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A Kyrgyzstan teen who went to a hospital complaining she couldn’t eat or drink for a few days discovered a huge hairball blocking her digestive system.
Massive 9lbs hairball removed from teenager's stomach http://t.co/vAy7HuJ8wj pic.twitter.com/JEoh41rnX8
— Metro (@MetroUK) September 29, 2014
As for how it got there, it seems Alekseeva liked to chew the ends of her hair and also eat hair she picked up from the floor; she promised doctors she would break those habits.
“Her stomach was so badly swollen from hair and bits of wool from the carpet that it literally just oozed out soon as the wall of the stomach was cut,” says one of her doctors, who adds that the hairball may be the largest one ever removed from a person.
Her doctors say she would have died of dehydration or malnourishment without the surgery, Metro reports.
Agencies/Canadajournal
