If I swallowed a bunch of hair, would I throw up a hairball like a cat or would it digest in my stomach acid?

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If I swallowed a bunch of hair, would I throw up a hairball like a cat or would it digest in my stomach acid?

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  1. spartan420024 Avatar

    I have no idea, but that’s a great question!

  2. Fun-Development-6278 Avatar

    If you do it often enough or are unlucky it could form a trichobezoar. Which is a human hairball in your stomach. Sometimes having to be surgically removed.

  3. MadTapprr Avatar

    Maybe neither. Some people impulsively eat hair and end up having to have it surgically removed.

  4. Sdcreb Avatar

    I don’t know but you should try to avoid finding out

  5. ask-me-about-my-cats Avatar

    People who eat hair often clog their intestines with it and end up needing emergency surgery. So, that.

  6. fishstock Avatar

    You could get a hairball, but you won’t cough it up like a cat. It would get stuck in your intestinal tract, and you would have to go to a doctor or hospital for medicine to pass it or surgically remove it.

  7. Green-Ad-7917 Avatar

    Neither you’d have to have it surgically removed

  8. sexwiththebabysitter Avatar

    Hair isn’t digesting. Goes in as hair, comes out as hair. Or gets stuck.

  9. oldsoul777 Avatar

    I don’t know, it depends.Are you a cat?

  10. Greedy_Praline_7763 Avatar

    The body can’t digest hair. Good luck to you.

  11. KateCSays Avatar

    I see you have never had the pleasure of pooping out just the first few inches of a long hair that you then must pull the rest of the way free from your anus.

    Hair doesn’t digest in stomach acid, unfortunately.

    I wish I didn’t know this. 

  12. Raraavisalt434 Avatar

    It’s called a bezoar. Human hair is so strong it can slice through intestinal materials, mouth gums. Bezoars are also used in Pagan Craftwork. They need be surgically removed if they’re large enough. Through most of recorded history human hair was considered fatal if eaten and this is why.

  13. Primary-Border8536 Avatar

    You’re not a fucking cat, you donut.