A photo from open sources From a teenage girl who was becoming bad even after drinking a glass, doctors removed a huge lump hair blocking her digestive system. Ayperi Alekseeva from Kyrgyzstan for many years lifted hair from the carpet and ate them. Also, the girl had a habit of chewing the ends of her hair. When, finally, she sought medical help, doctors pulled from her stomach a ball of wool weighing almost 4 kilograms. how doctors say, without emergency surgery, an 18-year-old girl who suffered from severe dehydration and malnutrition, almost certainly would died. They add that having studied medical directories, they are not managed to find descriptions of cases of removal of such a large lump wool from the human stomach. The girl was taken to hospital in the city of Batken by their parents, who in the emergency room reported that their daughter is suffering from severe stomach pain. After X-ray examination, doctors realized that the cause of the disease is clogged and sent her to Bishkek for an emergency operation.
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Bahadir Bebezov, head of the surgical department at the hospital, where Iperi was treated, said: “Parents turned to hospital after it was noticed that the girl began rapidly lose weight and could not eat anything. By the time she came to us, she could not even drink water. We realized that we should act immediately. “As the surgeon notes, the girl’s stomach was so much clogged with hair and wool that a compressed lump fell out of there as soon as an incision was made in its wall. “Psychologically, in addition to the habit of lifting hair from the carpet and eating it, the young girl was completely normal and healthy, “he added. Afperi, who is currently recovering from surgery, will return home soon, while the girl promised that will never chew hair again, writes in a fresh issue of Mail Online Note that the case of Iperi is far from the only one. Many girls believe that biting off the ends of their hair is absolutely harmlessly. FederalPost previously spoke of a five-year-old Briton, which surgeons saved from a mysterious illness by pulling from it huge hair lump.
Alexey Slobodyan
Time