November 22, 2007: Massive hair ball

ZenGum · 11-22-2007, 10:00 AM

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From CNN.

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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.

And that's the only thing I can't edit.

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

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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.

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.

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

Ooohhhhh that's NASTY.

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

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

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

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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?

11-22-2007, 10:04 AM	#2
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Oh bugger I forgot to title the thread properly. And that's the only thing I can't edit. 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! __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl. Last edited by ZenGum; 11-22-2007 at 11:15 AM.

11-22-2007, 10:09 AM	#3
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I think I'd rather be poisoned than eat that. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

11-22-2007, 10:34 AM	#5
Andoria omg no dialtone Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Philadelphia, PA. Posts: 14	Better than eating someone else's hair - have to go to a lot of shady restaurants for that.. __________________ I play MMOs. I need a signature which is deep, thought provoking, and devours bandwidth with the voracity of rabid weasels. It is also, by nature, vaguely sad with a tinge of my obvious internal, unfathomable loneliness. Like this, , but at 1.3megs packed into 2 by 6 inches. Animated.

11-25-2007, 12:25 PM	#9
ViennaWaits That's some bad hat, Harry. Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Ohio Posts: 83	Congratulations! It's a hairball! Ugh... I don't think I've ever been so disgusted. __________________ There is no smoking on this flight, but you can light up whatever you like once we land in Jamaica.

11-25-2007, 03:21 PM	#11
Sheldonrs Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,412	Never substitute a hairbrush for a spagetti strainer. __________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you.

11-22-2007, 11:10 AM	#6
LJ i am myself Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: via blackberry, maybe Posts: 750	I thought maybe she was giving her 27 cats a daily bath.

11-23-2007, 12:02 AM	#7
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Ok. I'll be that guy... Put some ketchup on it & call it a loaf. Let's eat.

11-23-2007, 03:17 AM	#8
Kolbenfresser Wiseacre Emeritus Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Good old Germany Posts: 35	Anybody who fixed a plugged sink knows how that nice-looking bezoar must smell. Thought about that? Poor Drs. Drs. Levy and Komanduri.

11-26-2007, 04:10 PM	#15
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	Are they sure she wasn't pregnant with Cousin Itt's baby? __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

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