| Nail biting generally results in the transfer of | | | | Some of these medications like some of the |
| germs from your nails into your mouth. It is the | | | | recent anti-depressants prove very effective. The |
| same at nail salons also. When nail salon tools are | | | | same medications like fluoxetine, clomipramine, |
| used on different persons, it could lead to | | | | paroxetine, sertraline, fluvoxamine, escitalopram, |
| infection. People generally find using the hands a | | | | citalopram, nefazodone and venlafaxine also prove |
| lot more difficult due to biting nails. Most of the | | | | effective in treating Trichotillomania (the |
| compulsive nail biters find it difficult to write, draw, | | | | compulsion to tear or pluck out the hair on one's |
| drive and type. Sustained biting for long period of | | | | head and face and often to ingest it) and OCD. |
| time could also lead to substantia adamantinea of | | | | These anti-depressants might be used with |
| the front teeth which could lead to caries. | | | | anti-psychotics in small amounts to enhance the |
| It is quite surprising that there are many who | | | | effectiveness of anti-depressants. Anti-psychotics |
| claim that hypnosis proves quite useful to stop nail | | | | like olazapine, risperidone, quetiapine, aripiprazole |
| biting. There are many who claim that sheer will | | | | and ziprasidone are generally used to cure |
| power could also do the trick. There is one more | | | | schizophrenia. But this doesn't mean that if you |
| popular option. It is using nail biting creams. You | | | | are being treated to stop nail biting with these, |
| need to paint your nails with this very bitter | | | | you are a psychotic. To stop biting nails, your |
| tasting nail cream and you are never going to put | | | | physician might use B vitamin inositol which |
| your nails in your mouth once you do it. | | | | enhances serotonin activity in the brain resulting in |
| These quit biting nails creams boast of some | | | | lessening of nail biting tendencies. |
| good characteristics. Creams to stop biting nails | | | | With medication one could also go for behavioral |
| generally contains aloe and vitamins A and E and | | | | therapy to stop biting nails. It starts with Habit |
| all the ingredients being used are natural. Stop | | | | Reversal Training (HRT) which includes four parts |
| biting your nails creams also works wonders for | | | | and intends to make you stop biting and if |
| your cuticles making it all smooth and makes your | | | | possible make you learn a better constructive |
| nails stronger. And there is no age bar as such for | | | | habit. Then you have the Stimulus Control therapy |
| using these creams. | | | | which is used to recognize and remove the |
| Despite all such good effects of stop nail biting | | | | stimulus for nail biting. |
| creams, the problem is that it is not a permanent | | | | Various aversion therapies exist to stop biting |
| solution. You apply the cream and its disgusting | | | | ones nails. It might be coating the nails with some |
| taste doesn't allow you to put the nails into your | | | | kind of special nail polish which tastes bitter. One |
| mouth. But once you stop applying the cream | | | | could war a rubber band on the wrist. Friends and |
| what happens? Yes, you revert back to the | | | | family members could also point out whenever |
| same old habit of biting your nails and all the good | | | | and wherever one starts nail biting. Eating chewing |
| effects that your nails and cuticles experienced | | | | gum has also helped some to stop biting my nails. |
| vanish. | | | | If you keep a record of your previous bites, it |
| It might sound surprising but there are many | | | | might reveal the reason for it. |
| types of medications available to stop nail biting. | | | | |