A 31-year-old housewife and mother of three from a small
village in Punchkula, near Chandigarh, northern India had a giant 3kg
hairball removed from her stomach after more than two decades of chewing
her hair.
She wasn’t able to eat or even take a sip of water without immediately vomiting.
Surgeon Dr Hardeep Singh said: "We asked her if she had a habit of chewing her hair, which she denied. But when we got her ultrasound done, it confirmed a huge mass in her stomach that demanded immediate attention."
After surgery, she admitted to chewing her hair since age nine.
"Her stomach and intestines were filled with hair so there was no way she could’ve digested food or water.
"Whatever she consumed was not getting absorbed and she would vomit."
Dr Singh said he’d never seen anything like it. "It was
around 40 cm long. She is now having proper meals without any issue and
will be discharged from hospital after three days once her stitches are
removed."
She suffered from a rare psychological disorder called trichophagia, or Rapunzel syndrome.
Dr Singh said: "This is usually found in young girls where they suffer some kind of depression in their early years.
"Some of them eat chalk, cement, jute and stones. It demands immediate attention. If not noticed, it can be fatal."Source: UK Mirror
28 comments:
God have mercy, for real?
Ewww wetin person no go see!
Wetin person no go hear! Hai!
~glo rule your world~ cos I do•
Weird...#Balmy
Ewwwwwwwww
...merited happiness
Disgusting thank God d operation was successful
Tufiakwa
Hmm chewing hair K?
Indians...
-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds
Hmmmmm
Terrible addiction.
LWKM. Laugh at Nigeria's funniest pictures here
Witch
Lol but Rapunzel had long hair
Oh oh!!!
Always in india that's where u hear the unbelivable. What a bad habit !!!
*****************************Think of any strang story u can evr imagine ***************** rem of India !!!!!!!!!!!things dar happen over dia ix better imagined
Hmmmmm nawaooo
Ewwwwwww! Linda take note!
Na wa o. Hair again kwa? Thank God for a successful surgery
LIB ADDICT#just passing#
Hmmm nawa o
irritating.
This is terrible. How was she enjoying this. Incredible.
Hmmm..indians I hail ooo. Thank God she's Ok now. I pray she's going back to it.
What the heck??? She needs deliverance
What!!! Indian pple and hair
OMG India pple and their wahala
Hmmmmm
#FINEST
Rapunzel syndrome ko, rumpelstiltskin ni....how can someone chew deir own hair, dis Indian pple sef, hw cldnt someone ve noticed it,dey wld ve bin givin her shamalolo bfor it got to dis
All these odd things happen there.i dnt knw y
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