Extracting 3 kilos of hair from the stomach of an Egyptian young man, and the reason surprised the doctor

A rare case witnessed by Matrouh Governorate in a young man (27 years old), who, for psychological reasons, used to eat hair from different parts of his body, especially his mustache, until his stomach formed a strong and cohesive pile of hair, weighing 3 kilograms, which caused him pain that the young man suffered for several years.

Dr. Tariq Al-Kaseh, consultant general of surgery, and the doctor treating the young man, confirmed to Al-Watan newspaper that the case is very rare, and he did not see anything like it in Egypt, although he worked for nearly 40 years as a surgeon.

He added: “The patient came for examination when he was young, and I started following up on the case, on the grounds that it was a tumor in the abdomen, because the TV radiographs confirmed this, but with the follow-up, I noticed the presence of voids in places on his body, especially the chin, mustache, and the chest area, and soon it became clear to me that The young man, for psychological reasons, has been eating his hair for ten years, which caused a large mass of hair to form inside his stomach, which was causing him severe and continuous pain.

The doctor added that in this case, surgical intervention was the only solution, noting that the operation lasted about 3 hours, and resulted in the extraction of a hair mass of three kilograms.

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