Category: Health

There are ladies and gents who gently bite and then chew the nails, and possibly ingest the bits as snack.

Nail biting is a very strong bad habit, in that once started, it’s difficult to quit. As a guy, nail biting is the number one thing that turns me off, though I try my best not to let it overshadow sweet personality traits I find in people. In a live conference concerning nail biting, a friend jokingly said, “Nail biters cannot get laid.” But what he didn’t know was whether nail biters can’t get laid due to the fact that they bite their nails, or whether they become nail biters due to their inability to get laid. Before we get to the solutions for stopping the horrible habit, let’s clear some double standards here.

The double standards. According to ‘postyour.info‘,^[1] ten percent of men surveyed admitted they bite their nails almost everyday, compared to just five percent of females surveyed, who agreed they commit the same atrocity almost everyday as well. However, our culture tends to push the badness of nail biting towards females. That is, you can see a guy freely biting his nail in the public, but same is a no-no for a girl to do.

Types of nail biting, plus how bad it really is. I must admit that it is worse to have this habit publicly than privately. You might have been thinking, how bad is nail biting? But here’s something — it gets worse depending on the type. There are people who do the “bite and spit.” Let me explain. A guy or girl bites out a chunk of his or her dirty nail, and then spits it into a random direction. You can hear the sound, and you might even flinch a bit, worrying that the piece of nail might have been spat on you. Then there’s the “bite and chew.” There are ladies and gents who gently bite and then chew the nails, and possibly ingest the bits as snack. You tell me which one sounds worse! Plus, nail biting is no longer assumed to be just a bad habit — science pros now declare that it is a mental disorder, an obsessive-repulsive disorder to be specific; it can be harder to quit than smoking cigarettes.^[2] Now let’s get to solving the issue!

Quitting nail biting. If you really want to quit nail biting, it’s actually easy! Here are solutions I have found:

1. Get some bubblegum. While it may look unethical to chew a gum in a formal public, it has more potential to be favored over biting your nails in front of your professor or coworkers. Trust me, it will be near difficult to bite your nails while you’re chewing a gum.
2. Bitterleaf! Yep. Bitterlieaf is an edible species of Vernonia, commonly eaten as leaf vegetables.^[3] However, it tastes extremely bitter. You should squeeze out a little juice from the leaf, and rub the juice beneath your fingernails before you go to bed each night. You’ll find out that the slap of bitterness you get from your fingernails whenever you try to bite them will keep you more socially acceptable.



3. Get less depressed. Try to increase your good moods and happiness. Physical exercises, positive celebrations, richer nutritional intakes, visitation of loved ones, helping those who could use your help, entertaining yourself by going to the movies with people — to mention but a few — may help brighten your day and likely distract you from your nails.

Curing nail biting is possible and can be easy, especially when you start the procedure by first stopping yourself from doing it in public, and then finally in private. In fact, my recommendation is to first get rid of the public side of the issue, and then work at a more comfortable pace to finally clean up the habit from you. Rest assured that these Supreme Tips are expected to be extremely useful to you; I’d also like to advise you to consult a professional before giving any of these awesome tips a try.

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“Wear sunglasses even indoors.”

Are you having that moment when you first feel really good, happy and healthy, only to be suddenly struck with an allergy? Allergies can ruin happy moments and worsen depression. You may definitely find it difficult to work or study while suffering from allergies. I myself am a strong victim of this trauma, but I always fight and defeat it. Taking medication is of course inevitable, but there are even more interesting things you can do to fight allergies more fiercely, alongside medication. Here is what I do:

1. First take the medication. Whenever I sense the early signs (itchy throat, mildly watery nose or eyes), I jump to my Loratadine Tablets USP Antihistamine and take one tablet. As you can see, it is stated that we may only take one tablet per day ^[1] however I always feel this is not enough since my allergy symptoms resume a few minutes after an interception by the medicine. In some cases, I see the allergy disappear for the season when I take the pill as early as I experience the symptoms. But if that’s not the case, I then follow the next step.
2. Wear sunglasses even indoors. The eyes tend to get more sensitive to light during ocular allergies ^[2] . Without my sunglasses, looking at the computer can feel like punishment, especially when the allergy is severe. I normally wear sunglasses during the day or near bright areas, almost throughout the course of my severe allergies.
3. Get more sleep. Sleeping helps the body repair and freshen itself ^[3] . One depressing thing for me is that sometimes the allergy won’t even let me sleep well. I often have watery eyes and nose during sleep. One trick I do for the nose part is that I sleep while facing upwards. More sleeping hours help battle my allergies.
4. Take more of hot meals or drinks. I have found for myself, that I feel much better whenever I take less cold food and more hot ones. So my advice here is that you try that too.
5. Do some physical fitness exercise. For those with nasal blockage, “exercise may even help you feel better by opening your nasal passages and temporarily relieving nasal congestion.” ^[4] Doing mild physical fitness exercises have helped me through my allergies. My favorite is running. You can also try jumping jacks or skipping rope, or check out your favorite physical fitness exercise routine and do it more often.

Doing these five things really helped relieve my allergy symptoms and remove almost, if not all, of the associated miseries. Of course this is not medical advice, so I urge you to consult a professional before trying these thrilling tricks against the infamous seasonal allergies.

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