That? Is a 10-pound hairball that was living happily in the stomach of an 18-year-old woman. The woman apparently had a habit of eating her hair (also known as trichophagia). She went to the doctor after five months of stomach pain, vomiting after eating and a 40-pound weight loss.
Link [Photo: The New England Journal of Medicine]
CSI
40-pound weight loss? I bet they’ll be plenty of girls frantically chewing on their hair when they read about that.
Louisa
Egads. My sister used to suck on her hair as a kid. Can’t wait to send her this article. I’m evil.
haricotvert
Confirmed repost:
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/29/ten-pound-hairball-removed-from-wo man/
Alex
Ah, that’s why it looked so familiar! Well, duplicates happen (especially when we have over 12,000 posts on Neatorama and multiple authors). Still, a very neat post!
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