Furusho J, Yamaguchi K, Ikura Y, Kogure T, Suzuki M, Konishi S, Simizu G, Nakayama Y, Itoh K, Sakamoto Y, Ishikawa A, Ezaki S, Nawata J, Kumagai K
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan.
Acta Paediatr Jpn. 1998 Dec;40(6):550-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-200x.1998.tb01988.x.
Many children in Japan developed various neuropsychological problems, including seizures, while watching the program Pocket Monster, televised on 16 December 1997. To examine the basis for this incident, we have performed a survey of volunteering children and their parents who visited our pediatric clinics for other reasons from 8 January to 28 February 1998. Children and their parents filled out questionnaires. Among the total of 662 children surveyed, the great majority (603, 91.1%) was found to have watched the Pocket Monster program and 30 individuals (5.0% of viewers) complained of variable degrees of neuropsychological abnormalities. These included seizures (two cases), headache (nine cases), nausea (eight cases), blurred vision (four cases), vertigo (two cases), dysthymia (two cases) and vomiting (one case). Nearly half (14) of these children developed symptoms during or immediately after watching the program, while the remainder did so later. Representative cases are reported and other statistical aspects are discussed.
1997年12月16日播放的《宠物小精灵》节目播出期间，许多日本儿童出现了各种神经心理问题，包括癫痫发作。为了调查这一事件的原因，我们对1998年1月8日至2月28日期间因其他原因前来我们儿科诊所就诊的志愿儿童及其家长进行了一项调查。儿童及其家长填写了问卷。在总共662名接受调查的儿童中，绝大多数（603名，91.1%）被发现观看了《宠物小精灵》节目，30人（占观众的5.0%）抱怨有不同程度的神经心理异常。这些异常包括癫痫发作（2例）、头痛（9例）、恶心（8例）、视力模糊（4例）、眩晕（2例）、心境恶劣（2例）和呕吐（1例）。这些儿童中近一半（14名）在观看节目期间或之后立即出现症状，其余儿童则在之后出现症状。报告了典型病例并讨论了其他统计方面的情况。
