Find out the four tips on how to avoid the ‘avocado hands.

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In 2012, Meryl Streep needed hand medical procedure after a kitchen mishap involving an avocado. Now that the avocado is used more often in kitchens around the globe, it has made people get hand injuries for the most ridiculous and embarrassing reasons.

Avocados are bought by people at a record pace, stemming from a better understanding of the myriad of health benefits that come from eating the fleshy green fat.  But hospitals are seeing cases of a surge in knife injuries of well-meaning ‘chefs’ after attempting to slice an avocado while holding it in their hands.

“Avocado hand” is on the rise in London, stated the  U.K. newspaper, The Times. The staff at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London have come to expect a “post-brunch surge” of hand injuries every Saturday reported.

According to Simon Eccles, former president of the plastic surgery section of the Royal Society of Medicine, a whopping of four avocado-handed patients have been treated at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London in a week.

I am part of the brotherhood. Yes, I too, have once suffered with #avocadohand. 2015. Never forget. pic.twitter.com/3CnvWNfZ55

— Jeremy Jojola (@jeremyjojola) May 12, 2017

“People do not anticipate that the avocados they buy can be very ripe and there is minimal understanding of how to handle them,” Eccles explained. “We don’t want to put people off the fruit, but I think warning labels are an effective way of dealing with this.”

“It needs to be recognizable,” Eccles suggested. “Perhaps we could have a cartoon picture of an avocado with a knife, and a big red cross going through it?”

Oliver said that while trying to remove “stone,” or pit from the center of the avocado majority of accident happens.

“Avocados are becoming a much more popular fruit and a dish people feel more comfortable preparing,” NYU Langone Medical Center’s doctor Sheel Sharma told CBS News.

“I’ve definitely seen an increase in the number of injuries to the hand from slicing avocados,” Sharma said, noting that the avocado injury does not discriminate. “I have seen a range of celebrity chefs to bankers to housewives to filmmakers and people of all ages,” he stated.

 

 

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