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My 4 year old daughter has a habit of eating nails and skin around the nails. Tried applying neem oil and femite but still the habit exist. Can you please suggest a way to stop this as now she has started biting her toe nails too
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ExpertVandana SharmaNutritionist4 years agoA. Hello mom this condition is called as Dermatophagia . Where in the person repetitively tend to eat their nails and skin around it etc it’s is also called as body focused repetitive behaviour
Make sure you regularly cut the nails, keep their hands and mouth busy , distract them whenever you see , coat them with bad taste
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