#trichobezoar

[canadianbfrb]

[medschoolgeek]

⚠️ Intraoperative view of the trichobezoar and its extraction through a gastrotomy

Trichobezoar is a rare pathology in which swallowed hairs accumulate in the stomach. Large amounts can thus accumulate over the years forming a hair ball.

[stellanslashgeode]

Started a new fic and the vocabulary words I had to look up to spell so far are trichobezoar and haboob. Make what you will of that.

[aajkesamachar2026]

ट्राइकोबेजोआर: नेरचौक मेडिकल कॉलेज में महिला के पेट से निकाला गया बालों का गुच्छा #Trichobezoar #Mental #Health #News #RightNews #HindiNews

ट्राइकोबेजोआर: नेरचौक मेडिकल कॉलेज में महिला के पेट से निकाला गया बालों का गुच्छा

[mizelaneus]

Surgeons remove 2.5-inch hairball from teen with rare Rapunzel syndrome

The teen didn’t return for follow-up. Instead, she planned to see a hypnotherapist.

Article has a click here for images. Yuck

[human--science]

trichobezoar

- when you like to eat all of your hair, they have to surgically remove it from your stomach.

[chilliconsiany]

feels a lot better not being able to constantly feel a trichobezoar in your stomach.

after having it removed though i’ve only just realized i’m significantly thinner than i thought i was

[excelxiors]

A girl in India just had a trichobezoar removed from her stomach.

Trichobezoars happen as a result of trichophagia, which is an impulse to eat hair (I suffer from this). And it's all okay, but something about the article I read it in REALLY upset me. They claimed that people who suffer from trichophagia are usually "emotionally disturbed or mentally disabled". Nice way to stigmatize a disorder that deserves just as much compassion as trichotillomania, but for some odd reason is always delegated to those who are deemed "mentally disabled".