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Doctors untangle the strange case of the giant hairball
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| 11/22/07
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Posted on 11/22/2007 4:18:09 PM PST by a real Sheila
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica
Does this mean that every single hair we accidentally eat is slowly creating a hairball in our guts? Ewww!
To: armymarinemom
Asparagus, celery, cornsilk and rhubarb can contribute to bezoars too.
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posted on
11/22/2007 4:55:44 PM PST
by
McLynnan
To: visualops
correction, a big HAIRY turd.
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posted on
11/22/2007 4:56:53 PM PST
by
a real Sheila
(stop hillary NOW!)
To: armymarinemom
armymarinemom wrote: “MEAT BEZOARS (!?!) used to be treated first with Adolfs meat tenderizer which often worked bypassing need for surgery.”
Dare I ask?
To: a real Sheila
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posted on
11/22/2007 5:02:21 PM PST
by
hophead
("Enjoy Every Sandwich" WZ)
To: CitizenUSA
A half a cup of Drano after every meal will help avoid this.
To: Fawn
“I keep fresh grass available for my cats.”
I remember when ‘cats’ and ‘grass’ had whole different meanings.
In the above sentence, you would have been a great friend.
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posted on
11/22/2007 5:05:23 PM PST
by
hophead
("Enjoy Every Sandwich" WZ)
To: CitizenUSA
Hair doesn’t dissolve in stomach acids. You need to eat a lot of fiber/roughage to actually bind it and push it through you.
To: hophead
To: a real Sheila
Has the hair been DNA tested? Does it, perhaps, contain a history of her entire life, kind of like tree rings?
To: HeartlandOfAmerica
I’ve been chewing my fingernails my whole life, same composition...
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posted on
11/22/2007 5:12:19 PM PST
by
sinanju
To: A knight without armor
“Keratins are a family of fibrous structural proteins; tough and insoluble, they form the hard but nonmineralized structures found in reptiles, birds, amphibians and mammals. They are rivaled as biological materials in toughness only by chitin.”
It is insoluble...
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posted on
11/22/2007 5:15:19 PM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
(TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
To: Fawn
My hounds eat a little bit of grass every day...Maybe for the same reason...
Sure does the trick.
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posted on
11/22/2007 5:16:23 PM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
(TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
To: a real Sheila
Hairball: The other white meat.
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posted on
11/22/2007 5:16:50 PM PST
by
Redcloak
(This post certified 100% Hillary-free. um... Never mind.)
To: armymarinemom
We used to use adolphs or coke to unclog feeding tubes.
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posted on
11/22/2007 5:16:59 PM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
(TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
To: sockmonkey; Publius
A bezoar plays an important part in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Darn, you beat me to it. I just thought it was something from a goat's stomach made up for the HP books. I had no idea a bezoar was real.
Shouldn't that be Hairy Potter? ;) (groan) lol
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posted on
11/22/2007 5:23:01 PM PST
by
mkjessup
To: secretagent
Correct. My wife could shave herself bald, and I'd still be digging something out of the trap that looks like a dead rat on a weekly basis. I know it's time when the water starts coming up to my ankles.
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posted on
11/22/2007 5:32:07 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(Waterboarding the Left every chance I get.)
To: Redcloak
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posted on
11/22/2007 6:01:20 PM PST
by
skimbell
To: a real Sheila
This thread is worthless without pictures!
To: a real Sheila
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posted on
11/22/2007 6:27:29 PM PST
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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