Talk:Nasal hair

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

Picture
I removed the picture. It was not fit for the topic.
 * Please explain why you think it's not fit. Dubidub 07:41, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * How does it add to the article? We've all seen a nose; perhaps a medical illustration would be useful, but a self portrait of someone’s nose doesn’t clarify anything. It’s a picture plenty of people have found when they left their camera unattended at a party.
 * &mdash;the preceding comment is by 67.116.241.29 (talk • contribs) 10:48, 20 November 2006: Please sign your posts!.
 * An illustration certainly adds to the article. There are far too many articles without any illustrations. I can't see why it is imporytant wether the photographer has taken a photo of himself or someone else. The person can't be idetified from the photo. It just makes it easier to give permission to use the photo. It isn't even a portrait, just part of a face. Dubidub 15:15, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I dont think it fits either. It should not include the eye or the mouth, just to make it a more generic picture.  Yes it does look like some party picture and doesnt fit the article.--Chrisdab 23:20, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I also feel the picture doesn't suit, it's obviously a party picture. 68.120.195.32 09:57, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Obviously, a party picture isn't acceptable. But more important than the setting/spirit in which the photo was taken is the fact that a random photograph of someone's nasal hair is amateurish. A professional (or, at least, professional looking) photo or illustration would be suitable though. If a picture is too amateurish to remsemble one that a person would find in a book on the ear/nose/throat pathways of the body, then it shouldn't be used. ask123 03:40, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Ear hair?
Here's Nasal hair. There's Earwax. But where's Ear hair? Ewlyahoocom 15:21, 5 April 2006 (UTC)


 * 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)

Removing nose hair
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)

Is it possible to permanently remove nasal hair and if so, how? If it is possible, is this a wise course of action? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.208.119.137 (talk) 05:50, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Risks when pulling out nose hair

 * 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)

nose hair = cilia?
I think there needs to be some sort of confirmation whether when talking about nasal hair and nasal cilia that they are interchangable terms. I'm not an ENT specialist but I would think that hair and cilia are two entirely different things, both on a funtional and cellular level.--209.7.195.158 15:49, 19 January 2007 (UTC)


 * So do I. Cilia I thought were microscopic. If cilia are the important thing for keeping the nose clean, you'd think that the trimming wouldn't matter much.  I'd always assumed nose hair was like eyelashes and eyebrows.  Used to keep stuff out, but not so vital now in out hyper-sanitized society. --71.192.117.127 01:09, 12 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree. Cilia are part of the cells in your respiratory tract and are microscopic. Hairs are primarily cellular products (keratins) and can be seen with the naked eye. You can't trim nasal cilia and your nasal hairs don't beat at 16 times a second. This article made me almost laugh because it was so wrong. It needs some serious cleanup. Furthermore, while many credible sources state that nasal hairs act as filters for the things we breathe in, in actuality these hairs do just about nothing in that function. Air filtration is accomplished through the anatomy of the nasal passages. The conchae spin the air through the nasal pathway. The lighter particles (air molecules) easily maneuver this system while the heavier particles (dust and the like) can't. The heavier particles then slam into a sheet of mucus and are trapped. This is called inertial filtration and the air is just about 100% filtered by the time it gets past the posterior nares. Hairs have nothing to do with this.


 * I moved the stuff about cilia to the correct article's discussion page, and edited the intro to state that nose hair should not be confused with cilia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.74.187.52 (talk) 14:03, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Maybe the trivial observation of human female average nosehairlessness addresses both the nosehair=cilia and particle-filtering-function questions. User0name (talk) 13:51, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Replacement rate
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)

Do you think that removing the hair just at the begining of the nose is harmful? I was under the impression that the hair that keeps the dust and dirt from our sinus' is farther up the nasal passage.

I need hair to grow in my nose. Anybody know of anything to replace lost hair in the nose?
 * --try some Rogaine

Talk Page Content
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)

Questions moved from the article on cleanup
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. Ksbrown talk 21:54, 13 March 2009 (UTC)


 * 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)

Racial differences in nose hair? Which populations tend to have the longest nose hair? Which the sparsest? Which societies are more acceptable of nose hair? Is long nose hair a mark of distinction? Will it be fashionable for men to encourage their nose hair, for the purpose of subsequent styling and moussing? Conversely, does waxing thick nose hair allow more oxygen to reach the brain? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.64.104.151 (talk) 03:43, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Single hair different
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)

Note that I'm not asking this just for my health. If someone has info on this might be a good addition to the article. Jake9wi (talk) 06:12, 20 March 2021 (UTC)