Gastrointestinal symptoms after eating hair

Introduction The plucking mad patient pulls and eats his own hair called trichotillophagimania. The swallowed hair can cause abdominal pain, anorexia, constipation, formation of hairy stones or sulphite in the digestive tract, leading to intestinal obstruction, intestinal perforation, Complications such as intestinal bleeding, acute pancreatitis, and obstructive jaundice.

Cause

Cause:

Some people think that family dynamics may be the cause of ticks and the persistence of symptoms, such as parents temperament, negative, non-fulfilment of parental functions, no contact with children; parents or children hostile or severe health search is the family of female juvenile patients The main mode. Multiple fixation points in each stage of sexual psychology may be the pathological psychological cause of the disease. It has been reported that patients with plucking tend to have similar clinical manifestations with obsessive-compulsive disorder and a higher incidence of obsessive-compulsive disorder among first-degree relatives. At the same time, anti-depressants such as clomipramine and fluoride can be used to control the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive patients. Westing (fluoxetine) is equally effective in the treatment of plucking ticks, so plucking mites may be considered a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Pathogenesis: Some people think that family dynamics may be the cause of ticks and the persistence of symptoms, such as parents' temperament, negative, healthy search, not fulfilling the functions of parents, not contacting children; parents or children are hostile or severe, female teenagers The main mode of the patient's family. Multiple fixation points in each stage of sexual psychology may be the pathological psychological cause of the disease. It has been reported that patients with plucking tend to have similar clinical manifestations with obsessive-compulsive disorder and a higher incidence of obsessive-compulsive disorder among first-degree relatives. At the same time, anti-depressants such as clomipramine and fluoride can be used to control the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive patients. Westing (fluoxetine) is equally effective in the treatment of plucking ticks, so plucking mites may be considered a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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Ultrasound examination of gastrointestinal diseases

The patient removes his hair by hand or with iron clips and tweezers. The plucking site of the same patient is relatively fixed, but the plucking sites of different patients are different. More common in the top, frontal and occipital hair, but eyebrows, eyelashes, mane and pubic hair can also be affected. The hair that has been regenerated after being removed is still removed repeatedly. The scalp often has large hair loss, which is shaped like alopecia areata, but the boundaries are not uniform, and there are often hair loss and hair loss at the hair loss. Older patients deny their own plucking behavior. Hair plucking often occurs when you are in bed, reading, watching TV, or doing homework. Symptoms are sustainable or intermittent. Some patients use both hands to tear the hair or use scissors to cut the hair, which is called trichckryptomania. The patient pulls and eats his own hair, called trichotillophagimania. The swallowed hair can cause abdominal pain, anorexia, constipation, formation of hairy stones or crypts in the digestive tract, leading to intestinal obstruction, intestinal perforation, intestinal bleeding, Complications such as acute pancreatitis and obstructive jaundice. According to clinical manifestations, patients often use their hands or use iron clips and tweezers to force their hair to be removed.

Differential diagnosis

Gastrointestinal dysfunction, also known as gastrointestinal neurosis, is a general term for a group of gastrointestinal syndromes. Mental factors are the main causes of this disease, such as emotional stress, anxiety, difficulties in life and work, troubles, accidents. Unfortunately, it can interfere with the normal activities of high-grade nerves, which in turn can cause dysfunction of the gastrointestinal tract.

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