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ZenGum

11-22-2007 10:00 AM

November 22, 2007: Massive hair ball

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From CNN.

Highlights from the article:

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The New England Journal of Medicine reports on the case of a previously healthy 18-year-old woman who consulted a team of gastrointestinal specialists.

She complained of a five-month history of pain and swelling in her abdomen, vomiting after eating and a 40-pound weight loss.

After a scan of the woman's abdomen showed a large mass, doctors lowered a scope through her esophagus.

It revealed "a large bezoar [hairball - ZG] occluding nearly the entire stomach," wrote Drs. Ronald M. Levy and Srinadh Komanduri, gastroenterologists at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.

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The woman underwent surgery to remove the mass of black, curly hair, which weighed 10 pounds and measured 15 inches by 7 inches by 7 inches, the doctors said.

Five days later, she was eating normally and was sent home.

ZenGum

11-22-2007 10:04 AM

Oh bugger I forgot to title the thread properly. :smack:
And that's the only thing I can't edit. :smack:
Help me Undertoad Kenobi, you're my only hope [/Leia]

EDIT: Thanks! Whether it be UT, or some other moderator, or the noodley appendage itself!

Sundae

11-22-2007 10:09 AM

I think I'd rather be poisoned than eat that.

ZenGum

11-22-2007 10:13 AM

More snippets:

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"On questioning, the patient stated that she had had a habit of eating her hair for many years -- a condition called trichophagia," they wrote.
"It seemed like she'd been doing this for several years," Levy told CNN.

A year later, the pain and vomiting were gone, the patient had regained 20 pounds "and reports that she has stopped eating her hair."

Andoria

11-22-2007 10:34 AM

Better than eating someone else's hair - have to go to a lot of shady restaurants for that..

LJ	11-22-2007 11:10 AM

I thought maybe she was giving her 27 cats a daily bath.

Gravdigr

11-23-2007 12:02 AM

Ok. I'll be that guy...

Put some ketchup on it & call it a loaf. Let's eat. :yum: :vomitblu:

Kolbenfresser

11-23-2007 03:17 AM

Anybody who fixed a plugged sink knows how that nice-looking bezoar must smell. Thought about that? Poor Drs. Drs. Levy and Komanduri.

ViennaWaits

11-25-2007 12:25 PM

Congratulations! It's a hairball!

Ugh... I don't think I've ever been so disgusted.

ViennaWaits

11-25-2007 12:28 PM

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I thought maybe she was giving her 27 cats a daily bath.

:rotflol:

Ya think they prodded it in disbelief when they pulled it out? :stickpoke

Ooohhhhh that's NASTY. :greenface

Sheldonrs

11-25-2007 03:21 PM

Never substitute a hairbrush for a spagetti strainer.

ZenGum

11-25-2007 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Sheldonrs (Post 410069)

Never substitute a hairbrush for a spagetti strainer.

You've done this?

Sheldonrs

11-26-2007 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 410164)

You've done this?

Only for Angel Hair pasta. :-)

Shawnee123

11-26-2007 03:58 PM

<----has new ideas for dinner plans, then a bestselling self-help book

Quote:

She complained of a five-month history of pain and swelling in her abdomen, vomiting after eating and a 40-pound weight loss.

Spexxvet

11-26-2007 04:10 PM

Are they sure she wasn't pregnant with Cousin Itt's baby?

Sundae

11-26-2007 04:14 PM

Don't forget Shawnee, she ate at least 10lbs hair first. And the rest of the loss would have been due to not having any room in her stomach and vomiting after eating. You could achieve the same effect with two fingers...

Nope, it's not going to tempt me!

kerosene

11-28-2007 06:43 PM

I love the little pair of snippy scissors on top of it...as if in just one little snip it was gone. Makes for a good advertising campaign for the snippy scissors company.

xoxoxoBruce

11-28-2007 11:19 PM

Those are hemostats.... roachclips of the medical crowd.

smurfalicious

11-29-2007 07:31 AM

that's so gross. eating hair???? hasn't she heard of little debbie?

morie

11-29-2007 09:03 AM

it says is was black curly hair. sounds like pubic hair to me. she must be sucking the wrong thing.

Morie
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