"RAPUNZEL SYNDROME"

I was searching on internet and last day I found a new which talks about "Rapunzel Syndrome". On these lines James Gallagher, the writer of the new, explained a case of a woman who suffered the syndrome. 

Rapunzel desease have two elements which all te patients with Rapunzel Syndrome suffer. This elements are: trichotillomania, the irresistible urge to pull out hair, and the trichophagia the compulsively eating hair. 

The woman's case which James Gallagher explain is awesome. The woman get to have a hairball of 15 cm in her stomach. She gave up to eat and lost fifteen libras of weight. She required medical aid urgently and doctors extracted from her stomach and intestine a giant hairball.

According to the investigation that carried out James Gallagher, there have only been 88 cases of this syndrome and most of them occur in girls less than ten years.

I've never heard of this desease but is amazing that women or children tear their hairs and then eat them. I don't know if it is a falsehood or if it is true, but if it's certain it's extremely dangerous for the body system. So, we've to pay attention if we see someone eating their hair and explained them the consequences because most of us don't know what it is this new desease.

Besides, I had learned the Rapunzel Syndrome in this article I had discovered new words as pluck, swell, densely, trichotillomania and trichophagia.