Remedies to stop biting your nails

Onychophagia, or habit of biting the nails, is a habit that has no age or sex. This disease is suffered by millions of people, and it tends to get worse in situations of stress, fear or anxiety.

Although many doctors do not consider them effective, today I brought some Remedies what my grandmother taught me to stop biting your nails. Some of these remedies are:

• Heat some olive oil and then dip your fingers in it. The oil should not be too hot, just a little warm. In addition to the fact that we will not put our fingers in our mouth because we will have the taste of the oil on our nails, the hot oil will help our nails to be stronger and grow faster.
• Take a chili pepper or hot pepper and rub it on your nails. Make sure it does not touch your skin as it can irritate it. Trying to bite your nails will cause so much discomfort in your mouth that you won't want to do it anymore.
• Putting on false nails for a while, you surely don't want to eat plastic nails. This will give the nail underneath time to grow sufficiently

Keep in mind that this disease is psychological, you should start by trying to control your anxiety and set short goals, such as: "Today I do not eat nails", or have a notebook where you write, at what times of the day is when you want to bite your fingers. In this way you would be realizing what triggers this habit. It is very important that you try to keep your nails short and filed, this will avoid the temptation to eat them.

Always remember that whatever your habit is, you should not replace it with another, that is, if you are trying to stop biting your nails, do not replace this habit by smoking or eating more, you would not be going to the bottom of your problem but simply changing it for another.