And you thought your cats were gross…



hairball

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]


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Posted on January 21, 2008 at 4:08 pm by StacyBee
Category: Medicine



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