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Nail Biting
Asked by C.E. from Albany
on August 24, 2008
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My two year old daughter has started biting her nails. She is a very observant little one and may have seen someone else do this, though my husband and I are not nail...
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- I used to bite my nails as a kid (my mom still does) but I broke myself of the habit in middle school when I wanted pretty nails =) My daughter started at the age of 2...
- There is a product called Mavala Stop! It costs between $7-11. I love this product - used it on my 3 y/o for thumb sucking and my 7 y/o for nail biting. Polish it on...
- I'd keep her nails closely-trimmed at first so there's nothing to nibble. If you're really worried about it becoming a habit, you might try dabbing some "thumb's off"...
Nail Biting
Asked by G.A. from Lakeland
on April 30, 2007
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help i don't no what else to do about my 3 year old son who is getting worse at biting his nails and now his fingers too the skin around it.I've tried the nail polish ...
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- My 3 year old son does the same thing! Nothing has worked for us yet, someone told me to put tobasco sauce on his fingers, i haven't tried that yet, sounds a little ha...
- G., When my one son was little he use to suck his thumb. There was a product called "Thumb Suck" that I use to put on his thumb to make him stop. It tasted awful, s...
- My 4 year old has been doing it for over a year now. The doctor said that it's a normal way for this age group to deal with anxiety.
Nail Biting
Asked by T.F. from San Francisco
on August 30, 2009
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My daughter bites her nails and recently starting pulling and biting the skin on her fingers. Before it was a bad habit and now it's a health issue. She barely has ski...
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- I'm almost 31 and still bite my nails. There were only two things that stopped the biting. One, was getting pregnant. I guess something in the hormone shift allowed me...
- Hi T., Is it possible her fingertips are peeling and she is responing to it by biting off the peeling skin? Vitamin A deficiecny can cause fingertip peeling. ...
- Good luck with this. my 18 year old daughter, my husband and my 88 year old mother in law bite their nails. We did get my daughter to stop biting the skin with the stu...
Nail Biting
Asked by V.S. from Lima
on October 22, 2009
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I have bitten my nails since I was a young kid. I still cannot seem to stop. I have tried the creams and the nasty tasting nail polish, but it's like nothing works. I ...
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- Dear V., I don't bite my nails but used to chew the inside of my right cheek, sometimes until it bled. I started taking a teaspoonful of molasses every morning bec...
- V. I had to go to extremes to quit biting my nails. When I was 23 I had to have all, yes all of my teeth pulled and got dentures. Now I keep my nails to a nice leng...
- Have you ever had artificial nails? You might give them a try, at least for a few months (maybe even 6 months). I guess you could still bite them, but it is much har...
How to Stop Nail Biting
Asked by A.A. from Kalamazoo
on September 5, 2006
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Not long after my baby boy was born, my little girl started biting her nails. I think it started because I was so busy, I probably neglected her nails for too long in...
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- A., I don't know how to stop it - but I wish I did. My son is 2 1/2. I don't have any other children yet - although I am pregnant. He started biting his nails a...
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- Have you tried putting nail polish on her nails? When you first put it on, the odor isn't great and might keep her from biting, but also she may not want to mess up h...
Nail Biting
Asked by K.C. from Pueblo
on October 16, 2008
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There is a terrible habit going on in my house that I need help breaking - NAIL BITING. My spouse bites his nails and so do my stepsons. Our 2 year old daughter has re...
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- go see Sandra Coulson - ###-###-#### She is a miracle worker with kids of all ages and adults!
- There is a product called Thum Stops. It not only stops thumb sucking but also nail biting. Walgreens sells it. Here is the page with product description. Good luck! ...
- There's also a product called Bite Free. I used it on my oldest DD and so far its worked. Although she was not happy with me at all!! it tastes nasty!! Just look in...
Nail Biting!
Asked by K.V. from Richland
on April 19, 2010
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My son will be 3 in July and for the past 3 or 4 weeks he has been biting his fingernails. I can't figure out why or how to get him to stop this horrible habbit. I'm...
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- At this age, the habit of biting the nails or cuticles can become just that, a habit. It doesn't have to signal anything. My daughter tried it, very briefly, because s...
- Even 3 year olds can get stressed out. It doesn't mean he's traumatized, but that something is stressing him out or maybe he's just teething with this molars coming in...
- My 13yr dd has done it for a long time, and one day she came to me and said there is a nail polish that I want. She looked it up online and found the one she thought w...
Nail Biting
Asked by J.C. from Seattle
on January 1, 2009
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My almost-3-year-old has recently started biting her fingernails. It has become frequent, intense, and loud. It makes me very sad, because I bit my nails to the quic...
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- J., My son did the same thing, and he's now 5. I think he bit his nails partly out of anxiety, and partly who knows why. The more attention we drew to it, the mo...
- My daughter is now 9. When she was 3 she started to bite nails, I would get after her so then she started to suck/chew on her thumb. I would get after her for that ...
- Try clipping them so they are short but no edges and trimmed. Also find out what she's biting at. I think if you clip them, put a great cream on them and maybe get h...
Nail Biting
Asked by V.S. from Lima
on September 18, 2009
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Ever since I was young, I have always bitten my nails. When I went on maternity leave when my daughter was born, my nails grew so fast and I didn't bite them. I've bee...
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- Paint Bitters on your nails. They will taste so bad you won't put them in your mouth. It dries colorless. To help strenthen your nails eat jello or add knox gelatin...
- Nail biting is a really bad habit and many folks have it to the point that thier fingers will bleed. I think if they realised how dirty thier finger nails get that the...
- Try this product by OPI called Nail Envy. I also bit my nails forever and this product helped me alot!
Nail Biting
Asked by J.G. from Modesto
on October 19, 2009
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My 2-yr-old daughter just started chewing/biting her nails. She chews them down to the quick--every one. I've tried to tell her not to bite her nails when I catch he...
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- Hi J. ALl my life I have had this habit so much so that as a 5 yr old my mom had to take me to the doctor's to have a nail looked at because I had picked at it so m...
- You might try giving her pacifier back before the nail-biting gets entrenched. You can always take it away later when she is more ready. You could have her evaluated...
- My DD started about 5, and we tried everything. (she also liked to pick scabs). We even used bite stop nail polish,band aides and even threatened to take away her BELO...
