Doctors in India remove 1kg of hair from girl's stomach!!!

When this 13-year-old patient walked in the hospital complaining of abdominal pain and vomiting, doctors thought that she was suffering from some routine stomach disorder. Post-diagnosis, the rare ailment left the doctors stumped. Her reports revealed that the patient had a big lump of hair in her stomach measuring 50 cm.

What left the doctors surprised was that it was an extremely rare condition where the patient with Rapunzel Syndrome', a disorder where patient gets into the habit of consuming hair. This syndrome is usually observed in girls below 15 years and in such cases the patient has to be operated upon to remove the lump from the stomach. More...

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