What happens when you swallow a hair?

in #science7 years ago

Well you are a nice hotel and you order a soup. A hair comes out what would you do pull out the hair and eat the soup and if you didn’t notice maybe you will eat it. Hairs are made up of a highly compact form of protein called keratin. Now our digestive system cannot digest hair so the most will happen is that you would vomit or have diarrhea. The cats swallow their hair all the time but before something happen they just vomit in the form of hair ball. But if you eat a lot of hair they would just stuck in the stomach which is known as Rapunzel syndrome the way of removing it is major surgery thanks for reading
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