DOCTORS in Chicago have reportedly removed a 4.5kg hairball from a young woman's stomach.About 10 lbs.
The eighteen-year-old woman told a team of gastrointestinal specialists that she had experienced abdominal swelling, vomiting after eating and had lost 18kg over the past five months, the New England Journal of Medicine reported.
Doctors Ronald Levy and Srinadh Komanduri from Rush University Medical Centre said a scope lowered through her esophagus revealed "a large bezoar (hairball) occluding nearly the entire stomach".
"On questioning, the patient stated that she had had a habit of eating her hair for many years – a condition called trichophagia," the doctors wrote. "It seemed like she'd been doing this for several years," Dr Levy said in an interview with CNN.
The 4.5kg hairball measured 38cm by 17.8cm by 17.8cm.
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Once the giant hairball was removed, the teenager's pain and vomiting stopped and she had regained 9kg. She has also stopped eating her hair.
Has she done a Britney Spear?