The actual hairball removed from the girl's stomach!
From the stomach-turner file:
A long time habit of hair chewing culminates in a massive bezoar build up in an 18-year-olds stomach. The New England Journal of Medicine explains the young woman had five month history of pain and swelling in her abdomen, vomiting after eating and a 40-pound weight loss.
A scan of the patient’s insides revealed a large mass. Doctors then inserted a scope through her esophagus which showed “a large bezoar occluding nearly the entire stomach,” wrote Drs. Ronald M. Levy and Srinadh Komanduri.
The 18-year-old offered that she had had a habit of eating her hair for many years. This is actually a medical condition called trichophagia.
She had surgery to remove the massive, 10 lbs, block of hair. Following the operation, her symptoms disappeared and she regained 20 lbs. The Journal also reports she no longer eats her hair.
Filed under: Health, humor, News Headlines, Strange but true Tagged: | Hairball, New England Journal of Medicine, Trichophagia
Yikes…
That’s hid-e-o-us!
That is disgusting!!! I bet she no longer eats her own hair – question of the century WHY???
I used to stick my hair in my mouth when I was 5 or 6 years old and just suck on it. My mother was constantly threatening me. She should have found a picture like this. Sweet Jesus!
YUCK–thanks for sharing.
Whoa. That is crazy. And she’s only 18!!
I think I see a cheerio and a bit of bread crust hung up in that mess.
that’s filarious!!
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funny/hilarious
hahahahahahah
that’s pretty yummy
kelsey said disgusting!!
find me on myspace hahaha
I agree its filarious
it really makes me want to gag looking at it though
why would you eat your own hair
i wonder what it tastes like
EW! OMG! I put hair in my mouth.. but dont actually eat it….. AHHH! never doing that again
Yeah, pretty hideous, eh?
Even in a world full of horrible images, that is certainly a standout. Some humans have the strangest quirks. On the other hand, someone would look at that photo and say “Oh, that’s where I lost that roach clip.”
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