2022/09/04
12:10 am
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In Saudi Arabia, the conservative country, a strange and shocking medical incident occurred to society, as a medical team at Al-Madina Al-Noura General Hospital successfully managed to extract a mass of hair weighing two and a half kilograms from the stomach of a 17-year-old girl.
In detail, the hair mass accumulated in the girl’s stomach over several years, and the girl was hospitalized after suffering severe abdominal pain, and she underwent a delicate surgery to extract the mass.
For his part, the official speech to the health of Al-Dinah Al-Munawwarah, “Moayad Abu Anaq”, explained to the Okaz newspaper, Al-Hiliya. that the girl, who is still a student in the study, came to the hospital suffering from severe abdominal pains to the point where she could not stand eating and drinking; After conducting the necessary medical examinations, it was found that there was a blockage in the stomach cavity of the girl. Where it was decided to perform an operation to discover the cause of the blockage.
He added that she had the operation successfully; And it turns out there is a mass of hair inside the stomach. And that the obstruction was extending from the cardia opening at the top of the instrument and the right of the pyloric aperture leading to the duodenum, and the mass was extracted in a cylindrical shape.
Its diameter is 9 cm and its length is 48 cm. The official statement of the Health of Al-Dinah Al-Munawwarah indicated that the patient left the hospital after recovering completely. And medical sources in the hospital pointed out an explanation for the strange incident of the sick girl; This case is considered one of the rare cases, and the main cause is attributed to a psychological condition that forces the patient to eat his hair for many years.