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LAist: There's a Reason Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Hair
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Did you know there's a medical/psychological condition called trichophagia -- where someone is compelled to eat his or her own hair. Could this the next big celeb dysfunction? Move over meth and anorexia. Here comes hair eating to help with your weight gain...
An 18-year-old Chicago girl found out the hard way why eating your hair is bad for you. She was suffering from stomach pain, vomiting and losing 40 lbs. over a five-month period. She had a giant hairball blocking her stomach. We're not making this up. It was a case presented in the New England Journal of Medicine, not the National Enquirer. Here's how the Journal presented the case:
LAist: There's a Reason Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Hair
<img src="http://laist.com/attachments/la_christine/hairball.jpeg"/>
Did you know there's a medical/psychological condition called trichophagia -- where someone is compelled to eat his or her own hair. Could this the next big celeb dysfunction? Move over meth and anorexia. Here comes hair eating to help with your weight gain...
An 18-year-old Chicago girl found out the hard way why eating your hair is bad for you. She was suffering from stomach pain, vomiting and losing 40 lbs. over a five-month period. She had a giant hairball blocking her stomach. We're not making this up. It was a case presented in the New England Journal of Medicine, not the National Enquirer. Here's how the Journal presented the case:
