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Did you know there is a condition called trichophagia.That is when someone likes to eat his/her HAIR..bleah..

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

She complained about pain and swelling in her abdomen, vomiting after eating and a 40-pound weight loss.Docotors did a scan and found out that large mass in her stomach,then they did an endoscopy and found out 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.A bezoar is a hairball.

“On questioning, the patient stated that she had had a habit of eating her hair for many years.”

“It seemed like she’d been doing this for several years,” Levy told CNN.

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.I will not post here the image of her”giant hairball” is horrible.