Simple and effective methods of self-analysis, physical activity, manicure and folk remedies will help to quench the desire to bite your nails.
What reason does a person bite his nails
According to the results of sociological research, more than 25% of people gnaw their nails in the workplace, solving service issues, another part - while shopping, tormented by the choice of goods. The rest, only when very nervous.
Psychotherapists claim that the habit of nibbling nails is a consequence of the experienced problem, after which the obsessive reflex triggers as soon as a person begins to worry. For certain to establish the reason which induces to gnaw nails, the science failed. Genetic predisposition and stress response play a role in habit development.
Psychiatrists, for example, claim that only nervous shocks are to blame: If a school-age child bites his nails, this indicates hidden stress caused by unusual loads in a new school, a quarrel with relatives and peers, fear, divorce, and a new marriage of one of the parents . All this can provoke the appearance of a habit even in a calm child.
Why not do so
Nibbling nails and burr skin refers to habits that are formed in childhood. Losing sight of this, parents take risks. The child may form a constant reflex to stress. According to statistics, this problem affects babies from 3 to 4 years.
Almost half of adolescents do not forget this habit and continue to bite their nails, becoming adults. There will be no colossal harm to health, but the likelihood of inflammation of the skin around the nail and insertion of various infections into microcracks is high enough. This exercise is also bad for gums and teeth.
Hands can not hide, it is a kind of business card. Nail plates gnawed almost to meat look very ugly. Doctors claim that nail biting is not only not aesthetically pleasing, but also dangerous to health.
Under the nail plate can be microbes, staphylococcus and helminth eggs, which through the mouth enter the body.
All this is a significant reason to give up the bad habit.
Ways to get rid of bad habits at home
Home treatment is recommended in two stages: first, find out and eliminate the cause, and then begin the process of disaccustoming. Know that any bad habit in a person is formed for 1.5 months, so you need to hold out at least this time. Then it will be easier. How to stop biting nails on hands:
- First stage. Find out at what point you have a desire to nibble your nails. What circumstances and emotions are experiencing at this moment. Perhaps when you understand why you are doing this, you will be able to give up the addiction. To correctly analyze all the data, write in a notebook. Keep records for at least 7 days, then analyze and highlight the main factors provoking the desire to bite your nails. Perhaps this happens when you are bored or worried.
- Second phase. As soon as you realize why and at what point you begin to bite your nails, you should choose a temporary or permanent replacement of harmful manipulation. You can try to crack a match or a toothpick instead of nails, or use gum. Another small piece of advice: take a wide elastic band and put it on your wrist, as soon as there is a desire to nibble, pull off the gum and lower it sharply so that you get an uncomfortable feeling.
What else helps? Girls will help traditional manicure or nail. Beautiful acrylic nails usually do not chew. People of both sexes can be recommended to lubricate your fingers with something bitter. For example, mustard, polynya, pepper or special varnish.
How to wean a young child from a bad habit
Some parents are angry and require the child to "stop nail biting." But, as if mom and dad did not want to, it is impossible to get rid of the habit of just the demands of the habit It should be understood that the children's peculiarity of nail biting is a neurotic and persistent habit.
It is important that parents do not emphasize this problem. Therefore, it is categorically impossible to scold the baby, intimidate and, moreover, beat on the hands, constantly pulling them down. The child will be afraid, and this will further increase the nervousness. So a bad habit will only fix.
Quickly wean from her baby is impossible. First you need to find out and eliminate the cause. To do this, parents will need to catch the moment when the child pulls his hands in his mouth. There are not many situations to list them all, and they are individual for each child. This may be watching a movie or performing at a holiday in kindergarten.
After finding out the reasons, it is necessary to remove the sources of the appearance of strong emotions and teach the child to shift his attention. To enthrall with really interesting active games, read an interesting book and reduce the time of watching television.
Lubrication of the fingertips with mustard, pepper and other bitter foods, according to the doctors is completely useless. And pleasant in this procedure is not enough, if you do not comply with the measure, then such funds will lead to irritation of the mucous membrane of the child’s mouth. If you don’t cope with the habit for a long time, show your child to a psychologist or neuropsychiatrist, listen to his advice, even if they seem unexpected. For example, treatment with fairy tales.
From 12 years and older: how to wean a teenager bite his nails?
According to statistics, boys aged 10 years and older bite their nails more often than girls. How to get rid of the habit of biting nails? At once, we say that ridding a teenager of an obsessive habit is a difficult task. Tips to smear fingers with bitter means or to glue with a plaster are ineffective and are only temporary.
The habit of nibbling nails is often formed in schoolchildren during the first school months. Unfamiliar surroundings and unusual activities provoke a nervous breakdown. Exercise, especially in the pool, will help to relieve emotional stress.
A similar effect has a set of exercises from yoga. But it only makes sense if a teenager loves sports and is positive about yoga, otherwise there will be only additional nervous excitement, and not the desired relaxation.
In simple cases, an effective colorless varnish, created by pharmacists specifically to solve this problem, will help. This tool is recommended not only for teenagers, but also for adults.
Varnish is an excellent substitute for mustard and pepper, thanks to a sharp smell, it also strengthens the nail plate and saturates it with vitamins. If the reflex is triggered while reading or watching movies - just put on any gloves.
A good result will give the method of manicure, if the girl nibbles the nails. Mom needs a manicure for her daughter and herself too. It is better to take for this colorless varnish for yourself and for your daughter. Both mom and dad need to pay attention to their daughter's nails, note how they have become neat and look very beautiful. It would be nice to give a beautiful ring.
Sometimes doctors recommend showing a teenager to a psychotherapist. Do not neglect these recommendations. In group classes, the child will be taught to control emotions, which will make him calm and balanced. All this will help reduce the desire to gnaw nails, and then completely get rid of it.
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