Nena had a stomach ache and the surgeons took something disgusting from her | the Chronicle

Surgeons of the Children’s Clinical Hospital of the Russian Republic of Buryatia, they extracted a trichobezoar from the stomach of a 12 year old girl, that is, an accumulation of hair consumed by a person or an animal, informed the medical establishment via its account in Instagram.

For a long time, the little She was suffering from dull and recurring abdominal pain, while recently she also started to suffer from vomiting and loss of appetite.

Doctors performed an endoscopic scan, looking for an obstruction in the digestive tract that began in the lower part of the esophagus. Then, an x-ray image revealed the presence of a tumor-like mass.

The doctors immediately operated on the patient and managed to remove the foreign body, which it was at least six inches long and looked like a wool felt boot.

It is detailed that the minor went through the postoperative period without complications and has already been released.

The doctors who carried out the intervention assure that he had never encountered a trichobezoar of such proportions in all his professional practice. Moreover, they urged parents to pay more attention to their children’s bad habits to avoid such kind of problems.