Huge bunch of hair found in the belly of the girl after an addiction to eating

This huge tuft of hair has been removed from a teenager's stomach.

The 16-year-old girl had accumulated half a kilogram after having chewed her locks for the last ten years.

The unnamed teenager, originally from Tomsk, Siberia, Russia, suffers from a syndrome called Rapunzel syndrome, which makes her eat her own hair.

The Surgeons at the Number Two Emergency Medicine Clinic were forced to operate when his condition began to deteriorate.

Chief Medical Officer Andrey Karavaev said that his gastrointestinal tract could be completely blocked and that his stomach was 80% covered with hair.

Humans are unable to digest hair, so they accumulate continuously.

The girl said that she felt much better after her operation ..

She can now undergo psychiatric treatment to cope with her illness.

The rare syndrome (also known as trichophagy) owes its name to Raunzel, a girl with long hair, in the fairy tale of the Grimm brothers.

Trichotillomania is a disorder badociated with hair pulling and the teenager complained of 'losing her hair'.

This was only the second case of Rapunzel syndrome observed by doctors in Tomsk in the last 25 years.