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Old 11-22-2007, 10:00 AM   #1
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November 22, 2007: Massive hair ball

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From CNN.

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The New England Journal of Medicine reports on the case of a previously healthy 18-year-old woman who consulted a team of gastrointestinal specialists.

She complained of a five-month history of pain and swelling in her abdomen, vomiting after eating and a 40-pound weight loss.

After a scan of the woman's abdomen showed a large mass, doctors lowered a scope through her esophagus.

It revealed "a large bezoar [hairball - ZG] occluding nearly the entire stomach," wrote Drs. Ronald M. Levy and Srinadh Komanduri, gastroenterologists at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.

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The woman underwent surgery to remove the mass of black, curly hair, which weighed 10 pounds and measured 15 inches by 7 inches by 7 inches, the doctors said.

Five days later, she was eating normally and was sent home.
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Old 11-22-2007, 10:04 AM   #2
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Oh bugger I forgot to title the thread properly.
And that's the only thing I can't edit.
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Old 11-22-2007, 10:09 AM   #3
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I think I'd rather be poisoned than eat that.
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Old 11-22-2007, 10:13 AM   #4
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"On questioning, the patient stated that she had had a habit of eating her hair for many years -- a condition called trichophagia," they wrote.
"It seemed like she'd been doing this for several years," Levy told CNN.



A year later, the pain and vomiting were gone, the patient had regained 20 pounds "and reports that she has stopped eating her hair."
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Old 11-22-2007, 10:34 AM   #5
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Better than eating someone else's hair - have to go to a lot of shady restaurants for that..
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Old 11-22-2007, 11:10 AM   #6
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I thought maybe she was giving her 27 cats a daily bath.
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Old 11-23-2007, 12:02 AM   #7
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Ok. I'll be that guy...

Put some ketchup on it & call it a loaf. Let's eat.
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Old 11-23-2007, 03:17 AM   #8
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Anybody who fixed a plugged sink knows how that nice-looking bezoar must smell. Thought about that? Poor Drs. Drs. Levy and Komanduri.
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Old 11-25-2007, 12:25 PM   #9
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Congratulations! It's a hairball!

Ugh... I don't think I've ever been so disgusted.
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Old 11-25-2007, 12:28 PM   #10
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I thought maybe she was giving her 27 cats a daily bath.


Ya think they prodded it in disbelief when they pulled it out?

Ooohhhhh that's NASTY.
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Old 11-25-2007, 03:21 PM   #11
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Old 11-25-2007, 10:29 PM   #12
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You've done this?
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Old 11-26-2007, 07:24 AM   #13
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Only for Angel Hair pasta. :-)
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Old 11-26-2007, 03:58 PM   #14
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Old 11-26-2007, 04:10 PM   #15
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Are they sure she wasn't pregnant with Cousin Itt's baby?
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