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Thursday, August 12, 2010

1kg Hairball extracted from stomach of Argentine girl who likes eating hair

A hairball weighing 1kg (2lb) was found in the stomach of an Argentine girl who cannot stop eating her hair.

The girl suffers from tricophagy The girl suffers from tricophagy
The seven-year-old from Buenos Aires was at first thought to have had a cancerous growth but her illness turned to be tricophagy, a condition in which sufferers eat their locks.