Siti
Nasrah Binti Abdullah
A four-year-old girl, Siti
Nasrah Binti Abdullah from Sandakan, Sabah, was found to have the rare disorder
and was operated on by a team of surgeons who removed 800 grams of hair from
her stomach at the Duchess of Kent Hospital here on December 24 last year.
The girl’s grandmother, in
her 50s, told that she never knew her granddaughter was suffering from the
disorder until she was informed of the discovery of a hairball in the latter’s
stomach.The grandmother took her pale looking girl to the hospital in December
after noticing the girl’s stomach was swollen.
According to Dr Vinod
Kumar, a consultant surgeon at the Duchess of Kent Hospital’s Surgical
Department, the girl was malnourished and suffering from abdominal pain when
she was brought to the hospital. The 800-gram hairball.
“She was brought in with a
swollen abdomen. While she was undergoing an ultrasound imaging and
Computerized Tomography (CT) scan, we found a foreign mass in her stomach. The
girl later underwent an oesophago-gastric-duodeno-scopy (OGDS) procedure.
“The hair accumulated in
the gastrointestinal tract, causing symptoms such as indigestion and abdominal
pain.
“If the hairball was small,
non-invasive methods could be used to remove it. However, we found that the
hairball was large and had to be surgically removed,” he said.
Looking at the large
extracted hairball intertwined like a bird’s nest, it would seem that the girl
had been eating her hair bit by bit for a long time.
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