Taking a bite out of ....

I know this study will make no difference in the quality of your life, but TGIF .. and in that frame of mind I had to share.

The study looked at 'person on person' biting. Not kids: grown adults who, you guessed it, mixed liquor with fighting.

Most likely to happen on weekends and holidays the bites prove problematic for emergency departments. While not life threatening they can be disfiguring as generally the bites are to the face (think Mike Tyson's ear biting in the ring) or to the upper extremities.

The study, looked at one ER and found 92 cases.
Specifically:
'The 92 patients had 96 bites.
85 of them were men, with a median age of 22, although they ranged as young as 16 and as old as 57.
Alcohol was involved in 86% of the incidents and recreational drugs in 12%.
The median time of the incidents was three in the morning, with 82% of all injuries occurring between 11p.m. and 4 a.m.'

None of the biters were sentenced to wearing a muzzle.

The details of this study, in case you needed some weekend reading are in the Emergency Medicine Journal.