Talk:Nasal hair

message: Grow a bushy mustache. Needs references, though.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.238.108.50 (talk) 19:16, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Good advice

message: Here's Nasal hair. There's Earwax. But where's Ear hair? Ewlyahoocom 15:21, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Can always create it.  There's an old Straight Dope column which deals with the topic, mostly on ear hair.  I get the impression he basically browsed a couple medical texts and didn't understand them. --71.192.117.127 01:09, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ear hair? 

message: I have been told that you should never remove nose hair by tweezing/pulling because of the possibility of serious infection.  You should only trim nose hair.  
: I think this is an important question.  On the article about Nose-picking it mentions that serious infection can occur (although very rare).  I would assume this is worse with picking nose hair. --206.15.232.115 (talk) 21:17, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In the german WIKIPEDIA we recently disuccessed this and collected some clinical facts. It's true the blood coming from the nose's venes rapidly joins with that coming from the brain. Some (mostly one american doctor) assumes that this may lead to an increased risk regarding possible inflowmation. Taking into account, that blood runs from the venes away towards the heart in the first place, this seems to be over rated. Any bacteria intruding from the nose will run through the heart and into the arterial system and can aproach the brain anyway. It will thus be quicker than any bacteria moving towards the brain directly against the blood stream. So they are no more dangerous, than coming from any other open wound at the body. The point is only that the nose generally has lot of dangerous bacteria anyway, similar to the situation in the mouth. So we can assume that any violation of the nose's inner skin might be an issue, although there are doctors who recommend to eat the nose's secretisms regurlarly in order to train the immune system. Summarizing, cuts of the inner nose's skin shall be avoided, so the automatic trimmers might be dangerous too, if not applied carefully. Pulling out the hairs might be a little risk especially, when using desinfection before. Out result was that infection liquids should be applied in any case when trimming the hair. Also the instruments should, like it is done when performing nose surgery. You may put this information to the article as you want.  Dr. T.R. medical instuctur, germay. 46.88.171.18 (talk) 00:29, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing nose hair 

message: : In the german WIKIPEDIA we recently disuccessed this and collected some clinical facts. It's true the blood coming from the nose's venes rapidly joins with that coming from the brain. Some (mostly one american doctor) assumes that this may lead to an increased risk regarding possible inflowmation. Taking into account, that blood runs from the venes away towards the heart in the first place, this seems to be over rated. Any bacteria intruding from the nose will run through the heart and into the arterial system and can aproach the brain anyway. It will thus be quicker than any bacteria moving towards the brain directly against the blood stream. So they are no more dangerous, than coming from any other open wound at the body. The point is only that the nose generally has lot of dangerous bacteria anyway, similar to the situation in the mouth. So we can assume that any violation of the nose's inner skin might be an issue, although there are doctors who recommend to eat the nose's secretisms regurlarly in order to train the immune system. Summarizing, cuts of the inner nose's skin shall be avoided, so the automatic trimmers might be dangerous too, if not applied carefully. Pulling out the hairs might be a little risk especially, when using desinfection before. Out result was that infection liquids should be applied in any case when trimming the hair. Also the instruments should, like it is done when performing nose surgery. You may put this information to the article as you want.  Dr. T.R. medical instuctur, germay. 46.88.171.18 (talk) 00:29, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Risks when pulling out nose hair 

message: Does anybody know the replacement rate for nose hair?  It seems like I lose it more easily than other hair (which would make sense, as it's in a very dirty part of the body you'd want to replace it as quickly as possible, lose the germs with the hair), yet the amount (fortunately small though I still don't like it) never seems to diminish.  Or maybe it's just more loosely attatched. --71.192.117.127 01:09, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replacement rate 

message: This talk page is for discussions about the article ONLY. It is not for discussions about your personal health. ask123 18:22, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talk Page Content 

message: The questions refer to the sections that required expansion and were:
*What sizes of particle do nose hairs filter?
*Are there long vs. short nose hairs in different people?
*Is it the same colour as normal hair usually?
*Do they tend to become grey when older?
*How often do they fall out? Do they ever stop growing?
*How are they nonobviously different from eyelashes and regular hair?
Answering these questions would be a great way to expand the article. Ksbrowntalk 21:54, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: nose hair can hardly filter particles. First everything smaller than the distance in between them will run through it. Also bigger parts can run through it when having enough speed are are abel to crawl themselves. Filtering is primarily based on the wet inner skin of the nose. Liquid is produced to bind dust to it. Then it is transported forward to the deeper nose and finally runs into the mouth and stomach beein swallowed or chocke out of the mouth. The majority of the dust is beathed by the mouth anyway so the lungs have most of the work to do. Nose hair might have a positive effect in "linearizing" the air flow by avoiding large turbulences in the air which might increas flow resistance, like this is known from little pieces an sharks fins (a totally flat surface is not the ideal situation for best flow). To my mind, this effect is low and can be ignored. It is also not relevant that the hairs may hinder very cold air from going int o the lungs, as some people think. 46.88.171.18 (talk) 00:41, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questions moved from the article on cleanup 

message: What about when you get a single nose hair that is different than the rest?  For me the the majority of my nose hair appears bleach blonde and fine diameter but I get this one hair that is coarse and brown/black and if left untouched grows to be visible outside of my nose. This one I pluck. Jake9wi (talk) 06:09, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Single hair different