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VERY HARD RANDOM WHITE HAIRS/STRINGS ON MY BODY

By Shannyhouse110912 | 104 posts, last post
Chris Smith, MD answered this Random Long, White, Thick Hair Strings
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Guest

It sounds like cutanious horn or keratin horn. It is a tumor (sometimes cancerous) and causes a growth from the skin of keratin, which is the substance that makes up your finger nails and also feathers and wool in animals.

See a dermatologist promptly for treatment. You may want to consider leaving the horn and not extracting it so that the doctor is able to see it in place. If you have one that you have pulled out, you should retain it and take it to the doctor with you.

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Guest

I had one of these last week. It was about 4.5 inches long and was about as dense as low gauge fishing line. Showed my wife and she screamed.
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Tammy

WOW ! On line searching about the half inc white hard haif that came from know where ,it was about quarter inc under my left eye, pulled it out ,and was like WTF . Am I growing a whisker ! Am I turning into a CAT ???.
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Jason

It is supposedly caused by damaged DNA (a common occurance) And it, in the same way moles and other blemishes are created, causes a sort of mutation in the cells that produce keratin, therefore leading to long hair. By personal experience (warning: not scientifically proven) I THINK it is caused by stress, just pluck them. the same for the thin ones. :)
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Roger

Sounds like a Keratin horn.
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ANSWER:

I've had a couple of these. At first, I discounted Pili Multigemeni, because it was, to me, just one, large, very thick hair--not several. In fact, it seemed like a hollow bit of plastic.

Turns out, this was just a layer of keratin (the stuff skin and hair are made of) that had formed a sheath around the hairs over time. Upon carefully dissecting it, there were 5 or 6 little hairs trapped inside.

I couldn't see those 5 or 6 follicles from which this grew because they were positioned abnormally deep in my skin, likely the cause of the hairs bundling together like this in the first place.

This is most common in body areas that experience friction and shaving. I'm not sure if they are the cause of ingrown hairs, or whether ingrown hairs are the cause of the deep follicles. Regardless, there exists a correlation.


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Guest

As a suggestion, please don't assume Morgellons as non-specific symptoms are being reported throughout such a wide range and are becoming sort of piled on to the whole Morgellons issue. Many years ago I had an accident wherein I suffered alot of flesh wounds. Upon doctors looking into my weird hair problems it was discovered that I had injured follicles and areas of keloid (re-healed ) skin where the follicles had. been pushed into wrong angles, even sideways and would and still do produce strange hairs. Old pimples or even bug bites or small scratches are even capable of causing these damaged follicles anywhere on the body. Don't panic or become too focused in on the morgellons...for your own health. Not saying it isn't but I wasted alot of time obsessing over my weird, wiry, stringy, painful, under-skin hairs going in circles around morgs. Good luck.
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Guest

This "disease" is not medically recognized.
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Guest

I've had these too. Had one on my cheek that stuck out about a quarter inch with about an inch under the skin. What it turned out to be was just a hair that had trouble growing out and my body saw it as an infection, sending white blood cells to attack it, resulting in the whole hair turning sort of a translucent yellowish white by the time I was able to pull it out.
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Guest

My wife is pulling the same like string or hair from my back and she said she had out about a half an inch when it started to go back in by itself
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Guest

Hi, im just 15 years old and i've been getting the same white hard hairs as you did. I'm really scared cause i dont know what it is, did you by any chance find out. Do u know how to stop it.
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Guest

I wish i never had this but its a killer..i get what it LOOKS and is circle bald spots on my face and neck.. thick black course hairs when touched surrounding hairs move, grow before your eyes , clinch together and wen TRYING to seperate EM they quickly go back to the same position but sit lower to my face... long thin white hairs in my nose grow rapidly fast nd where my hair grows in the usual spot where most men get hair simontaneously seems to grow in just hours super long and when TRYING to tweazer them out it is difficult and when u do get it another one kespa coming out the same pour....eyelashes are much lighter in color and r real long....lil blonde hairs on forrehead...now im growin EM on my years.. long hard black hairs on mOLes which just started and lil hard to see hairs on freckles....basically the hairs grow so frikkin fast.. if i rest my elbows on my thighs testing r doing WATEVER on the fone i get all these ingrow hairs where my arms been at.. crazy.. im scared of what i might have... skin irritates constantly and has a crawling feeling.. i can literally feel my hairs move....worst thing is i only grow think hard white hairs that stand st8 up on my scrotum and when TRYING to pluck it... if u DNT get it it see ms to go deeper in and my sack not just THAT hair but several of them......i always had minimum hair on my body.. now theres little to thin to thick either white, red, or think black hairs in WEIRD places WHER hair usually dont grow==everytime i smoke my nose feels funny, top lip and chin.....and blonde hairs grow in seconds what i assume where ever the smoke touches my skin when exhaling out .....ANYONE KNOWS WHAT THIS MAY Be ... need answers asap....i always thought it was morgellons cause years ago i had sneazed and when i opened my eyes it was as if someone had thrown cotton and lent in my face... i pray it is from mal nutrition and just some type of infection i could get rid of!!!
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Guest

I have the exact same symptoms as your describing.its a nightmare. It's changed everything
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Guest

I have it too on my neck it's been here for some years now but I like to believe it's a very awesome thing.
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Guest

LMAO, okay, that is funny! But the rest of these people are being serious. I like the part where you are talking about sneezing and cotton and lint ended up on your face.
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