First Oktoberfest Bierleiche after two hours

First Oktoberfest-„beer corpse“ after two hours

09/21/2014

About two hours after „Oktoberfest Start“ was the first at the Munich Oktoberfest „beer corpse“ to record. In contrast to previous years, when patients had to be treated for alcohol poisoning before the beginning of the festival, this time it has become early afternoon.

Alcohol victims partly already in the morning
„O´is tapping!“: Only 125 minutes after the first barrel was hit at the 181st Munich Oktoberfest, helpers of the Red Cross had to treat the first alcohol victim on Saturday at 2:05 pm. According to a report by the dpa news agency, the doctors diagnosed alcohol poisoning in a young man and provided him with food in the surveillance room. In earlier years, it had the first „Bierleichen“ given in the morning, even before the opening of the festival and the first official beginning of the tavern. Even though beer sales traditionally begin only after the tap at 12.00, there are always visitors who „vorglühen“.

Over 600 alcohol poisonings in the last year
The medical director of the Wiesn Sanitätsstation, Frithjof Wagner, repeated his warning from the previous year: „The Wiesn beer has a higher alcohol content than the usual bottled beer. The effect unfolds especially when you have nothing in the stomach, at higher temperatures and hasty enjoyment much faster than usual.“ Last year, doctors from the Munich Red Cross treated 629 patients for alcohol intoxication during the Oktoberfest. In 2013, a total of 7,324 patients were treated at the BRK Sanitätsstation. They had their first case on Saturday at 8.30 am: A man complained of severe abdominal pain and was taken to a clinic.

No alcohol for children and adolescents
On the website of the BRK, district association Munich, Sanitätsstation Oktoberfest, is in the area „Tips“ to read that „especially younger Oktoberfest visitors who enjoy alcohol to a greater extent“, should consider that someday the fatigue comes, the nights in the „Indian summer“ are already cool and so many nocturnal drinkers have found the next day with a hypothermia in a clinic. It is also pointed out that children should absolutely not drink alcohol, „because drunk children or teenagers are anything but original“. If these „Tips“ due to bad experiences in the past, is not discussed. (Ad)