Most of the injuries were caused by real trees, and only two people got poked by artificial trees. Thirteen of the 15 people seen at Moorfields Eye Hospital in that Christmas period needed three or less visits to the hospital to get well. But two needed follow up treatment for two months. Luckily, nobody had permanent eye damage from feral Christmas trees. According to Dr. D. J. Brazier from Moorfields Eye Hospital, nationwide, such injuries could give rise to considerable loss of working time.
Jewish holidays have their own hazards.
This celebrates the recapture of the Temple in Jerusalem from the Greeks. Friends and relatives get together over the eight big nights of the festival to exchange gifts, light candles and eat a lot. Traditional foods of the festival include potato pancakes and jam donuts. When the doctors went diving into her oesophagus with an endoscope, they retrieved a special little Chanukah chocolate wafer, which had been wrapped in foil to look like a coin. At the site from where the foil wafer was removed, the doctors could see early signs of an perforation.