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	Nail biting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nail biting is the habit of biting one's fingernails or toenails during periods of nervousness, stress or boredom.
		Biting the nails can result in the transportation of germs that are buried under the surface of the nail into the mouth.
		Nail biting is, according to Freudian theory, a symptom of oral fixation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nail_biting (741 words)

	Nail Biting
		While nail biting and picking seems to be such a common problem, the psychological and medical research does not agree on an exact motivation for the action.
		Nail Biting is a habitual condition says Ronald Bronow,M.D., a dermatologist in private practice and assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
		Nail Biters are more often male than female after age 10 (10% fewer girls bite their nails than boys), and individuals with a higher rate of intelligence tend to bite their nails more than those of less intelligence.
	www.beautyweb.com /beauty_solutions/nails/nail_biting.htm (1044 words)

	Nail biting habit easy to start, hard to break
		Nail biting (or onychophagia) is an easy habit to start, but a hard one to break.
		Nail biting, which includes biting the cuticle and soft tissue around the nail, is a common problem.
		Nail salons report that between 25 percent and 70 percent of clients are nail-biters who are either trying to kick the habit or improve the appearance of their hands.
	www.azcentral.com /health/wellness/articles/0103nailbiting.html (477 words)

	Nail Biting, Ages 3 to 6 \| AHealthyMe.com
		Nail biting is the most common of the so-called "nervous habits," which include thumb sucking, nose picking, hair twisting or tugging, and tooth grinding.
		Nail biting is most common in high-strung and spirited children, tends to run in families, and is the most likely of the nervous habits to continue into adulthood.
		Nail biting that occurs primarily at times like this is probably your child's way of coping with stress or comforting herself; if that's the case, there's nothing to worry about.
	www.ahealthyme.com /topic/nailbiting3to6 (1330 words)

	Postgraduate Medicine: Severe nail deformity
		Nail biting is a nervous habit that usually begins in childhood and may persist into adulthood (1).
		Severe psoriasis of the nail matrix is a loss of the structural integrity of the nail, resulting in fragmentation, crumbling, and malformation (1).
		Another condition closely associated with nail biting is habit-tic deformity, which is commonly caused by frequent picking of the proximal nail fold of the thumb with the index fingernail (1).
	www.postgradmed.com /issues/2005/09_05/pd_jabr.htm (1113 words)

	NAIL BITING - Medicine terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The majority of experts believe that nail biting results as a mechanism for discharging everyday tension, similar to thumb-sucking.
		Nail biting frequently accompanies fear, sadness, nervousness, or distress.
		Treatment: Try to provide an incentive to avoid nail biting, such as symbolic awards (stars on a calendar, etc.).
	www.encyclopedia-wiki.org /encyclopedias/medicine/NAIL-BITING.html (55 words)

	Skin-Picking & Nail-Biting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These nail-biters continually bite their nails past the nail bed and their cuticles until they bleed and are constantly walking around with red, sore, and sometimes infected fingers.
		As with trichotillomania, skin picking and nail biting are considered to originate within the chemistry of the brain, and may well have an underlying genetic cause.
		Skin picking and nail biting are chronic problems, so there currently isn't a 'cure', but you can find a recovery if you are willing to work at it.
	www.homestead.com /westsuffolkpsych/SkinPicking.html (1785 words)

	Berkeley Parents Network: Nail Biting
		The nail biting has increased in frequency since his first birthday and now his nails are down to the quick.
		I began nail biting around that age and, in retrospect, think additional stress from a new sibling and another eye operations were factors.
		My daughter bites her nails even when she's relaxing at home, watching TV, and of course, when she's in a situation in which she feels unsure or anxious, one hand or the other is always in her mouth.
	parents.berkeley.edu /advice/worries/nailbiting.html (3265 words)

	Nail Biting - stop it using The MindFrame Technique
		Nail biting is not only one of the most common of all the 'oral compulsive' habits, it is also one of the most responsive to hypnotherapy.
		Nail biting can often simply be out of habit, or it could indicate an underlying anxiety.
		Nail biting is a nervous habit that most sufferers grow out of.
	www.mindframetechnique.com /nailbite.html (361 words)

	Nail Biting Basics
		Nail biting is common among children as well as adults.
		Although nail biting has not been extensively studied, it is attributed to stress.
		Nail biting is an extremely tough habit to break and treatment for it varies.
	www.selfgrowth.com /articles/Henry1.html (603 words)

