Hair in surgical wound

[Frankie2189]

I had surgery to remove a mole on my face by excision three days ago. I removed the wound dressing yesterday as instructed and noticed that there were three or four hairs trapped inside the stitched wound. I pulled on them gently but only managed to get one of them out: the other three hairs snapped and have been left inside the wound. The wound is healing quite well apart from some redness, swelling and tenderness just at the point where the hairs entered the wound (before they snapped). Should I be worried about this? I spoke to my surgeon who said it’s nothing to worry about, but I’m concerned that the wound is not going to heal properly while the hairs are left in there, and I’ll be left with an even worse scar. I’m on antibiotics already. Does anyone have any similar experience with this? Thanks in advance!

Are you absolutely sure that they’re not just very fine stitches? Sometimes they can begin to poke out a bit as things heal

Hi, thanks for replying. I’m absolutely sure. As the wound was being sewn up I could feel tugging on the wispy hairs at my “sideburns”, but thought to myself that surely they were not caught, so I didn’t say anything. Before I pulled the hair out/snapped three of them, they were extending from my scalp just above my ear, and into the wound. So the hairs are not fine stitches, as before they snapped they were attached to my head.