Nail biting in children may be caused by micronutrient deficiencies, emotional stress or imitative behavior, etc. According to the different reasons, you can choose to supplement the micronutrients, psychological care, positive guidance and other different methods to improve the situation.
1. Micronutrient deficiency: when a child lacks zinc, iron and other micronutrients in the body, a decrease in appetite and xenophagy can occur, resulting in the child liking to bite nails. Parents can take their children to the hospital for examination to clarify the types of trace elements that are lacking, and then supplement the corresponding trace elements. For example, zinc deficiency can be supplemented with oral zinc glycyrrhizate and ferrous succinate.
2. Emotional tension: Children usually study under greater pressure can lead to long-term tension, anxiety, nail biting behavior. You can reduce the child’s learning burden, more outdoor activities, or more with the child to eliminate their bad mood, nail biting behavior can be improved.
3. Imitation behavior: small children have a strong ability to imitate, may be due to watching movies and television or see people around them biting their nails and imitate. Parents need to fully guide the child, tell him/her that nail biting is a bad behavioral habit, the child should be praised for progress, so as to gradually correct the nail biting behavior.
If a child bites his/her nails, parents can take the child to the hospital for a checkup to determine the cause, and then under the guidance of a professional doctor for treatment or behavior modification.