When Chandan Baria was first at the Emergency Room of course she was complaining of an upset stomach. The doctors had no idea what they would find. When they did some tests to find out what was wrong the reason her stomach hurt was because there was a 20 inch, 2.2 pound wad of hair in her stomach! No wonder her stomach hurt. I’m guessing that you are wondering how it got there. Well, Chandan suffers from Rapunzel syndrome, or trichotillomania, which means she has a tendency to pull her hair out and then eat it. The condition usually occurs in teenage girls. Doctors had to surgically remove the clump. “We will be giving some psychiatric treatment to her in order to ensure that she does not start consuming hair again,” pediatrician Dr. Samir Brahmbhatt told the newspaper.

When you get a stomach ache make sure it is not because you are eating your hair. Just kidding!

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