Why is a 3-year-old girl always biting her nails recently?

Forget about sucking your fingers, what’s going on with biting your nails?

If the baby just sucks his thumb, Mommy said: Forget it, what baby doesn’t suck? But slowly, Bao started biting his nails. What was going on?

The so-called nail biting, also known as onychomycosis or onychophagia, refers to the repeated voluntary or involuntary behavior of biting fingernails. Well, there are also a small number of biting toenails.

This bad habit is actually more common in babies’ childhood, especially in babies between 3 and 6 years old. It can happen to both boys and girls. Most babies will bite their nails as they age. The behavior disappears on its own, with the exception of a few stubborn cases that persist into adulthood.

How exactly? Xiao Nan remembered that there were foreign reports before, saying that about 50% of babies will exhibit this behavior at a certain period, but as age increases, the incidence rate decreases.

So, why does Bao like to bite his nails?

Mom, think about it, if you were nervous, would you twist your clothes or something like that? Even if you are young, your baby will also be nervous, especially when the pace of life changes. For example, when you are in kindergarten or elementary school, your baby will be easily nervous. By the way, this symptom can also be easily induced when little ones are sick. Some babies bite their nails purely to imitate others.

Relatively speaking, babies with obvious personality traits such as introversion, sensitivity, and anxiety are prone to biting their nails. Of course, some babies bite their nails for reasons that even doctors don’t know.

The baby bites his nails repeatedly, biting and biting, the mild ones just bite the nails, and the serious ones, there is no upper limit - biting each nail, and even biting the skin around the nails, a few babies Also focused on the toenails.

Is this symptom just as simple as biting your nails? NO, in addition to nail biting, some babies also have other problems, such as sleep disorders, hyperactivity, anxiety, nervousness, tic disorders, finger sucking, nose picking, etc... Also, babies with stubborn symptoms will also suffer from it at night. When she bites her nails, does she feel like crying?

So, we must correct it.

Xiao Nan will talk about the general treatment first -

First of all, Daddy Mommy must realize that Bao Ai biting her nails is a disease. If you only use beatings, scolding or punishment, it will only Let Bao's condition worsen.

Now that we realize it is a disease, we need to find out the cause, right? Then we can improve Bao's living environment in time and cultivate healthy living habits, right?

Mama Nei also needs to trim her baby's nails regularly to prevent nail infection and epidermal damage.