Abdominal pain can be caused by a number of things: digestion, flatulence, menstrual pain, cramps, but also stress. While most of these abdominal pains can be cured with natural remedies, there are others that require surgery...
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Discovery in the operation room
In 2019, this girl's mother was worried because her daughter had severe stomach pains for no explainable reason. What she didn't know, however, was that her daughter was secretly eating something that her mother has long since forbidden her to eat.
Feifei was eight years old and lived in China when she suddenly complained of severe stomach pains. She also kept throwing up. In this situation, any mother would do the same - go to the doctor.
But during the examinations, her doctors were unable to detect anything for the first time, reports The Mirror. But as the abdominal pain didn't subside, the doctors had no choice but to check in her belly immediately.
So the girl was taken into surgery. There, the surgeons make a terrible discovery that they have never seen before! A 1.5-kilogram bundle of hair was found in her abdomen.
Rapunzel syndrome
Feifei suffered from Rapunzel syndrome, which means that she had been eating her own curls since she was two years old. However, hair is indigestible for the body and can no longer be excreted, but instead accumulates.
Feifei's mum had tried everything to get her daughter out of this habit. But it's not that easy! Feifei made a solemn promise never to eat hair again, but a short time later she ended up needing surgery again.
This article has been translated from Gentside DE.
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The Mirror: Doctors treating girl, 8, with stomach pain find 3lb HAIRBALL in her stomach
