Doctors in India find 1.8kg hair ball in teen’s stomach
inSing.com - 3 October 2012 6:54 PM | Updated 4 October 2012 11:24 AM
<cite style="display: block; font-style: normal; font-size: 10px; margin: 4px 0px; ">The hair ball that was removed from a 19-year-old girl's stomach by doctors in India (Photo: Screengrab from YouTube)</cite>
A teenage girl in India was not able to eat or drink for a few days and what followed was a stomach-turning find.
Doctors at the Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital in Indore discovered a 1.8kg ball of hair-and-chalk mix that was stuck between her stomach and small intestine.
NDTV reported that the 19-year-old, from Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh, had a habit of chewing on her own hair and pieces of chalk while sitting in class.
The accumulation of both substances caused an intestinal obstruction, which was why she was unable to eat anything else, a doctor said.
The operation was done by a team of gastro-surgeons, and they pulled out the ball of hair which was wrapped around a mass of chalk, New York Daily News reported.
Dr Parvinder Singh Lubana, who led the team, said the operation was a success and the girl is fine.
In 2007, CNN reported that an 18-year-old girl from Chicago in the US had the habit of eating her own hair – a condition known as trichophagia. Doctors there removed a 4.5kg “mass of black, curly hair” from her stomach after she endured five months of abdominal swelling and pain, and vomiting after food.
inSing.com - 3 October 2012 6:54 PM | Updated 4 October 2012 11:24 AM
A teenage girl in India was not able to eat or drink for a few days and what followed was a stomach-turning find.
Doctors at the Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital in Indore discovered a 1.8kg ball of hair-and-chalk mix that was stuck between her stomach and small intestine.
NDTV reported that the 19-year-old, from Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh, had a habit of chewing on her own hair and pieces of chalk while sitting in class.
The accumulation of both substances caused an intestinal obstruction, which was why she was unable to eat anything else, a doctor said.
The operation was done by a team of gastro-surgeons, and they pulled out the ball of hair which was wrapped around a mass of chalk, New York Daily News reported.
Dr Parvinder Singh Lubana, who led the team, said the operation was a success and the girl is fine.
In 2007, CNN reported that an 18-year-old girl from Chicago in the US had the habit of eating her own hair – a condition known as trichophagia. Doctors there removed a 4.5kg “mass of black, curly hair” from her stomach after she endured five months of abdominal swelling and pain, and vomiting after food.
