Quick & Safe Ways to Remove a Hair from Your Tongue

If you've ever had a hair get stuck in your throat, then you know how annoying this can be. You also feel that hair long after it has passed through. A hair in the throat can cause a lot of coughing and sometimes choking. You want to get a hair off of your tongue as soon as you feel it. Read on to learn how to remove hair from your tongue.

Things You'll Need

• Relatively clean fingers, preferably with short nails
• Relatively clean arms
• Mirror
• Mouthful of water (optional)

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Instructions

• 1

  As soon as you feel the hair on your tongue, bring a lot of saliva into your mouth and don't swallow. If your hands aren't reasonably clean, go wash them.

• 2

  Concentrate to feel exactly where that hair is on your tongue.

• 3

  Stick your tongue out as far as you comfortably can.

• 4

  Use the fingers of your dominant hand to try and pluck the hair off, lightly scraping your tongue with a fingernail if you have to.

• 5

  If that doesn't help, lick your arms. This often dislodges the hair and leaves it onto your arms.

• 6

  If that doesn't help, go to a mirror and try to locate the hair on your tongue to pluck off.

• 7

  If the hair is still there, try rinsing your mouth, but spit, don't swallow.