When children are young, they will form their own little habits due to various reasons. Many children may bite their fingers when they are young. Some are habitually biting things, and some are learn from children next to them to bite their nails. This situation is considered a v

When children are young, they will form their own little habits due to various reasons. Many children may bite their fingers when they are young. Some are habitually biting things, and some are learn from children next to them to bite their nails. This situation occurs in

. is a very common thing in the eyes of many parents and does not require intervention at all. It will be fine when the child grows up. Some parents will reach out to knock off their children's nail biting, and will use other methods to change their children's bad habits.

Reasons for children getting used to biting their nails

. Bad living habits

Children have strong imitation ability. If parents have bad habits of biting their fingers, the children will consciously imitate their parents, which is prone to like to bite their nails. This situation generally does not require special treatment, just correct the child in time.

, calcium deficiency

If the child is picky about food and the diet structure is too single, it may cause a large amount of calcium in the body to be lost, which can easily lead to calcium deficiency and like to bite his nails. Parents can take their children with oral solution of calcium gluconate, calcium carbonate D3 tablets, vitamin D calcium chewable tablets and other drugs for treatment under the guidance of a doctor.

, Pipes

If the child has metabolic disorders and abnormal taste, it may cause the child to suffer from pica, which may easily lead to the child's pica, which may lead to the child's preference for nail biting. Parents should take their children to the hospital for treatment in a timely manner and provide treatment through psychological counseling under the guidance of a doctor.

, Emotional

The occurrence of nail biting is related to emotional tension and anxiety. Children often have incentives when they start biting their nails, such as discord at home, uneven parental relationships, and unsatisfactory academic performance. After being criticized by parents and teachers, the behavior of nail biting can alleviate the tension and anxiety caused by the above reasons. In the long run, habitual behavior will be formed.

, psychological factors

For example, high psychological pressure, sensitivity, inferiority or lack of security, etc. Children with these unhealthy mental states are prone to biting their nails. Parents must communicate with their children for psychological counseling, and if necessary, psychological counseling and treatment will be provided to help children improve their nail biting habits.

. Lack of security

Children's lack of security may have some negative emotions, and in turn, children may like to bite their nails. It is recommended that family members communicate with their children in a timely manner and provide appropriate company for their children. They can lead their children to participate in physical exercise to alleviate their bad emotions.

. In order to attract the attention of people around you

Some children love to bite their nails to attract the attention of people around you, especially their parents. For this type of child, parents may rarely accompany them and spend a short time with them. In order to attract parents to pay more attention to themselves, this type of child often takes some bad behaviors.

If your child falls in love with nail biting in order to attract your attention, then parents should review their behavior. No matter how busy you are, you must give your children enough care and love.

Nail biting is a common bad habit in children. It is mainly manifested in children's repeated autonomous or involuntary nail biting behavior. In childhood, it can also be manifested in the behavior of biting the toenails.

is commonly found in children aged 10-18, starting from 3-6 years old, can be implemented until puberty and even last for life. The peak age is 12-13 years old for men and 3-8 years old for women. Later, with the increase of age, the incidence rate gradually decreases.

Children who have been "biting their nails" since childhood may experience these 5 situations when they grow up

. They are prone to inferiority and autism

For children who love to bite their nails, introverted children account for a relatively large proportion. So if children who love to bite their nails have these symptoms for a long time.

may cause emotions to accumulate in the heart, causing abnormal personality development, inferiority and introverted personality, and may even cause depression .

and hinder the development of children's teeth and affect the appearance of children

When the child bites his nails, his cheeks on both sides are tightened. The originally normal arc-shaped arch will be squeezed into a pointed shape, causing the upper jaw cover to be high. This not only affects the development of the child's teeth, gums, and mandibular bones, but also can easily lead to the child's jaw protrusion, , , irregular teeth, and hinder chewing...

Moreover, if the child bites his nails frequently and his fingers press on the upper and front teeth for a long time, it will cause the upper and front teeth to protrude outward, forming buck teeth, and the upper and lower teeth cannot be bitten together normally, which will greatly reduce the child's "appearance".

. It is easy to get infected with diseases

A person's hands usually touch a lot of things, which are easy to get infected with bacteria, not to mention that children like to touch them everywhere, so they can touch more bacteria.

So children like to chew their nails, so that bacteria will enter through the "mouth", which will gradually decrease the resistance of the child, and the body will gradually become weaker and easily get sick.

And if this habit is not changed, it may be exposed to infectious diseases, which will have a greater impact. Just like the novel coronavirus pneumonia , which has been going on for more than a year now, its transmission method is human transmission and through mucosa. If a child who loves to gnaw his nails comes into contact with bacteria, the probability of being infected is even greater.

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If a person has symptoms of nail inflammation, he will use the method of pulling his nails to let the nails grow again so that the nails can be restored as before. This method makes people who have suffered from dextrode inflammation feel scared and never want to experience it again.

Some children chew their nails in a mixed manner, and in severe cases, they will not turn into dexteritis. So if parents don’t want their children to suffer, they must let their children quit the bad habit of gnawing their nails.

, hand infection

Regular biting of nails can cause eczema of fingernails, infection, peeling, etc. Baby's fingers may become severely deformed, so avoid nail biting.

How to change the habit of biting your nails?

[Distance attention]

We should not directly stop children from biting their nails, but we can reduce such behaviors without silence. For example, transfer transfer power. When we saw the child stuffing his hand into his mouth, we could hold his hand and say, let’s play games together. Or find a challenging toy that the child is interested in and put into his hands and invite him to play with it.

Make the child's hands busy and divert attention. The child gradually forgot to bite his nails. However, when diverting attention, we mainly play with each other, rather than stuffing the toys to the child and leaving it alone. Parent-child companionship and interaction time can allow children to absorb strength and relax, so as to have a better state to face the pressure in life.

[ Reinforcement without punishment]

Don’t control the patient by scolding or punishment, but keep a calm and calm mind. Many nail biting behaviors are related to psychological tension. This kind of psychological tension cannot be controlled by oneself. Simple admonition will only aggravate anxiety and make bad habits worse.

calmly point out the patient's bad behavior, provide possible solutions and give clear praise and encouragement when short-term results are achieved.

[Use picture book stories to encourage]

You can buy a picture book for your child. Regarding love to bite your nails, etc. When reading this set of picture books, parents can change the names of the characters in it with their children's names.

Through the story, let her know the harm of nail biting and how to quit. For example, this sentence in the picture book: When you want to bite your nails, just hug your mother, it may work very well for children.