Nail biting is usually a habit starts from the childhood
days and if does not end, it continues to the mature age. Nail biting leads to
the harmful of tissues around the skin that tends to make nail growth and the
nails feel painful. Because of nail biting, the infection, viruses and harmful
toxins are passed from your nails to your mouth and then intestine. A kid is so
delicate so he will be assaulted immediately. Many negative effects have been
noticed due to nail biting and one of the biggest things is that nail biting
makes your nails appearing ugly.
How to stop biting your nails
Here are a few ideas recommended from the skin doctors in
order to stop nail biting as fast as possible:
1. Keep your nails trimmed short: Less growing of nail will
help in ending the nail biting.
2. Apply bitter-tasting nail polish to your nails: This nail
polish will not reach you any harm but being unpleasant in taste, it dismays
individuals from nail biting habit.
3. Get consistent manicures: To keep your nails stunning and
attractive, you will have to do manicures at the normal manner. Another simple
way you can do is cover up your nails with any tape or stickers or wear gloves
in order to stop the nail biting.
4. Replace the nail-biting with a great habit: Play silly
things and let your hands active in any work to stay away from nail biting, it
will turn your bad habit to an excellent habit.
5. Identify your triggers: Physical triggers are recommended
for this issue like presence of hangnails, boredom, tension or anxiety. Identify
that what is the circumstance with you that triggers your mind to bite your nails.
Once you recognized, avoid that scenario and create a strategy to stop this bad
practice.
6. Try to slowly stop biting your nails: Doctors tip would
never be failed. They gave a good idea to gradually sort out the issue
regarding the nail biting such as quit biting one set of nails like first your
thumb nails , if effective , stop the pointer and pinky nails and slowly it
will goes through the whole hand . It will reduce the practice in a slow and
constant way.
At times nail biting may be a dangerous psychological or
emotional trouble. In this situation, you would have to check with a doctor. If
nail disease occurs, consult with skin doctor.
