It’s common knowledge that cats can occasionally cough up a rather unwelcome slimy hairball. Their incessant grooming and insatiable appetite for tiny, fluffy animals such as mice, means that sometimes there’s just a little too much hair in their stomach to digest and it reappears in the form of a sort of hairy vomit.
It is far less common, in fact largely unheard of, for a human to suffer from hairballs. We don’t lick ourselves clean for one matter, and our bodies are comparatively hairless. So, imagine a doctor’s surprise when they operated on a 19-year-old girl to remove some sort of blockage in her stomach when he found a 1.8 kg hairball lodged in there.
The girl had a bizarre habit of eating her own hair and bits of chalk while she was in lessons at school which overtime had formed a huge chalky dreadlock in her stomach. After refusing to eat or even drink for two days, her parents took her too the hospital where she was saved and warned from indulging in feline hair-gobbling tendencies ever again.
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