A doctor in China discovered a kilogram of hairball in a child's stomach after she swallowed human hair to get her parents' attention. , the nine-year-old girl experienced nausea and vomiting, prompting her to be taken to a local hospital in Jiangsu province.
Due to the girl's young age and narrow esophagus, the hairball removal procedure took ten hours, according to Zhao Chengguang, the gastroenterologist in charge of the child's case."The hair was mixed with food and gastric juice inside the stomach and had formed a globular shape," Zhao said.The doctors also discovered that the girl was swallowing hair to get her parents' attention.