Top five reasons to stop biting your nails

Fingernails contain germs No matter often you wash you nails, it is difficult to get all the germs and dirt from under your nails. Once the germs that were under your fingernails get into your body, your chances of illness increase significantly.

Risk of toxic poisoning If you polish your nail with gel, then in that case it is best that you kick the nail-biting sooner rather than later. Regular nail polishes have plenty of toxins themselves, but gel polishes have chemicals that can be harmful when ingested. Biting your nails increases the risk of infection and if the infection is bacterial, there may be plus-filled blisters at the site. Nail biting is also bad for your pearly whites.

It's bad for your teeth Apart from chewing your food, you should not use your teeth as tools. Regularly biting your nails can cause your teeth to shift out of place, which can require correctional braces or a retainer. Besides this, nail biting can led to cause your teeth to break or could damage your tooth enamel.

More Ingrown nails If one constantly bite at your nails, chances are you will bite off more than you expected, and whena piece of torn skin at the root of your nail appears, that's a hang nail. Hangnails are open sores which can easily become infected.

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