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Shocking: 1kg of hair extracted from stomach of Argentine girl who likes eating hair

12 August 2010 [13:15] - TODAY.AZ
A hairball weighing 1kg (2lb) was found in the stomach of an Argentine girl who cannot stop eating her hair. The seven-year-old from Buenos Aires was at first thought to have had a cancerous growth but her illness turned to be tricophagy, a condition in which sufferers eat their locks.


/Metro.co.uk/
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