or the urge to pull out hair from the scalp. These conditions usually go hand in hand. If you happen to have one or both conditions, they’re more likely to cause Rapunzel syndrome. Long hair has ...

It’s a symptom of Rapunzel syndrome, which the National Library of Medicine explains is “found in patients with a history of psychiatric disorders, trichotillomania (habit of hair pulling ...

Rapunzel Syndrome is often diagnosed in people having some psychiatric conditions like trichophagia and trichotillomania where the affected person has an uncontrollable urge to pull hair and in ...

A YOUNG girl with 'Rapunzel syndrome' had to undergo a four-hour operation to remove a huge hairball that was "eating through her stomach". Sophia Goss began pulling out her hair and chewing on it ...

And this led them to one of the rarest and unexpected possibilities: Rapunzel syndrome ... a repetitive behavior disorder marked by hair pulling. Sometimes, the disorder can be diagnosed by ...

Doctors in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, successfully removed around 2 kg of human hair from the stomach of a 21-year-old woman, who had been eating her hair for the past 16 years whenever she got the ...

A young girl with Rapunzel Syndrome had to undergo a four-hour operation to remove a huge hairball "eating through her stomach". Sophia Goss began pulling out her hair and chewing on it when she ...