Neatorama » hairball http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:21:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 And you thought your cats were gross... http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/21/and-you-thought-your-cats-were-gross/ http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/21/and-you-thought-your-cats-were-gross/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:08:55 +0000 Stacy http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/21/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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