The trends of teens keep on changing with their age. Though most of the children find fun in engaging in activities prohibited by their parents, some can prove to be risky, like the one happened with the Ohio boy.
The 15-year-old, Tyler Rigby was rushed to the hospital for dehydration after playing a video game, "Modern Warfare 3" continuously for four days, CBS reported.
The boy had locked himself in his room and came out only for eating and bathroom. When the boy came out of his room finally, Tuesday morning, he looked pale and had blue lips.
"I was very scared. I thought he was going to die," Rawlins told the CBS station. "He just fell over three times."
Doctors managed to save the boy who was in a serious condition. The boy is reported to be scared about the Xbox after the incident and didn't object when his mother took it away from him.
This is not the first incident that highlights the dangers involved with the game addiction.
In 2011, a 20 year-old British youth, Chris died from a blood clot that was formed after playing video games continuously for nearly 12 hours. The young man was glued to his computer the whole night- playing games and engaging on social networking sites- and died from a vein thrombosis (a clot that forms in the deep veins in legs) the next day.
In July, a Taiwanese Gamer died after playing a game Diablo III in a private internet cafe room for 40 hours, according to Huffington Post.
Apart from the addiction, the games can also have a negative impact on the children's behavior. Earlier studies have found games, especially war games making children violent.
Playing video game was also the secret behind the shooting skills of Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian mass killer accused of murdering 77 people in Norway, recently. During interrogation, he admitted playing shooter game "Modern Warfare" for 16 months and "World of Warcraft" for one year helping him to improve his shooting skills.
