Binge drinking’s illnesses: Women catching men

WOMEN are catching up with men in suffering more gruesome physical effects of binge drinking — such as torn bladders and pancreatitis.

Until now, doctors only expected to see men with ruptured bladders as a result of excessive amounts of alcohol.

But the latest issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) describes three cases of bladder rupture in women who attended a hospital in the space of 12 months.