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faceless
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Giant hairball found inside teenager
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Goodness gracious, great ball of fur! It may look like a giant turd, but this is a massive hairball. Remarkably, and disgustingly, this was discovered inside a real person. The mass of fuzz was found in the abdomen of an 18-year-old woman in the US.
She complained to doctors of suffering five months of pain and swelling, causing her to vomit after eating and lose 18kg in weight. A scan of the abdomen by doctors in Chicago revealed a large mass, and they then lowered a scope through her esophagus. It showed the medical team that a ball of hair was blocking the woman's stomach.
The patient told doctors she had a habit of eating her hair, something she had been doing for five years. The condition is called trichophagia. The scientific name for a hairball is a trichobezoar. Wow. The woman underwent surgery to remove the black, curly hair, which weighed 4.5kg and was 38cm long. She returned home five days later, and has stopped eating her hair.
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luke
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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thats crazy - 38cm! |
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maycm
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds like she had a close shave then. |
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Brown Sauce
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| guess who's comin' for dinner, natty dreadlock ... |
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nekokate
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| That is vile! I go crazy if I even have a single hair in my mouth. She likes to eat the stuff??? |
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Skylace
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| There was a girl a few years back over here that died from that. |
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major.tom
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| That's just incredible. No wonder she didn't feel well. |
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eefanincan
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| Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 2:42 am Post subject: |
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| nekokate wrote: | | That is vile! I go crazy if I even have a single hair in my mouth. She likes to eat the stuff??? |
I'm exactly the same kate. But this is a real psychiatric illness..... I remember learning about it in nursing school, but I've never actually looked after anyone who's had it.
This site has a little background on it: Trichophagia |
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Skylace
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| Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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| eefanincan wrote: | | nekokate wrote: | | That is vile! I go crazy if I even have a single hair in my mouth. She likes to eat the stuff??? |
I'm exactly the same kate. But this is a real psychiatric illness..... I remember learning about it in nursing school, but I've never actually looked after anyone who's had it.
This site has a little background on it: Trichophagia |
I had a student who did this but it was her eyebrows and eyelashes that she ate. I didn't get to work with her long because they moved quite quickly after registering her. |
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Marcella-FL
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| Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 2:56 am Post subject: |
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| Isn't trich the disorder where they pull their hair out? (not necessarily eat it but obsess about pulling it out.) |
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eefanincan
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| Marcella-FL wrote: | | Isn't trich the disorder where they pull their hair out? (not necessarily eat it but obsess about pulling it out.) |
I think that's part of it for some people.... the "phagia" part is where they swallow it. |
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Skylace
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| Marcella-FL wrote: | | Isn't trich the disorder where they pull their hair out? (not necessarily eat it but obsess about pulling it out.) |
That's Trichotillomania. |
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eefanincan
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| Skylace wrote: | | Marcella-FL wrote: | | Isn't trich the disorder where they pull their hair out? (not necessarily eat it but obsess about pulling it out.) |
That's Trichotillomania. |
Show off!  |
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Skylace
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| Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| eefanincan wrote: | | Skylace wrote: | | Marcella-FL wrote: | | Isn't trich the disorder where they pull their hair out? (not necessarily eat it but obsess about pulling it out.) |
That's Trichotillomania. |
Show off! |
Who me? |
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Twirley
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| Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| That's quite nasty! |
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