Boozy Britain: Ruptured bladders give warning to women drinkers

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LONDON (AFP) — Doctors on Friday issued a fresh warning over Britain's culture of binge drinking, pointing to cases of ruptured bladders among women who had been boozing.

The cluster of cases is disturbing, for until now this condition had only ever been seen among male drinkers, they reported in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).

The three unidentified patients, aged 24, 32 and 37 were separately admitted with abdominal pains to a hospital in Wakefield, in the northern English county of Yorkshire, the doctors said.

Investigations showed that all three had suffered a rupture of the bladder following heavy drinking. Two had been binge-drinking the night before, and the third had been drinking for 72 hours previously. The damage had to be repaired by surgery....