Heavy toilet seats pose risk to male toddlers
Heavy wooden and ornamental toilet seats have recently become trendy, but doctors have noticed that such seats can fall down and injure penises of male toddlers. Ouch!
Writing in the December issue of BJU International, Dr Joe Philip and his colleagues at Leighton Hospital, Crewe, report on four boys under the age of four, who were admitted with injuries serious enough to require an overnight stay.
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“A recent market research report has suggested that there has been a worldwide increase in the number of wooden and ceramic toilet seats sold. We would not be surprised to hear that other colleagues have noticed an increase in penis crush injuries as a result of this.”
The doctors make several recommendations, including:
Households with male infants should consider leaving the toilet seat up after use, even though it contradicts the social norm of putting it down.
That’s a social norm?