Trichophagia is a mental health condition where you compulsively pull out your own hair.

Trichophagia is a mental health condition where you compulsively pull out your own hair.

In Bareilly, doctors have removed 2 kg of human hair from the stomach of a 21 year old woman. Who was eating it for the last 16 years. It is said that whenever the woman got a chance, she would secretly pluck hair and eat it. In the language of medical science, it is known as trichophagia or Rapunzel syndrome. This is a mental disorder in which the patient starts eating his own hair. The Karagaina resident was diagnosed with the disease on September 20 when a hair mass was…

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