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Teenage Girl’s Stomach is Home to a Four Pound Hairball

by Savitha C Muppala on Oct 3 2012 7:16 PM

Teenage Girl’s Stomach is Home to a Four Pound Hairball
A strange habit of biting hair and chewing chalk turned a 19-year-old girl’s stomach to play host to a four pound hairball which had got lodged between her stomach and small intestine.
When she was unable to eat or drink anything for a few days, the teenager was examined at the Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital in Indore last month.

11 Year Old Undergoes Surgery for Removal of Stomach Sized Hairball
11 Year Old Undergoes Surgery for Removal of Stomach Sized Hairball
A psychosomatic condition called impulse control disorder, caused an 11 year old Indian girl to undergo a 90 minute surgery to remove a foot-long hairball lodged in her stomach.
The girl loved to eat her hair and chalk. Doctors operated upon her and a huge hairball was removed from her stomach.

The girl is on the road to recovery.



Giant Hairball Removed from Girl�s Stomach
Giant Hairball Removed from Girl�s Stomach
US surgeons have removed from the stomach of a 18-year-old girl a giant hairball weighing ten pounds. The girl is said to be ok now.
Source-Medindia
Doctors Remove 600-gram of Hair from 12-year-old Girl's Stomach
Doctors Remove 600-gram of Hair from 12-year-old Girl's Stomach
Doctors found a 600-gram lump of hair inside the stomach of a 12-year-old Kausar Parveen from Bikaner after her family asked for a check up on complains about stomach ache.

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