Lucknow: Lump of hair weighing around 2kg removed from teenager's stomach

A large lump of hair weighing around 2 kg was recovered from the stomach of a 17-year old girl at Lucknow's Balrampur Hospital. Gastro-surgeon Dr SR Samadder performed the operation and said that the girl suffered from the rare disease of Trichobezoar in which the patients eat their own hair by plucking it.

A large lump of hair weighing around 2 kg was recovered from the stomach of a 17-year old girl at Lucknow's Balrampur Hospital. Gastro-surgeon Dr SR Samadder performed the operation and said that the girl suffered from the rare disease of Trichobezoar in which the patients eat their own hair by plucking it. September 04, 2021 at 07:04AM https://ift.tt/3zFfjUt