No Wonder I'm Bald 2. NEW, BIG Pics

BlabberBigMouth · #1 ● 11-22-2010, 05:33 AM

Sorry tried this before and wanted to add pictures, but being new at this, I stuffed it up.
So here it is again.

Below is a report of a girl suffering Trichobezoar. A condition where the person actually eats their own hair.
As hair is one of the things that can NOT be digested, the hair remains in the gut. Having more added to it over time.
It usally comes to professionals attention only once the hairball has grown so big that it fills, and takes on as you will see, the shape of the stomach, leaving no room for food.

An 18-year-old woman in Illinois who once had a habit of eating her hair - a condition called trichophagia -had a 4.5 kg trichobezoar (hairball) removed from the stomach.

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 occluding nearly the entire stomach," wrote Drs. Ronald M. Levy and Srinadh Komanduri, gastroenterologists at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.

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.

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

So think twice before you go and clean your cats hair with your tongue! LOL

PS: IF anybody wants any background stories of these pics I can get them.