Is another crisp and flæskestegen juicy, there’s a good chance that you will get a piece too much.

Some actually get so much too much that it results in a decidedly hospitalization due to overeating.

Every christmas, it is estimated that between 50 and 100 people, a trip to the hospital with problems that relate to, that they have eaten too much at the christmas table.

write DR.

– We have every year patients who are admitted primarily because they have eaten too much. It can be heart palpitations or constipation. A rare once in a while we have had patients who can not get air, because they have not chewed their food properly, ” says Poul Henning Madsen for DR, leading senior physician at the akutafdelingen for medical diseases at Kolding Hospital.

He tells at the same time that the hospital has seen cases where juleanden have resulted in deaths.

Fortunately, hear it rare when people get hospitalized.

– the Vast majority of times we can say, then, that it is ‘just’ is constipation due to christmas, says the chief physician to DR.

He recommends that, in the holiday season remember to drink plenty of water, exercise and avoid excessive alcohol intake.