Excessive text messaging may be bad for you, or at least for your fingers.

That's what some Italian doctors believe. They are telling people, particularly the young, that furious typing on mobile phones could lead to acute tendonitis.

A 13-year-old girl in a northern Italian city needed treatment from an orthopaedic specialist after typing at least 100 short message services (SMSs) a day.

She was prescribed anti-inflammatory medicine and ordered to rest her hands.

According to a recent study, some 37 percent of Italian children are "cell phone addicts". Irritability and mood swings were other symptoms linked to very frequent cell phone use among the young.

The message is clear: MayB U shd stop B4 its 2 L8. furious
[adj] 狂暴的
tendonitis
[n] 肌腱炎
orthopaedic
[adj] 整形外科的
anti-inflammatory
[adj] 抗发炎
mood swings
[n] 情绪紊乱症

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