Delhi: Doctors remove 1.16-kg hairball from student's stomach after 11 years of hair-eating
Sep 04, 2026
Doctors at Manipal Hospital Dwarka in Delhi successfully removed a giant 1.16-kg, J-shaped hairball from the stomach of a 20-year-old female student who had been consuming strands of her own hair for nearly 11 years, a behaviour medically known as trichophagia.