Look, I get it. Back in the ’90s, I had Kurt Cobain skater hair, which I chewed out of habit whenever I got bored. My parents ultimately made me get a haircut, and even though I was angry at the time, because conformity, it might’ve kept me out of the E.R. Thanks, Mom and Dad!
No such luck for 18-year-old Ayperi Alekseeva of Kyrgyzstan. She went to doctors complaining that she couldn’t manage to eat or drink anything, not even water, reports the Telegraph. It led to weight loss and malnutrition, and could’ve been fatal, but doctors performed an X-ray and discovered what was wrong: She had nine pounds of hair stuck in her digestive tract.
“We realized we needed to operate immediately,” Bahadir Bebezov of Bishkek Hospital told reporters. “In fact, her stomach was so badly swollen from hair…that it literally just oozed out soon as the wall of the stomach was cut.”
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The teenager reportedly ate hair from her head (like freshly picked herbs from a well-tended garden) along with hair from the wool carpet of her family’s home (like chestnuts harvested after falling from their branches…how seasonally festive!).
If you think that’s gross, well, yeah, it is — but it’s not unprecedented. This compulsive syndrome has a name, “trichophagia,” and in 2007 U.S. doctors reported finding an even larger, 10-pound hairball inside the stomach of an American 18-year-old. We’re #1! We’re #1!
Alekseeva is expected to be OK as long as she sticks to actual food. If you want to see a couple super disgusting photos of the extracted, bloody locks, check ‘em out here, though you may lose your lunch.
Doctors Removed A Nine-Pound Hairball From This Girl’s Stomach
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