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After an emergency operation, doctors managed to pull out the hairball weighing almost 4 kilograms, saying without emergency surgery the girl would have almost certainly died.
Ayperi Alekseeva, aged 18, had complained of severe stomach pains and was brought to the hospital in the town of Batken in south-western Kyrgyzstan’s Batken Province by her parents.
After X-rays, doctors realised there was a blockage and decided she needed an operation.
The hospital’s senior professor of surgery, Bahadir Bebezov, and his colleague, associate professor Tilek Umetaliev, said they had never heard of such a large hairball despite searching through 50 years of medical records.
Life or death ... Without emergency surgery the girl who was badly dehydrated and malnourished would almost certainly have died.
Professor Bebezov said: “The parents brought her in after she started losing weight, and she couldn’t eat anything. By the time we got her she could not even drink water. We realised we needed to operate immediately.
“It was actually the only alternative, nothing else would solve the problem. In fact her stomach was so badly swollen from hair and bits of wool from the carpet that it literally just oozed out soon as the wall of the stomach was cut.
“Psychologically apart from a habit of picking up hair from the carpet and eating it the young girl was perfectly normal and healthy. She also chewed the tips of her hair.”
He added that she had promised never to chew her hair in the future and was recovering well from the operation.
Source: news.com.au
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