A woman had to have her jaw reset after dislocating it while eating a triple-decker burger.
Nicola Peate, from Ormskirk, Lancashire, injured herself while eating at Liverpool’s Almost Famous restaurant on Aug. 8.
Peate, 25, who has a syndrome which makes her joints unstable, was treated at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital the next day. She said she would be “more conscious of the size of food in future.”
Photo: Chen Wei-jen, Liberty Times
照片：自由時報記者陳維仁
Emergency department clinical director Kathryn Clark said dislocations such as Peate’s were “rare.” “I hope that in future, she takes more care when eating over-sized burgers,” she said. She added that “if food is too large, we would recommend cutting it into more manageable chunks.”
(Liberty Times)
一名女子吃三層漢堡時下巴脫臼，必須接骨。
來自英國蘭開夏郡奧姆斯科克的妮可拉．皮特，八月八日在利物浦「小有名氣」餐廳吃飯時讓自己受傷。
二十五歲的皮特小姐有種症狀會導致關節不穩定。（吃漢堡導致下巴脫臼的）隔天，她在利物浦大學皇家醫院接受治療。她說，以後她「吃這麼大的食物時會小心一點」。
急診部臨床主任克拉克說，像皮特小姐這樣的下巴脫臼相當「罕見」。「我希望她以後吃超大漢堡時更小心一點。」她還說，「如果食物太大，我們會建議切成幾塊，比較容易吃」。
（自由時報／翻譯：國際新聞中心）
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