Random White Hairs...

Now, I've spent the last 2 years Googling like crazy on this topic.

Everyone seemed to either say it was Morgellon's disease (which is a delusion about alien fibers in your body or something, associated with formication), or replied saying 'HEY, I HAVE ONE, TOO!' but not being able to supply an answer.

I'm usually good at finding shit on the internet.

These guys are pondering over it too.

http://www.topix.com/forum/med/dermatology/TU78570G33D1LQSB6/p4

There seems to be two kinds: a long white thin strand of hair or a short, very hard one, almost like a piece of fine fishing line or something.

I understand terminal hair follicles sometimes end up where vellus hair follicles should be and we get a long normal-colored hair in the same place regularly, but what about the white ones randomly popping up? And why so thick? They are consistently white all along the shaft and root.

No, I am not talking about a white coating, caused by demodex folliculorum- an entire white hair.

I've been holding off from plucking one for like 3 weeks, finally tried to pluck it and tape it to some black card to show a dermatologist but, get this, the hair was so plasticky, I tried to pick it up with tweezers and it bent like a spring, flying out of sight. Grr.

So... Anyone?

head or???....andwhy didnt youjust ask me?....a fucking hairstylist?

pictures? I have had a few random white hairs but nothing that I've made note of, maybe 2 or 3 over like 4 years? I assume it's stress related for myself, but you never know.

Skull pube from impure thoughts. Keep up the good work. cn

I've had a few of these before. But haven't noticed one in a long ass time. It was on my rib cage, on was like 3 to four inches when I noticed it, which was odd. My mom who is a hair stylist/educator and told my it was likely a random hair that imbedded itself into the skin. But the hair regrew, and was that blonde color again. I plucked it, and haven't seen it since.

@Peyote.. Cool.. Weird though, have you ever felt like you really needed o know WTF was up with that hair once and for all?

@NeerNeer/Sunni I thought you'd have gathered from mentioning I know terminal hair sometimes grows where vellus hair should be.. The head is where terminal hair is an every day thing, I am talking about on the body, randomly. I know one or two GRAY hairs on the head is nothing out of the ordinary.

Errm... The picture is somewhat sensitive, hun, but it just shows one distinct white hair growing amidst perfectly normal black hairs.

its your pubes

When you get to my age, random white hairs are more a fact of life than a novelty. In my ear? Really, God?

It is quite clear I am not talking about white/gray hairs related to age.

Unusually long thin white hairs, growing in a recurring spot or random, short thick plastic-like barb-kind of ones popping up where there usually isn't even normal hair (besides peach fuzz)

xKuroiTaimax said:

It is quite clear I am not talking about white/gray hairs related to age.

Unusually long thin white hairs, growing in a recurring spot or random, short thick plastic-like barb-kind of ones popping up where there usually isn't even normal hair (besides peach fuzz)

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Gee.. thanks. Grampa is going to bed now. You young whippersnappers sure are precocious.

Where's my vapor rub........

xKuroiTaimax said:

@Peyote.. Cool.. Weird though, have you ever felt like you really needed o know WTF was up with that hair once and for all?

@NeerNeer/Sunni I thought you'd have gathered from mentioning I know terminal hair sometimes grows where vellus hair should be.. The head is where terminal hair is an every day thing, I am talking about on the body, randomly. I know one or two GRAY hairs on the head is nothing out of the ordinary.

Errm... The picture is somewhat sensitive, hun, but it just shows one distinct white hair growing amidst perfectly normal black hairs.

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I was a little curious about it for sure, but not trippin about it. I know it wasn't my imagination because I showed it to a friend, who got a good laugh out of it. Sorry I fall into the category of "I have had it too" but can't help. I'm sticking with it was a foreign fiber getting into the skin layer. Still odd that when I had it, it was in the same spot. And I never noticed it grow, it was just a long ass hair all of the sudden.




I used cal/mag to correct the deficiency ;p

It's way past your bedtime Carne, you've got to be up by 4 am to get the early bird special at the country kitchen buffet. Then you're in for a long day of watching Matlock reruns and yelling at kids to stay off your lawn.

The reason the hair is white like that is probably a pigment thing...

Yeah, some sort of anomaly of pigmentation, but what makes them either long and straggly or short and hard? I mean, it's not quite the same as a keratin horn, where it literally is a horn in the skin, it's formed like a normal hair but seems like plastic. Not even like fingernail material. Dafuq.

IT MUST HAVE A NAME!!! How can this be so distinct and many people clearly have it but of all the random medical conditions officially recognized and subcategorized, this phenomenon doesn't have a name...

Bedtime indeed; I got back from school today after sleeping in the library and stuff since monday and left work at the studio at 1 am... It is now 5 am. Bedtime spliff is called for,,,

xKuroiTaimax said:

Yeah, some sort of anomaly of pigmentation, but what makes them either long and straggly or short and hard? I mean, it's not quite the same as a keratin horn, where it literally is a horn in the skin, it's formed like a normal hair but seems like plastic. Not even like fingernail material. Dafuq.

IT MUST HAVE A NAME!!! How can this be so distinct and many people clearly have it but of all the random medical conditions officially recognized and subcategorized, this phenomenon doesn't have a name...

Bedtime indeed; I got back from school today after sleeping in the library and stuff since monday and left work at the studio at 1 am... It is now 5 am. Bedtime spliff is called for,,,

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"a wild hair"? cn

I get them too ...never thought much of it
They always come back in the same place too .


Like one or two stray white hairs usually longer than the rest of my hair


I still don't think much of it


#Y.O.L.O.


Edit. I'm only 22 btw

Just a fucked up hair follicle, no biggie

I think they might be some type of vibrissae in animals like cats. like whiskers, but they occurs all over the coat, not the face. Like an evolutionary throwback...

Well, the hard ones at least. I'm not sure about the specific combination of a random vellus follicle AND the hypo pigmentation and them often being thin and coiled.

I hear of people finding the hard white ones under their skin or in bundles. I can understand the bundles thing to an extent- pili multigemini is the condition of having multiple hairs in one shaft which can make you prone to ingrown hairs. But again the specific occurrence of multiple hairs in one follicle (reported on people who DON'T have pili multigemini all over), white hairs and them beig the plasticky kind is sort of weird.

I don't get A gross lump of 'fibers', but I do have pili multigemini. There must be a correlation. Do you think hair formation is just one things that is particularly prone to mutation in humans..