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What happen if you swallow your hair? |
It is possible that stow away bacteria might try and hitch a ride on that hair leading to an upset stomach or diarrhea but large amounts of hair will get stuck in your stomach and in the most extreme cases, the tail of the hairball can reach down into the small intestine, a condition known as Rapunzel syndrome. |
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How can we take out a hairball from our stomach? |
We can’t take it out by the simple way but we can take out by surgery. |
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What is the name of condition when your hairball tail reach down to your intestine? |
Rapunzel Syndrome |
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What made a hair up? |
It's made up of a densely packed protein called keratin. |
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How can cats take out their hairballs? |
They can vomit them up, before they get too bad. |
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What is the hairball in your body called? |
A Trichobezoar |
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What is trichophagia? |
A compulsion to eat hair. |
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Dense (Adj) |
Having parts that areclose together so that it is difficult to go or see through. |
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Compulsion (N) |
A very strong feeling ofwanting to do something repeatedly that is difficult to control. |
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Clump (N) |
a solid mass of somethingsuch as soil. |
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Keratin (N) |
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Why do catsalways lick? |
Because they clean up themselves. |
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Should you eat lots of hair? |
No, we should not eat lots of hair. Because it will be stuck in your stomach. And the doctor must open our digestive tract for pulling out hair. |
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Whip up(V) |
to make food or meal veryquickly and easily. (informal) |