The chignon weighing nearly 5 kg lives in ... stomach

It is the consequence of her mistress - an 18-year-old girl - who is constantly . eating hair for the past 9 years as an indispensable habit every day.

New England Journal of Medicine last week published a story about a rare surgery in the history of the gastroenterologist of the University of Medicine Rush in Chicago, USA conducted: ' rescue 'Hair bun weighing nearly 5 kg is stuck in the patient's stomach.

Before hospitalization, the young girl experienced 5 months of abdominal pain. Her lower abdomen is always swollen like a pregnancy, vomiting continuously after eating. Less than half a year, her body had lost 20 kilograms.

The hair was big, heavy, and tangled together as if a wool roll was taken out of the girl's abdomen.(Photo: CNN).

The X-ray shows only a fuzzy block that covers the stomach, until it is done through endoscopy through the esophagus, which is more clearly defined 'which is a mess that obscures the entrance of the stomach. , making the sick person unable to receive food '.

The mystery is revealed when doctors directly hold scalpels. Everyone present at the surgery that day was silent because of the shock: falling out of the culprit was a large, heavy hair, entwined together like a wool roll. After removal, the size of 37.5 x 17.5 x 17.5 cm is measured and the weight of 5 kg is available.

'We were even more surprised when we heard the patients' report' about the source of the bun: she had a hobby of eating hair since she was 9 years old. Being able to fast and fast, but 'fasting hair' is definitely not ' - Dr. Ronald M. Levy, the direct operator of the operation.

5 days later, the girl quickly regained her health and ate a normal diet. One year later, all symptoms of abdominal pain and vomiting completely ceased, she gained 10 kg again. Fortunately, the ' hair-addicting ' disease did not abuse her anymore.

Hai Minh