	Nail biting: Why it happens and what to do about it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nail biting is the most common of the so-called "nervous habits," which include thumb sucking, nose picking, hair twisting or tugging, and tooth grinding, and is the most likely to continue into adulthood.
		If your child bites her nails primarily at times like these, it's just her way of coping with stress or comforting herself, in which case you have nothing to worry about (for exceptions, see "When to worry about nail biting").
		Consult your child's doctor if she's biting her nails so intently that her fingertips are sore or bloody, if her nail biting is accompanied by other worrisome behaviors, such as picking at her skin or pulling her eyelashes or hair out, or if her sleep patterns have altered considerably.
	parentcenter.babycenter.com /refcap/preschooler/pbehavior/65507.html (1365 words)

	Nail Biting
		Nail biting is quite a common habit in young children and adults.
		While young, boys and girls have equal tendency to acquire nail biting, but it is the boys who lead the pack of nail biters after the age of ten.
		There seems to be a propensity of former thumb suckers to take up the habit of nail biting, but there are plenty of children who bite their nails who never sucked their thumb.
	parenting.ivillage.com /gs/gsbehavior/0,,3qg5,00.html (529 words)

	Pediatric Advisor 2005.4: Nail Biting
		For example, try to figure out what stressful situations seem to cause your child to bite his nails (such as being bored, watching a suspenseful TV show, or getting frustrated with homework) and try to avoid those situations.
		Nails can also be smoothed so that they do not bother your child.
		More than 75% of those who bite their nails as adolescents will stop by the time they are 35 years of age.
	www.med.umich.edu /1libr/pa/pa_nailbite_hhg.htm (360 words)

	NAIL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		All finger nails and toe nails should be examined in good lighting with the digits relaxed.
		Nail clipping for microscopy and fungal culture should be done in suspected onychomycosis.
		Nail dystrophy in psoriasis is difficult to treat.
	www.hkmj.org.hk /skin/nail.htm (379 words)

	My Nail Biting Message Board!
		This one is very important since many nail biters might assume that ALL of their emotional or physical problems are related to nail biting and that if they quit, they will become perfect human beings.
		The real point here is that your nail biting (or not) should not affect your performance as a human being, regardless of your age...
		I feel that nail biting is a self mutilation habit, it also is an obsessive compulsive behavior.
	members.aol.com /Roseb441702/nail1.htm (4245 words)

	Control-IT! Finger Nail Biting Treatment
		The unique blend of all natural ingredients that provides a bitter taste to the nails more importantly delivers vitamins and nutrients to the nails and cuticles, ensuring rapid healing of hangnails that are often a trigger to bite.
		Many recent scientific studies have shown that treatment for nail biting and thumb sucking orofacial myofunctional disorders can be 80 to 90% effective in correcting harmful oral habits.
		Nail biting is an extremely tough habit to break and our treatment plan has been proven to work by
	www.stopbitingnails.com /naildc726.htm (1797 words)

	Stop your nail biting
		We not only target the habit, but we also attack the behavior that precedes nail biting (haven't you ever noticed that you always inspect your nails in minute detail before actually biting or picking?).
		The article mentioned that the technique might be useful for nail biting, but as yet, there was no data yet available for its usefulness or efficacy.
		As I detail in the book, nail biting is very well known, but not well understood.
	www.stopyournailbiting.com /faq.htm (1537 words)

	Control-IT! Finger Nail Biting Treatment
		Nail Biting Treatment® and our Gold Star Program represent a radical departure from the old methods of applying harsh chemicals to the nails, and in the case of breaking the habit in a child, nagging.
		A unique blend of natural ingredients combine to produce a bitter taste while simultaneously delivering the vitamins and nutrients to the nails and cuticles - ensuring rapid healing of hangnails that are often a trigger to bite.
		Helping your child end a thumb sucking or nail biting habit will result in improved health, greater self esteem and the prevention of potential dental/facial structure problems.
	www.stopbitingnails.com (1809 words)

	Nail biting: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nail biting is the habit of biting one's finger nail[For more, click on this link]s during periods of nervousness, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Other ways include making the biter aware of what s/he is doing and finding other things to do instead of biting.
		One may keep a record of when one bites to get to the root of the problem.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/na/nail_biting.htm (157 words)

	My Nail Biting Message Board! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		She really wants me to have nice nails, but at the same time, I am under more stress than ever before, as my husband is deploying for a year within the next two weeks.
		Her nails were bitten down so low that you could actually grab onto the tips of her fingers without touching any nails.
		And because I bite my nails my finger tips were wet and often the saliva caused the cuticles to dry out so much I would have skin sticking up and I would the proceed to bite that and pull.
	members.aol.com /Roseb441702/nailc.htm (4232 words)

