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Rugby ball-sized hairball found in teen's stomach after she complained of feeling sick

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A schoolgirl was shocked to discover she had a huge hairball in her stomach after complaining about feeling sick. Melissa Williams, 13, ate her own hair whenever she felt anxious and ended up with a rugby ball-sized mass in her stomach.

The tangled hair had to be cut into four sections by doctors before they could remove each one, the Liverpool Echo reported.

In a bid to raise awareness, the teenager's family is speaking out about her condition, known as Rapunzel Syndrome.The hairball, which measured between eight and 10cm in diameter, was removed in October last year.Mum Jackie Williams, 40, and dad, Gary Jones, 47, didn’t know anything was wrong until Melissa, from Liverpool, started complaining of severe stomach pains.Jackie explained she took her daughter to and from the GP over the course of a year but "carried on persisting" when they told her that Melissa's problems were due to anxiety.She told The ECHO: "She was getting really badly bullied at school for three years and when she would get anxious she would pull out her own hair and eat it."The first things we noticed were that she was feeling and being sick, had poor appetite and lost about one stone in weight.

I thought she had an eating disorder because she wasn't eating."She started getting sent home from school a lot and asking not to go in because she felt sick, but because it was on the same day every week I thought it was a lesson she didn't like."We were to and from the doctors about half a dozen times over the year but we carried on persisting."The pain got significantly worse over a two week period and Jackie decided to take Melissa to Alder Hey Children's Hospital.Once at the hospital, doctors could feel Melissa's stomach was tender.

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