Doctors remove 3.65kg hairball from 12-year-old's stomach!

• The girl suffered from extreme stomach pain and nausea.

Doctors in Kazakhstan removed a hairball weighing about 3.5kilograms from the stomach of a 12-year-old girl through a surgery.

The girl was operated at the Mangystau Regional Children's Hospital in the city of Aktau, in south-western Kazakhstan's Mangystau region where a hairball measuring 35cm by 13cm and centimetres by 13 centimetres and weighing 3.65kg was removed from her body.Daily Mirror reported that the girl suffered from severe stomach pain and nausea. She also remained skinny.

Head of the surgical department of the hospital, Sultanbek Tumashev, said, "the ball took up almost all of the girl's stomach and had even forced it to expand, but despite the increased size, the hair ball still left very little space for food."

"Due to her low protein level and swollen legs, doctors needed two days to prepare the girl for surgery."

The girl had the habit of chewing her hair which developed the complication.

Doctors say she is out of danger and recovering.