The girl, Kiara Bansal, who was suffering from a bizarre disorder called ‘trichophagiais - compulsive eating of hair, linked to ‘trichotillomania (hair-pulling) - was brought to the Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children in Parel, suffering from intense pain.Paed
In an unusual surgery, doctors removed a 100 gm hairball from the stomach of a 10-year-old girl from Dadar, who was habituated to plucking her hair and swallowing it.
Mumbai, March 29 (IANS) In an unusual surgery, doctors removed a 100 gm hairball from the stomach of a 10-year-old girl from Dadar, who was habituated to
The child was born in a nursing home at Saki Naka and was immediately shifted to the neonatal intensive care unit at Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children in Parel.
The child was born Afreen Khan and Sanaulla Khan, hailing from Tamil Nadu, in a private nursing home in Andheri east last December, but their joy was short-lived as the infant was found to suffer from aplasia cutis congenita , where the baby s scalp skin and skull bones were not fully developed in the central area of the head, leaving the underlying areas of the brain and its covering visible.To c