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| 10 Pound Hairball Removed from Teen's Stomach | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 23 2007, 11:17 AM (123 Views) | |
| 24thcenstfan | Nov 23 2007, 11:17 AM Post #1 |
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Surgeons Remove Ten-Pound Hairball From Teen Girl's Stomach
I guess it didn't make the news until now when it appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. At least she is doing better (it appears). Click Here to see the Hairball That thing is huge. |
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| Mel | Nov 23 2007, 11:39 AM Post #2 |
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I've heard about this condition before. They usually pull out their hairs one by one, and then either eat them or not. But I've never heard of this.
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| 24thcenstfan | Nov 23 2007, 04:03 PM Post #3 |
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I've never heard of a mental condition that caused people to eat their own hair before. It seems almost obsessive compulsive. Animals will swallow hair when they are cleaning. The goal appears different. I wonder why hair doesn't move through the digestive tract? Even food that the stomach doesn't break down easily (e.g. corn and tomato seeds) will move its way through whole.I still can't get over how big that clump of hair is. |
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| TribbleMom | Nov 24 2007, 09:58 AM Post #4 |
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OMG! I've heard of this condition before, where someone compulsively eats their own hair, but not to this extreme. She must have been pulling it out by the handful for a long time. 10 pounds of hair?! |
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