Teenage Girl With "Rapunzel Syndrome" Has Massive 9-Pound Hairball Removed From Stomach

A teenage girl from Kyrgyzstan found it hard to stomach the truth when X-rays revealed the cause of her severe stomach pains, after months of not being able to eat or even drink a glass of water without getting sick. Eighteen-year-old Aypero Alekseeva discovered her inability to properly eat or drink was due to a massive 9-pound hairball blocking her digestive system after years of eating hair from the carpet and chewing the tips of her own hair. After an emergency surgery, surgeons at Bishkek Hospital in the country’s capital for surgery successfully removed the hairball that otherwise would’ve led to her death.

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