Giant hairball removed from teen's intestines
Published: 2013 March 19 20:24:11 (5580 Views)
Medics in India discovered a ball of hair weighing almost 4lbs stuck between a 19year-old's stomach and small intestine.
The 19-year-old student had a habit of eating her hair and chalk while in class, and the combination had built up inside her body.
A team of gastro-surgeons was alerted to the problem after the woman, from Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh, attended the Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital in Indore in 2012.
Led by Dr Parvinder Singh Lubana, the surgeons were able to remove the giant hairball in a successful operation.
The hairball was wrapped around a mass of chalk.
Dr Amit Agarwal, one of the surgeons in the team, said that the woman had developed an intestinal obstruction leading to no intake of food and water for a couple of days.
Incredibly, the hairball is not the largest to be removed from a patient in recent years.
In November 2007, doctors in the US reported having found a 10lb hairball inside a woman's stomach.
The woman, who was 18 at the time, sought help after suffering pain and swelling in her abdomen for five months, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.
A scan showed that there was a large mass in her abdomen and further tests showed it to be a ball of black, curly hair.
Ronald Levy and Srinadh Komanduri, gastroenterologists at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, wrote: 'On questioning, the patient stated that she had had a habit of eating her hair for many years - a condition called trichophagia.'
The ball weighed 10lbs and measured 15ins by 7ins by 7ins, the doctors said.
The medics added that, within five days of surgeons removing the hairball, the woman was eating normally and was sent home.
- DailyMail
The 19-year-old student had a habit of eating her hair and chalk while in class, and the combination had built up inside her body.
A team of gastro-surgeons was alerted to the problem after the woman, from Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh, attended the Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital in Indore in 2012.
Led by Dr Parvinder Singh Lubana, the surgeons were able to remove the giant hairball in a successful operation.
The hairball was wrapped around a mass of chalk.
Dr Amit Agarwal, one of the surgeons in the team, said that the woman had developed an intestinal obstruction leading to no intake of food and water for a couple of days.
Incredibly, the hairball is not the largest to be removed from a patient in recent years.
In November 2007, doctors in the US reported having found a 10lb hairball inside a woman's stomach.
The woman, who was 18 at the time, sought help after suffering pain and swelling in her abdomen for five months, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.
A scan showed that there was a large mass in her abdomen and further tests showed it to be a ball of black, curly hair.
Ronald Levy and Srinadh Komanduri, gastroenterologists at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, wrote: 'On questioning, the patient stated that she had had a habit of eating her hair for many years - a condition called trichophagia.'
The ball weighed 10lbs and measured 15ins by 7ins by 7ins, the doctors said.
The medics added that, within five days of surgeons removing the hairball, the woman was eating normally and was sent home.
- DailyMail
0
You May Like These Videos
WATCH: Victims Narrate Ordeal After Being Clobbered By Riot Cops
FLASHBACK: Morgan Tsvangirai Won't Resign Despite Illness 
Police Violently Beat Harare Protesters 
Zimbabwean Man Who Was Shot By Tswana Employer Appeals For HelpComments
There are no comments.
Get Zim Metro Updates Alerts
Big Reads
Schoolgirl drops out after continuous 'sexual abuse' by teacher
by Staff Reporter | 2019 August 13 07:42:33
Mugabe Knows Nothing About The Zimbabwe Constitution: MP
by Staff Reporter | 2016 October 01 08:12:02
Zim's Protesting Graduates Risk Losing Degrees For Expressing Anger Against Mugabe
by Staff Reporter | 2016 October 01 07:57:08
Troubled Harare Giants Dynamos Falls Into Another Deep Crisis
by Own Correspondent | 2016 October 01 07:49:17
Grace Mugabe Grovels At Mnangagwa, Says I Did Not Ask Ubaba To Fire You
by Staff Reporter | 2016 October 01 07:31:48
Mugabe Attacks Mawarire, Claims The Exiled Pastor Failed To Divide Zimbabwe
by Staff Reporter | 2016 October 01 07:19:13
Shock As Local Bank Denies 'Rich' Mugabe's Son Heifty Credit
by Own Correspondent | 2016 September 30 19:14:54Trouble For Police Officers Who Have Been Mercilessly Bludgeoning Protesters
by Staff Reporter | 2016 October 01 07:20:19
Mugabe "Home Coming" And "Thank You" Rally On Cards
by Own Correspondent | 2016 September 23 06:48:24
Prof Moyo Was Dumped By Western Embassies, Claims Mutsvangwa
by Staff Reporter | 2016 September 22 10:08:07Broke RBZ Tracks Down Zimbabweans Living Outside The Country Over Taxi
by Staff Reporter | 2016 September 22 09:16:20
You Are Too Old To Lead, Aging Zim President Mugabe Told
by Own Correspondent | 2016 September 22 07:19:25
Anti-Corruption Commission Loses Property In Failed Probe
by Own Correspondent | 2016 September 20 03:18:19
.jpg)
SHOCKING:14 Year Old HIV-Positive Boy Rapes 7 Pupils
by Own Correspondent | 2016 September 20 00:04:55
