If you nibble on your own facial hair are hairballs actually likely or do hairs, especially the tiny short ones you would be eating if eating your own facial hair, usually digested no problem?
Say what the huh?
If you’re unclear about how to eat facial hair I just made a quick vidfor you of me eating some.
I dare not clicketh.
Also, I’m imagining very itchy poop.
I would just rather imagine you as a cat.
Nope, I’ve been eating my facial hair since I’ve had it basically. Not all of it by any means, not even close. Only the bits I can reach with my teeth, for starters.
But then you read about stories like 1.8 kg hair extracted from girl’s stomach and you wonder. Thing is that obviously I’m basically eating very little hair because of where I’m getting it from. So the risk comes down to whether it’s being digested or not.
There’s an eating disorder called Pica. Not sure if this really applies, but who knows.
Ohhhhh, now it makes perfect sense!
Ok, I watched it. I just wanted someone else to go first.
My initial reaction was more to do with why you’d want to eat your facial hair to begin with, not necessarily technique. But hey, nice work!
I don’t know hairball physics but I imagine they form by the hairs tangling together and that tiny little hairs would have a hard time doing that.
Also, this is one of the greatest videos ever made.
So the hair you pull from your teeth is your own???
It’s not inevitable but it is possible. Do some searches for trichophagia and if you dare, image searches.
It seems to be more common with long hair but one noteworthy case of hairball via moustache was Josef Mengele. After going into exile in Brazil he developed a nervous habit of chewing the ends of his moustache hair and developed a gastric obstruction that required surgery to remove.
Okay, the question then: Why doesn’t ingested hair (especially in smallish quantities) just get digested, to the same extent that other fibrous or keratinous stuff does?
Alpha-keratins include hair, wool, nails, claws, horns and hooves: which of these are readily digested?
Why doesn’t hair at least get all mushy enough to just pass through and out the other end, like cellulose fibrous stuff in vegetables? Why hair balls?
I recommend shaving.
Start your own fetish thread, perv!
Small signs of justice in the universe…
I’m not pulling it from my teeth. I’m using my teeth to cut it.
What else do you do?