What are the effects of frequent nail biting on the body?

It is a zinc deficiency, and if it is a male deficiency, it will affect the production of male hormones and be hindered.

1. The direct harm of nail gnawing is the injury to nails and fingers, and frequent and serious nail gnawing will cause damage to the growth of nails, so that the nails are often in a state of broken nails, which is easy to increase the risk of infection. Nail gnawing can also have a detrimental effect on one's image, and more importantly, nail gnawing is generally a subconscious relief of anxiety, tension, or a manifestation of obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

2. If these two conditions are not diagnosed and corresponding, the condition will be delayed and the overall healthy life will be affected. Therefore, as long as there is frequent nail gnawing and often causes damage to the nails, you should go to a psychiatric department as soon as possible for professional diagnosis and evaluation, and accept the corresponding specialty**.

Nail biting also has a great impact on the fingers, which can easily lead to lesions in the fingers, which can cause various adverse effects. The bad habit of biting nails will also cause many adverse effects on the health of the rubber, and once there is a habit of biting nails, it needs to be carried out or corrected in time to avoid continuous damage to health. Let's learn more about the effects of nail biting on your fingers.

1. Physical damage

Anyone who has the habit of biting their nails knows that once they start biting, they can't stop at all, and the more they bite, the better the taste. In this state, the nails will be shaved off little by little, but if you still want to bite, it is easy to get bitten on your fingers. And because the fingers are affected by saliva for a long time, it is easy to peel, and it is accompanied by the pain of the heart, but the pain disappears or this is relieved when you put the finger in the mouth, so it is a vicious circle.

2. Bacterial sensation is like infection

Since the finger is injured, the immunity of the finger will be reduced, and the finger is the most likely part to come into contact with bacteria, so it is easy to get infected and cause symptoms such as inflammation and suppuration. At this time, the keratocytes of the fingers are affected, which can lead to nail growth deformities and unsightly fingers. And due to the impact of infection, if not in time**, it will be more serious, and even lead to nail loss.

3. Method

For the habit of biting nails, be sure to be timely**. The most common reason is the lack of iron and zinc in the human body, and it is necessary to replenish these two mineral elements for the human body in time, and at the same time eliminate the unfavorable factors that cause the deficiency of these elements. It can also be due to habit, so it needs to be corrected in a mandatory way.

You can also use habit substitution to get rid of bad habits, which is to replace this bad habit with another good habit, and it will be easier to correct.

Unknowingly, a large number of germs are brought into the mouth and body, resulting in oral or dental infections, and in severe cases, digestive tract infections such as bacillary dysentery, or intestinal parasitic diseases, such as ascariasis, pinworm disease, etc.

Frequent nail biting can also cause damage to children's teeth, resulting in irregular tooth alignment, such as tooth outburst, incisor tooth loss, affecting the child's appearance. Nail biting may also cause nail deformity, damage the nail bed, cause bleeding or infection, damage the nail plate, shorten the nail plate, the periphery is not tidy, the nail plate surface is rough, lose the original luster, such as invading the nail groove, can cause paronychia.

When children play with toys, they will get lead on their hands and eat lead when they bite their nails.

Most of the bacteria and other harmful substances on the hands are concentrated in the nails, and long-term nail biting will lead to an increased burden on the immune system. or some harmful substances remain in the fingernails. It is not good for human health.

Nail biting in children is a common phenomenon, and many people have had the experience of biting their nails as children. As a result, some young parents often don't care about their children's nail biting habits. Actually, biting nails is a bad habit for children.

There are many harms to the healthy growth.

Human hands have the most contact with the outside world, especially children, out of curiosity, always like to touch here, scratch there, and even crawl on the ground, and there will be a large number of bacteria, viruses and other pathogenic microorganisms in the fingernails and fingertips. Nail seams.

It is a place conducive to the growth of bacteria, and the eggs can survive for many days between the fingers.

When children bite their nails, they will unknowingly bring a large number of germs into the mouth and body, leading to oral or tooth infections.

In severe cases, it can also cause digestive tract infections such as bacillary dysentery.

or intestinal parasitic diseases, such as ascariasis, pinworm disease, etc.

Frequent nail biting can also cause damage to children's teeth, caused.

Teeth are not aligned.

For example, the teeth are outburst and the front teeth are missing, which affects the child's appearance. Nail biting can also cause nail deformity, damage the nail bed, cause bleeding or infection, damage the nail plate, shorten the nail plate, make the perimeter untidy, and the deck surface is rough and lost.

The original gloss, such as invasion of the nail groove, can cause paronychia.

At present, many children in China have too high levels of lead in their bodies, in addition to atmospheric lead pollution, when children play with toys, their hands will be contaminated with lead, and when they bite their nails, they will eat lead into their bodies, so they can correct the bad habit of biting their nails.

To a certain extent, it helps to reduce lead intake.

There are many bacteria in the nails, and when you bite the nails, you will eat the bacteria in your stomach and get sick easily.

Nail biting hazards:

1.There are many bacteria and they are prone to diseases, such as parasitic diseases, hepatitis, gastroenteritis, etc.

2.It affects the aesthetics, and it is difficult to recover after the nail is deformed.

3.Mental illness, eating fingernails is an obsessive-compulsive symptom that can affect mental health if not corrected in time.

In life, some children just gnaw the tips of their nails, which is not serious. But some children gnaw their nails to the point of tearing them or bleeding their fingers. The nail epithelium has an important function of inhibiting bacteria, yeast and fluids from entering the upper layer of the fingers, so when a child does this, it can cause mild infections of the fingers and the base of the nails, and even cause permanent nail deformation.

If you see your child's nails swollen and red, or their nails are bumpy, you should consider taking him to the hospital's ** department. If not physiologically, then it may be habitual or psychological. If children develop the habit of gnawing their nails from an early age, this bad habit will become addictive, and they want to gnaw their nails when they see them, and the nails of relatives around them such as parents will also gnaw; It is also possible that the reason is a way of self-resolution in times of fear, insecurity, anxiety, and tension.

Using subconscious control techniques to erase the fearful and uneasy memories deep in his heart (subconscious), he enters the belief of safety, self-confidence, positivity, and optimism, and never gnaws his nails again. ”

The bacteria on the nails have entered the body.