2kg hair removed from woman’s stomach in Saudi Arabia
In medical rarity, the hair grew inside her abdomen, strangling intestines
Cairo: A medical team at a Saudi hospital had removed 2 kilograms of hair from a woman’s stomach, ending years of pain, media reported Monday.
The woman in her 20s had long suffered from excruciating pain, the cause of which was not clear until recently.
She underwent a massive clinical examination at the King Abdul Aziz Hospital in the western Saudi city of Taif that eventually specified the source of her pain, spokesman for the city’s health department Abdul Hadi Al Rabae told Okaz newspaper.
A strange object was seen recoiling inside the abdomen and forming a strangling wall of the intestines, the official added.
“The medical team decided on an urgent intervention to reach the strange object, which was found out to be a formation of interlocked hair weighing two kgs. The mass was forming around the wall of the intestines inside the abdominal cavity and was increasingly growing in a medical rarity,” the official.
The hair was removed, bringing long-elusive rest to the woman who is still under medical observation in the hospital, according to online newspaper Sabq.