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 ...

The main symptoms of 'Rapunzel syndrome' include abdominal ... awareness of what it could have been.' Sophia began pulling out her hair when she was just a toddler. 'She would do it as she ...

It is usually noticed when the hair ball becomes too ... precedes the development of Rapunzel syndrome. It involves several symptoms, including repeatedly pulling out hair from the scalp, eyebrows ...

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 ...

While Rapunzel is known for her long ... About 20 per cent of people with trichotillomania eat their hair after pulling it out, causing hairball like blockages to clog up their digestive tract.

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 ...