Coinciding with the rise in consumption of the fruit, doctors are seeing more cases of the “avocado hand”—a condition that occurs when a person tries to remove the seed in a dangerous manner and ends up cutting their hand.
According to Hass Avocado Board, avocado consumption has tripled since 2000, with Mexico and the U.S. taking the biggest pieces of the avocado pie.
Coinciding with the rise in popularity has been avocado hand injuries that have been flowing into the hospitals, including one of Melbourne’s largest metropolitan health services, Eastern Health.
“We regularly see kitchen knife injuries; approximately three presentations across each of Eastern Health emergency departments per week,” emergency services director Dr Peter Jordan told the Epoch Times….