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I swallow one hair i need to worry or not please tell me?
4 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Short answer: do not worry. There are many things we swallow every day that do not harm us. Including a few hairs, a few bugs, skin cells and nose drippings, and more. Your stomach can easily handle a hair.
Answered 6/17/2021
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Swallowing one human hair is not a danger to your health. The FDA in the U.S. states there is no danger in swallowing a hair in your food as it found no cases of illness found in that scenario. Psychiatric patients who swallow great quantities of hair(trichophagia) can get serious gastric problems including obsruction however.
Answered 6/19/2021
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