November 22, 2007: Massive hair ball

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From CNN.

Highlights from the article:

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.

Oh bugger I forgot to title the thread properly. :smack:
And that's the only thing I can't edit. :smack:
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I think I'd rather be poisoned than eat that.

More snippets:

"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."

Better than eating someone else's hair - have to go to a lot of shady restaurants for that..

I thought maybe she was giving her 27 cats a daily bath.

Ok. I'll be that guy...

Put some ketchup on it & call it a loaf. Let's eat. :yum: :vomitblu:

Anybody who fixed a plugged sink knows how that nice-looking bezoar must smell. Thought about that? Poor Drs. Drs. Levy and Komanduri.

Congratulations! It's a hairball!

Ugh... I don't think I've ever been so disgusted.

I thought maybe she was giving her 27 cats a daily bath.

:rotflol:

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

Ooohhhhh that's NASTY. :greenface

Never substitute a hairbrush for a spagetti strainer.

Sheldonrs;410069 wrote:

Never substitute a hairbrush for a spagetti strainer.

You've done this?

ZenGum;410164 wrote:

You've done this?

Only for Angel Hair pasta. :-)

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

Are they sure she wasn't pregnant with Cousin Itt's baby?

Don't forget Shawnee, she ate at least 10lbs hair first. And the rest of the loss would have been due to not having any room in her stomach and vomiting after eating. You could achieve the same effect with two fingers...

Nope, it's not going to tempt me!

I love the little pair of snippy scissors on top of it...as if in just one little snip it was gone. Makes for a good advertising campaign for the snippy scissors company.

Those are hemostats.... roachclips of the medical crowd.

that's so gross. eating hair???? hasn't she heard of little debbie?

it says is was black curly hair. sounds like pubic hair to me. she must be sucking the wrong thing.

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