Millions of people around the world are suffering from addiction to the habit of biting nails and many doctors consider taking them harder than quit smoking!
Health experts today, in one of their studies on addiction to nail bites, have come up with a somewhat strange new result of classifying this addiction as a mental disorder that falls under obsessive-compulsive disorder.
According to the Daily Mail, the American Psychiatric Association is preparing to change the description of biting nails into obsessive-compulsive disorder, which also includes other types of addiction, such as frequent handwashing and hair tightening.
According to Dr. Carol Matthews of the University of California, biting nails is not a serious disturbance unless damage and pain reaches advanced levels of brutality.
The bite of the nails in the injury of those who practice this addiction diseases, especially cold, because this process encourages the spread of bacteria from nails to the mouth and lip.
A number of people who quit their habit of nibbling nails are advised to place drops of lemon juice or hot spices in small amounts on nails or to put medical labels such as those used to cover wounds.