What is Trichotillomania-Hair-Pulling
Trichotillomania (TTM) or "trich" is an impulse control disorder characterised by the repeated urge to pull out scalp hair, eyelashes, beard hair, nose hair, pubic hair, eyebrows o...
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The effects of trichotillomania can be very serious.
Associated feelings of shame may result in avoidance of social situations. Chewing hair can result in dental erosion; eating hair (trichophagia) may result in hairballs (trichobezoars) becoming lodged in the stomach or large intestine, which can lead to anemia, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, hematemesis (vomiting blood), or bowel obstruction or perforation. " |
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Hey Crzychick, thanks for the post....have you had any of these happen to you? I have been eating my hair for 30 years and have yet to experience any of this....there was even a post on the discussion board a while back and no one seemed to have had any trouble as a result of eating their hair. Just wondering..... 
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I'm a lash/brow puller
No I don't eat mine. I just ran across the info while researching Trich. There have also been reports of ppl dying from blockage from the hairballs (sounds so weird, makes me think of a cat)
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woow i went thru the fear that i had a hair ball , because i kept getting bloaded and had abdominal pains ... so after an endoscopy and several tests , i did nt have any , and i stopped eating as much , since i got scared from the surgery :) but yes the hair get in my gums :( it hurt
you should tell your dentist, all hair get in the gums ...
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This link was in a post on the regular discussion area. Thought seeing a trichobezoar (hairball) might make it a bit more "real" to everyone.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/conten...
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My son pulls his hair,brows and lashes and I've seen him put the hair n his mouth. The dr.said that it would not harm him unless it was really long hair and he ate huge amounts of it daily
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