Woman 9 lb hairball

9-lb Hairball Removed From Teen

( 4UMF NEWS ) 9-lb Hairball Removed From Teen:

Ayperi Alekseeva, 18, had been struggling with bad stomach pains. When it got to the point that she couldn’t eat or drink without getting sick and she started losing weight, the Kyrgyzstan teen went to a hospital in the capital, Bishkek — where doctors determined she had a ball of hair weighing nearly 9 pounds blocking her digestive system. They removed the hairball in an emergency surgery. Yahoo News reports.

As for how it got there, it seems Alekseeva liked to chew the ends of her hair and also eat hair she picked up from the floor; she promised doctors she would break those habits.

“Her stomach was so badly swollen from hair and bits of wool from the carpet that it literally just oozed out soon as the wall of the stomach was cut,” says one of her doctors, who adds that the hairball may be the largest one ever removed from a person.

Her doctors say she would have died of dehydration or malnourishment without the surgery, Metro reports.

Woman Has 10 LB Hairball Removed from Stomach

An 18-year-old woman had a 10 pound hairball, or bezoar, removed from her stomach. The hairball measured 15 inches by 7 inches by 7 inches. The woman suffers from trichophagia, which is a habit of eating your hair.

The woman had been complaining of stomach pain and swelling for 5 months, throwing up after eating, and weight loss of 40 pounds. Doctors said she had been doing this for years.

Five days after surgery, the woman was eating regularly and was discharged. One year later, the woman has quit eating her hair, and has gained 20 pounds.

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Doctors recently took a 10-pound hairball from an 18-year-old woman after she came to them with pain and a 40-pound weight loss.

The New England Journal of Medicine said the woman had been suffering with pain in her abdomen for about five months.

Doctors found a mass there, and when they used a small camera, found that the hairball was taking up nearly her entire stomach.

The patient said that she has a habit of eating her own hair, a condition called trichophagia.

Doctors

tried to use small incisions to remove the mass, but then had to go to

traditional surgery to make sure the entire hairball was removed.

The

journal's report said the girl left the hospital after five days and

was asked to follow up with a psychiatrist. Within a year, she had

regained about half of the weight she lost and said she had stopped