Don’t Bite Your Nails Again. Check out 5 reasons to stop biting your nails.

Regularly biting your nails can cause your teeth to shift out of place, which can require correctional braces or a retainer. Nail biting could also cause your teeth to break or could damage your tooth enamel. The germs could also potentially infect, or irritate, your gums. 

1. It increases the risk of infection

Biting your nails increases the risk of paronychia, an infection of the nail. Symptoms of paronychia include a painful, red, swollen area around the nail, often at the cuticle or at the site of a hangnail or other injury. infection is bacterial, there may be pus-filled blisters at the site.

Also, if you chew on nails that have warts—which are caused by a virus—and then chew on other nails, this can cause warts to spread to other areas. 

2. It’s bad for your teeth

It’s not recommended to use your teeth as tools, apart from chewing your food. Regularly biting your nails can cause your teeth to shift out of place, which can require correctional braces or a retainer. Nail biting could also cause your teeth to break or could damage your tooth enamel. The germs could also potentially infect, and irritate your gums.

Also, the bacteria that is on your fingers or nails can linger in your mouth and cause halitosis, or bad breath.

3. You can have more hangnails or ingrown nails

If you constantly bite at your nails, chances are you’ll bite off a bit more than you expected, and when a piece of torn skin at the root of your nail appears, that’s a hangnail. Hangnails are open sores that can easily become infected. The best way to avoid painful sores is to prevent the hangnail from forming in the first place by moisturizing regularly—and not chewing on your fingers.

4. There’s a risk of toxic poisoning

If gel polishes are your thing, you should kick the nail-biting habit sooner rather than later. Regular nail polishes have plenty of toxins themselves, but gel polishes have chemicals that can be harmful when ingested. Although the low amounts of toxicity likely won’t show any harmful effects right away, we don’t yet understand all of the potential long-term consequences.

5. There are a lot of germs under your fingernails

Even if you wash your hands frequently, it’s difficult to get all the germs and dirt from under your nails. So just imagine what you’re exposing your body to whenever you give these germs and dirt-free access to your mouth. 

Many people have nervous habits, such as pacing or fidgeting, and although many are harmless, if you bite your nails when you’re stressed or anxious, you are actually at risk for some ailments.

These reasons are enough for you to stop biting your nails which will help you so much.

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