Most babies will not eat their fingers at 18 to 24 months. If babies still have the symptom of hand eating after 24 months, it is not a normal performance.
Generally, babies will have a micturition period during infancy, during which babies will get satisfaction by sucking their fingers. However, as babies get older, most babies will relieve the symptoms of finger eating after 18 months, but a few babies may relieve the symptoms of finger eating after 24 months.
If your baby is still frequently eating fingers after 24 months, it is not a normal phenomenon and parents need to intervene promptly to avoid your baby from developing the bad habit of finger eating.
It is recommended that if your baby still has the habit of finger eating after 24 months, parents need to help your baby to improve the bad habit in time. If necessary, parents need to take the baby to the doctor for examination to clarify whether it is caused by disease. For diseases that cause finger-eating symptoms in babies, doctors will choose appropriate measures to treat the cause of the disease.