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11-14-2010, 08:59 AM
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No Wonder I'm Bald!
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! LOL   ·  · |
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11-14-2010, 03:33 PM
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Re: No Wonder I'm Bald!
i dont want to be the party pooper here, but this all seems to clinical, there is no blood around the wound, the hair ball looks to clean considering its been in here guts, and the surgeons gloves are spotless, mmmm, am not convinced, am not taking anything away from the post.   |
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11-14-2010, 10:40 PM
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Re: No Wonder I'm Bald!
I can print you one from my medical book if you want, but that would be breaking the Law. It is a true condition. I will get some more pictures from other cases to add on her for you. OK? That will make everybody happy too. No hard feelings. |
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11-14-2010, 10:47 PM
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Re: No Wonder I'm Bald!
More pics. One of them is even from the medical site I'm with. Enjoy. Not sure why they are so small. New to all this. Can someone help me with making them bigger or something? How do I add to the original? Kelly. Help!  ·  ·  ·  · |
