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Nail biting treatment: what you should know!
nail biting is a stress-relieving nervous habit.
Knowing this, as well as the other reasons the lead to it, is the first step in treating it.
Treatment of nail biting in adults and in children is different, though there are many similar measures that can be taken for both groups.
Some of these measures are behavior changes, while the rest are just physical obstacles that prevent you from biting your nails.
The measures that are applicable only or mainly to children, are described here.
Nail biting treatment: Trim and polish your nails!
Trim (and polish) your nails.
This is a major way to stop nail biting.
Trimming can be done and should be done by everybody, while nail polishing is applicable mainly for ladies over 12 or even older,
though there are invisible nail polishes that can be applied by men as well.
If your nails are trimmed, you will have less stuff for biting and unless you like the cuticles especially,
you will simply be unable to bite your nails without biting the soft tissue under it.
Since biting the soft tissue under the nail is very painful, chances are that even if you attempt to bite your nails,
you will stop it immediately, at the first signs of pain.
Well, this might sound a little bit drastic, but unless you are masochistic enough, pain will remind you that you are doing something wrong.
Also the sight of the perfectly-trimmed and cared of manicure reminds you that if you bite it, it is gone.
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