Teenager has 2lb HAIRBALL removed from her stomach

Doctors in India have removed a massive hairball weighing 2.2lb from a teenage girl’s stomach, after she had been consistently gnawing on her hair for five years. The 17-year-old, who has not been named, was admitted to hospital in Pune with severe stomach ache on Saturday. Her pain was so bad she could barely walk, […]

Doctors in India have removed a massive hairball weighing 2.2lb from a teenage girl’s stomach, after she had been consistently gnawing on her hair for five years.
The 17-year-old, who has not been named, was admitted to hospital in Pune with severe stomach ache on Saturday.
Her pain was so bad she could barely walk, and had completely lost her appetite.
Doctors carried out a thorough examination, including doing CT scans, and were shocked to find two pounds of hair and a large lesion in her stomach.
 ‘(The girl) had approached us along with her father,’ Dr Shreehari Dhole Patil, the surgeon who operated on her, said. ‘She said she had acute stomach ache from last three years but had no clue why it was happening.
‘We carried out a couple of tests and during gastrointestinal examinations it was found there was a tumour of 17 by 14 centimetres, and at the border there were thin black coloured threads, like hair.
‘It took us an hour and a half to retrieve the hairball. She is doing well now.’

Culled from metro.co.uk