How harmful is nail biting? How do I get rid of it?

Nail biting is a very common stress-relieving habit that can be hard to quit. It is more common in boys than girls, with most cases beginning between the ages of 4 and 6 and stabilizing from 7 to 10 years old, and the habit often becomes ingrained in the adolescent years, when adolescence is often a time of emotional turmoil. Therefore, nail biting is mostly caused by mental factors, especially in adolescent students and adults, you must know that when people are in a state of tension, anxiety, and depression, they will unconsciously want to do something to alleviate this situation and make themselves more comfortable.

Nail biting has become an option for many people, as they find that nail biting can help them relieve tension easily. There are also some people who will develop the habit of biting their nails when thinking about using their brains, as if this can help them relieve the stress caused by using their brains.

If you're depressed and want to bite your nails, try to find something else to do for yourself. Such as participating in outdoor activities such as gardening, sports, or even walking to keep your hands busy. Arts and crafts, cooking, knitting, learning to play musical instruments, and other handy hobbies will also help distract you.

Replacing it with healthier habits can also benefit your body and mind.

If you still can't stop, you can try applying anti-bite nail polish and apply this bitter nail polish to your nails every two days to prevent yourself from putting your fingers in your mouth. The horrible taste will make you think twice before nibbling. Or cover them with tape or stickers.

If you bite often, you will eat many bacteria into your stomach, which is particularly harmful to the human body. Be sure to exercise restraint and ask someone else to supervise you.

Frequent nail biting can cause harm 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. At present, many children in China have too high levels of lead in their bodies, in addition to atmospheric lead pollution, children will be contaminated with lead on their hands when they play with toys, and they will eat lead into their bodies when they bite their nails, so correcting the bad habit of biting their nails will help reduce lead intake to a certain extent.

1. Nails are the hiding place of various fungi and bacteria, and people who often bite their nails are more likely to get sick from the mouth, causing gastroenteritis. Dustbeard, especially children, like to touch east and west, and there are more bacteria on their hands.

2 Bacteria on the hands are not only easy to cause gastrointestinal infections, but also very bad for oral health, as early as 2007, Turkish scientists did a test on 59 people, in the people who bit their nails, 76% of the people had a variety of disgusting bacteria in their mouths. And among those who have not bitten their nails, only people will be like this. Therefore, biting your nails all the time can also be harmful to your oral health.

3. Nail biting has a certain relationship with nervousness and anxiety, biting nails during the day and grinding teeth may occur when sleeping at night, which is also very harmful to teeth and easy to lead to tooth wear.

Moreover, the nails are relatively hard, and children often bite them, which will lead to chronic wear and tear of the teeth, and will also make the teeth grow unevenly and affect the health of the teeth.

4. People who like to bite their nails, the top of the nail is often uneven, can not cover the finger end, and the fingernail around the ** is often bitten and bleeding, serious can be complicated by infection such as nail bed, paronychia, long-term, after the nail bed is damaged, it will also lead to the entire nail falling off or deformation.