Chinese woman develops blood clots after spending 20-hour train journey staring at phone without moving
Migrant worker spent journey back from Lunar New Year celebrations in the same posture
A Chinese woman developed blood clots on her brain after spending 20 straight hours looking at her phone screen during a train trip, according to local media reports.
The 47-year-old woman, a migrant worker, took a train from her hometown in central China’s Henan province to the southern city of Guangzhou at end of the Lunar New Year holiday, video news site Kankan News reported on Tuesday.
Like many others, she used her phone to kill time during the trip.
The train was packed, which made it hard for her to move, and she maintained largely the same posture for over 20 hours, lying on her right-hand side throughout the journey.
The woman fainted when she got off the train and was sent to hospital, where a CAT scan found several blood clots had formed on her brain.
Doctors immediately performed a three-hour operation to remove the clots to prevent further blockages to the arteries in the brain – which would have been life-threatening.