Kid’s Hair Chewing Almost Kills Her
Posted by JeanneSager at 7:15 AM on May 28, 2009
That’s it. I’m scheduling a haircut for my daughter.
After years of pulling it out of her mouth and saying “don’t chew on your hair,” I read this: a five-year-old in England swallowed so much of her own hair that it formed a rope that was constricting her organs.
Yes, her hair almost killed her.
Yum. Is it bad to say I chuckled a little at the fact that they called this Rapunzel syndrome (Rapunzel, Rapunzel, poop out your hair)? Come on, she survived! The tot, Millie Wallis, was suffering from stomach aches for months, and visits to the doctor and hospital turned up nothing for half a year. Finally an “internal scan” revealed a large foreign object in her stomach. They thought it was a tumor until they went in and found the rope of hair, stretching from the stomach down farther in the digestive tract, cutting through her bowel.
It’s a worst case scenario, I know. But it’s none too pleasant pulling hairs out of your kid’s butt because they’ve swallowed them and they’re just sort of hanging out there (sorry for the TMI), so my warning still stands – let them eat cake… not hair.
Image: Daily Mail
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