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Sat 9 Jun, 2007 08:40 am
Man sues over erection drink
Ananova
6/7/07
A man is suing the maker of a vitamin-enriched health drink, claiming it gave him an erection that would not subside. Christopher Woods said he had to be hospitalised because the erection would not go down, reports Metro. His lawsuit said he bought the health drink Boost Plus made by the Swiss-based Novartis pharmaceutical company, at a US drugstore in June, 2004.
Novartis' Boost Plus Web site describes the drink as "a great tasting, high calorie, nutritionally complete oral supplement for people who require extra energy and protein in a limited volume," in vanilla, chocolate and strawberry.
Woods' court papers say he woke up the next morning "with an erection that would not subside" and sought treatment of the condition, called severe priapism.
They say Woods, 29, from New York underwent surgery that day for implantation of a Winter shunt, which moves blood from one area to another. The lawsuit says Woods had problems that days later required a hospital visit and penile artery embolisation, a way of closing blood vessels. Closing off some blood flow prevents engorgement of the penis with blood and lessens the likelihood of an erection.
Woods' lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, names Novartis Consumer Health Inc. as a defendant.
A spokeswoman for the company, Brandi Robinson, said the company was aware of the lawsuit but did not comment on pending litigation.
One of the counties in Idaho had an indigent medical case a few years ago that resulted from an overdose of some sort of "herbal Viagra". After three days of erectile hyperfunction, this dolt's girlfriend threw him out of the house. He proceeded to consult his father as to what to do, and, in keeping with the family genetics, he told him to "put it in a bucket of ice and hit it with a hammer". He did!! Hopefully, the medical procedure was insufficient to allow reproduction.
Other reports say that he drank a six pack of the drink and that may be why he had such an unusual reaction.
Joe(My wife just ordered three cases of the stuff)Nation
I bet Boost defends the case like mad. Ya couldnt buy publicity like that.
Of course you could manufacture it.
Guess we won't be seeing you for a while after it comes in, Joe.
Whenever I have that problem I make it a point to see a nurse. Better yet, TWO nurses!
The Jack Ass probably took Viagra with his "Boost".
If he's been much older, he would have died in bed, stiff as a golf
club.
I hate all these crap lawsuits. There's nothing in Boost that will do that. Unless you're watching reruns of "Webster" while drinking it.
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