Everybody once in a life time start biting their nails.Its very common in childhood, and children find it very difficult to stop doing it.People even bite their foot nails, Nail biting is not all about making Ur nails short.
Even the famous people like Britney spears,Eva Mendez, Lisa Marie, Elijah Wood bite their nails in some part of their life.Nail biting carries a lot of health hazards. It has seen that as early as five, children start biting their nails but its very uncommon in age of children between 2 to 3.Biting nails can bring many complications in life and health.It can cause various mouth problems and may lead to be the cause of others disease too.
Even the famous people like Britney spears,Eva Mendez, Lisa Marie, Elijah Wood bite their nails in some part of their life.Nail biting carries a lot of health hazards. It has seen that as early as five, children start biting their nails but its very uncommon in age of children between 2 to 3.Biting nails can bring many complications in life and health.It can cause various mouth problems and may lead to be the cause of others disease too.
Why people bite their Nails?
Nail biting is often considered
to be a common outcome of Stress, depression and anxiety.Depression and obsessive compulsive disorders
are the two common mental disorders that may lead to compulsive nail biting.Many people even bite their nails when they
excited or trilled, some people even bite their nails even when they see some suspense situation
in television or else. According to doctors and researchers nail biting is a result of habitual
condition and a common reaction of stress and boredom. Nail biting is used as a
tension reliever by nail bitters. It has also been documented that some people
even bite their nails while sleeping. This may be due to stress in dreaming or
simply due to stress from the general life.
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| Elijah Wood |
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| Eva Mendez |
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| Britney Spears |
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| Lisa Marie |
Health Consequences of Nail biting:-
Nail biting is very unsanitary, apart from that it leads to various diseases. Nail biting can lead to broken skin, infection in mouth and even it can even lead to enter pin worms and bacteria from anus region to mouth.After several years of nail biting can even lead to deformation of nails and fingers tip.Broken skin from nail biting may even act as a gate way for bacteria and micro organism to enter in our body and may even lead to bacterial infection.
1.Nail deformation
2.Read and Sore Fingers
3.Can lead to Nail biting habit.
4. Bleeding due to excessive biting of nails.
5.Broken Skin and Nails.
6.Bad Teeth
7.Psychological Disorder
8.Contribute to skin infections
9.Cancer
9.Cancer
10.Paronychia*
*Paronychia: Bacteria in the mouth or
environment can enter cuts and cracks in the skin around the nail and produce
infections is called paronychia.
How to Stop?
The best and most common way to stop nail biting is to cut nails when its too big so that u can't have any long nails to bite.U can apply some bitter taste cream in Ur nails so that when u bite Ur nails it will stop u from biting ur nails.U can apply onion in ur nails, it even brings bitter taste and even makes ur nails healthy and sinning. Mouth pieces that avoid nail biting are also available in market.
There are
also a behavioral therapy and various Training where u can reduce the urge of
biting nails.
Children
can wear footed pajamas as a reminder not to bite their nails. There is stimulus
therapy where u can have ur cell identify and eliminate the stimulus cell that frequently
triggers the biting.
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| Children biting Foot Nails |
Reference: Famous Nail bitters from:
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