Back when i was 10yo i was allowed to play with my Nintendo 1.5 hour per day and only during time that no one wanted to watch TV . (we had only 1 TV )

[Socialhealer]

8 hour WoW binge?

Those are rookie numbers in this racket.

Also these Kids literally sound autistic, not addicted.

problem is it's 8 hours refusing to take a piss, sure we've all done 12 or 16 hours, but we at least go to the fucking toilet when needed.

[Shaetha]

Same lol, it was an unspoken rule that you don't shit in school. If someone did and someone else walked in they would make note of their shoes and then point them out when they finished lol. I only remember one kid doing it and the bullying that he experienced was astounding lol, a literal crowd of people laughing and picking on him for using the bathroom lol

This is by far the most fucked up thing this thread has brought up.

OT: Isn't it normal to shit once a day unless you have some kind of IBS? It's kind of preposterous that a newspaper would try to get away with such a bullshit story.

[Deleted]

8 hours?

Git gud son.

[Powerogue]

Weak! Everyone knows you utilize flight points to take bathroom breaks.

[Mormolyce]

Who the hell is still playing 8 hour binges of WoW?

I mean, I thought it was just me.

[Vakna]

8 hours lol, them are rookie numbers.

[Uncle]

It sounds like a fake.

[Noomz]

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Children are developing long-term health problems because of the time they spend gaming or glued to devices, a leading doctor warned yesterday. Jo Begent, a paediatric consultant, said a boy of ten had come into her surgery with a deformation so severe that at first she believed it was a tumour. Further examination revealed the child had developed a dilated bowel because he had stopped himself from going to the toilet so he could carry on gaming. The boy was playing World of Warcraft, Call of Duty and FIFA for eight hours at a time, Dr Begent said.

Dr Begent, who practises at University College London Hospital, said: 'I was doing my general paediatric clinic one day and a boy walked in, a ten-year-old limping and looking really poorly.'He had a mass coming out of his pelvis and I panicked and wondered if he had a type of cancer.' Checks revealed he had appalling constipation and his bowel had dilated.

'His bladder wall was so thickened,' she said. 'When I took the history in better detail this boy was gaming so much that his bladder and bowel were so deformed because he had stopped going to the loo.' She said he had been so distracted by gaming he had ignored basic bodily urges. Dr Begent, who was addressing the annual conference of the NSPCC, said gaming and social media were increasingly affecting the physical and mental health of youngsters. The issue had 'crept up on us', she warned, with an exponential rise of cases in recent years.

She added: 'The sleep and obesity issues are the things we first started noticing – but these more profound physical health issues are just dawning on us now.' Some children risk their hormones being affected because they are not sleeping enough. In dramatic cases, Dr Begent believes young girls who are ignoring meals to be able to stay glued to their devices could be at risk of stunting their development. She said: 'Hormonal pubertal development can be affected if they are low weight. And indeed obesity can affect pre-pubescent development as well, if you are very obese you can get polycystic ovaries – that might affect your periods.'

Worrying about beating another player on video games such as Fortnite is also damaging children's bodies far more than just a fleeting moment of stress, she warned.



I hate seeing this happen to kids but I have to wonder how does it happen?

So uh, why is your 10 year old playing WoW? It's marked 12+.
Fucking idiotic parents will of course blame games for their own negligence.

[Shadowsgrace]

10 years old.... he's too young for an account, and 8 hours... is nothing.

[Nurasu]

First of all, no one needs to shit every 8 hours; second, wouldn't your kidneys be in excruciating pain before you ever made it to "thickening your bladder wall"? None of this sounds medically realistic.

[mvaliz]

But then my diet doesn't consist of fried chicken tenders, flamin' hot cheetohs and energy drinks.

Technically the Chicken Tenders and Cheetohs probably would help - particularly the tenders as they would contain oils and what-not. Likewise the spices from the Cheetos would stimulate acids to help break down material faster. Obviously it's not going to provide much in the way of vitamins, but in the context you're talking about...

Can't speak for the energy drinks, however, because that shit is made of space chemicals, and that could be turning the cells in your colon into plastic for all I know. >.>

[Daedius]

Quality parenting, and a stupid kid...

[Faenskap]

I didn't realize it was physically possible to hold it so hard that your bowls could physically deform like that?! I mean, seriously, wouldn't the pain be freaking excruciating? How do you get so absorbed in something that you could manage to ignore that?

And fuck, for that matter, what exactly are you doing that requires 8+ hours of non stop, uninterruptible focus? Surely there must be some point (like when you hop on flight path or something) where you could just step away from the computer and take a dump.....

I have no idea, but he's not the first

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-10357533.html

Emily Titterington, 16, died after going eight weeks without a bowel movement which left her with a compressed her chest cavity and displaced organs

He must have other issues, really, for as you say, what requires that much focus in WoW? Surely even bleeding edge guilds have toilet breaks (I hope)

[Ozyorkbourne]

I didn't realize it was physically possible to hold it so hard that your bowls could physically deform like that?! I mean, seriously, wouldn't the pain be freaking excruciating? How do you get so absorbed in something that you could manage to ignore that?

And fuck, for that matter, what exactly are you doing that requires 8+ hours of non stop, uninterruptible focus? Surely there must be some point (like when you hop on flight path or something) where you could just step away from the computer and take a dump.....

I think i'd personally shit myself first. Not by choice but just overflow, you know?

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I hate seeing this happen to kids but I have to wonder how does it happen?

There are 2 things to blame here.

1) The child is too stupid to go to the toilet. I don't know if there's a mental disability involved (not gaming addiction, a real mental disability).

2) The parents. Why was a child unsupervised for 8 hours, why are there no parental controls on a 10 year olds World of Warcraft account when the feature has been available for years even to people who just want to control themselves and why did the parents not teach the child better. I can't fathom being 10 years old and ignoring my bodily functions like that, can anyone here?

Also wth underlying medical condition did he have that holding it for a few hours burst his bowels...

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He must have other issues, really, for as you say, what requires that much focus in WoW? Surely even bleeding edge guilds have toilet breaks (I hope)

Correct and if you genuinely need to go then you say so and a brb is called (not that any 10 y.o is in a well ranked progress guild and progress has been done since december/january), everyone else who could do with going does so, people get drinks etc. For someone to need to go to the toilet then hold it for 8 hours screams of a deeper problem.

[Cherrytie]

This Generation is so weak. 8hrs a day?
Git gud