Doctors find a 5 foot long hairball in a stomach of a girl with an addiction of eating her own hair

An Indian Girl,Kavita Kumari was taken to a hospital to seek medical assistance after complaining of having severe abdominal pain. The Doctors gave her medicine to relieve abdominal pain, but she continued to cry of pain.

After a thorough check up Doctors finally detected the cause of this unusual complaint and everybody was shocked as to what they find out!

15 years old Kavita Kumari has an addiction of eating her own hair.The addiction has gotten so bad that sometimes she tries to eat her classmate’s hair and they are now very scared to sit next to her.

The fact that she wants to eat someone elses hair means that she has gotten so used to the taste of hair and hence decreasing her appetite for real food.

Hair found in Kavita Kumari’s stomach

It was her father who decided to take her to the hospital which led to the doctors discovering a five foot long hairball crumpled in her stomach.

Kavita underwent some tests, and the doctors confirmed that she was malnourished and very weak because of not eating the right food.

Kavita is now being given some medical treatments to assure her recovery after her surgery. The Doctors have asked her to seek counselling so as she could work on her psychological disorder.

Dr Lal Bahadur Sidharth, a gastro and laproscopic surgeon at the hospital, said: ‘Kavita had come to us with complaints of extreme pain in the stomach.

‘She was in a very serious condition, malnourished and very weak. She was barely able to stand on her own.’

He added: ‘We performed an endoscopy on her which revealed she had hairball inside her stomach.’

The team went on to diagnose Kavita with trichotillomania the psychological condition in which a person has an urge to pull hair and warned her parents her condition was so bad she might not survive surgery.

Despite knowing the hairball was there, doctors were astonished to discover during the two hour operation that it was more than five feet long.

‘I didn’t expect the hairball to be this big,’ said Dr Bahadur Sidharth. ‘I had never seen such a case before.’

Dr Lal Bahadur Sidharth, a gastro and laproscopic surgeon who operated on Kavita, said: ‘I didn’t expect the hairball to be this big. ‘I had never seen such a case before’

Despite this, the teenager’s mother Phool Devi, 32, is still unable to accept her daughter has the psychological disorder.

She said: ‘She was so weak that we had assumed she would not survive another day.

‘We did not know she was in the habit of eating hair. Though I noticed many times that she plucked couple of strands from my hair and even her classmates told me she did the same with them.

‘But I never took it seriously as I thought she was plucking their hair to tease them. I had no idea she was apparently eating hair.’

She added that she had become concerned at her daughter’s lack of appetite.

‘We noticed she had not been eating properly and whatever she ate, she would just throw it up.

‘She would also complain of severe abdominal pain and was even unable to digest water.

‘She was getting weaker with each passing day. We had taken her to several local doctors but none could find out the real problem.

‘I am so thankful to the doctors for saving her life.’

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