	Views on Article - Nail Biting
		My advice to any young lady who bites her nails would be to perserve and stop the habit as soon as possible, or you too could end up with hands like mine.
		I went to a nail bar and they were great and with the help of false nails at first (which did stop me biting) and then manicures as my nails grew I managed to stop the bad habit.
		I've been biting my nails since I had teeth, they got so small the skin area between the end of the nail and the fingertip is longer than the nail and that's how I like it.
	www.indiaparenting.com /raisingchild/data/raisingchild024book.shtml (4628 words)

	Nail-Biting
		Her approach was to bring more love and nurturing to the child's fingers (scolding or otherwise telling the child to stop the behavior was ineffective).
		As she treated the area where the nail had been bitten down she explained each time how important the nails were for protecting the skin there.
		Somehow this quality of bringing the child into connection with her body and its needs, along with the loving care and tender touch from the mother, helped the child to change the habit in a very short time.
	www.flowersociety.org /Ask-FES/Ask-Nail-biting.htm (333 words)

	Your Child's Habits
		The next time you see your child biting his or her nails or twirling his or her hair, try to recall if your child has recently had a stressful experience.
		Or perhaps the explanation for your child's nail biting is in your mirror.
		ingrown or infected nails in the nail biter
	www.kidshealth.org /parent/emotions/behavior/five_habits.html (1789 words)

	Nail-Biting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		About 50% of children between the ages of 10 and 18 bite their nails at one time or another.
		Children may bite their nails more often when they are having problems at school or with friends.
		Children are more likely to stop biting their nails when they understand what may trigger it.
	www.bcbswny.com /kbase/topic/special/tw9722spec/sec1.htm (568 words)

	nail biting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nail biting (onychophagia {on-i-ko-FAY-juh, -jee-uh}) is another of the pretty harmless common tension relieving habits that humans adopt and other humans object to.
		Theoretically, nail biting can cause problems if the nail biter inhales fragments of fingernail, but in reality it is not a medical issue.
		Maybe the onset of nailbiting is your child's way of telling you that and perhaps you ought to listen harder.
	www.drhull.com /EncyMaster/N/nail_biting.html (103 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Health \| Nail biting 'damages IQ'
		Children who bite their fingernails may be damaging their IQ, a study suggests.
		Researchers in Russia say children who chew their nails are at greater risk of lead poisoning.
		This is because lead can gather under their nails simply by playing in dusty conditions, both indoors and outdoors.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/2798089.stm (443 words)

	Nail-biting: Why it happens and what you can do about it
		After all, many people describe nail biting as a "nervous habit." But anxiety is only one explanation for why children nip at their nails.
		Your toddler's nail biting is an unconscious habit, which means he doesn't realize he's doing it — until you call attention to it, of course — so nagging and punishing won't help.
		For example, if your child bites his nails so intensely that he tears his nail beds or bloodies his fingertips, or chews on his nails and engages in other self-destructive behaviors such as pulling his hair out, talk to his pediatrician.
	www.babycenter.com /refcap/toddler/toddlerbehavior/11559.html (801 words)

	Stop your nail biting
		Good site for data and statistics regarding nail biting behaviors (survey results are interesting).
		Good informative article; accurate data for the levels of nail biting among the general population.
		Good article on nail biting - directed to young girls and women, an audience that struggles often with this habit.
	www.stopyournailbiting.com /link.htm (267 words)

	Men Advice Dating Grooming Travel Health Work
		It is not uncommon for a SharpMan to resort to nail biting when he is feeling nervous before that big meeting or on the way to that hot date.
		If you've found that you bite your nails when you are on the telephone, keep a pad of paper by the phone and doodle with a pen instead.
		Nail biters are always tempted to bite off a sharp edge on a nail or a nail that is a little longer than the others.
	www.sharpman.com /Article.asp?ArticleID=597 (959 words)

	Welcome to your StoreFront Web Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This kit is perfect for men, women or children that would like to stop biting their nails.
		The "No Bite" Product is invisible and has an unpleasant taste that "stays on" even after hand washing several times.
		NO BITE is a fast and effective bitter nail bite deterrent formulated to stop the annoying and often painful nail biting habit allowing for healthy new nail growth.
	www.bodyartexpress.com /nail_biters.asp (192 words)

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