Nail-biting is known as onychophagia. It initiates as a benign behavior in childhood and becomes self-mutilative behavior in adolescents. Nail-biting is often practiced while the person is under frustration, stress, and anxiety. It can remain associated with other conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, major depressive disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Nail-biting can be stopped by often trimming nails, polishing nails with bitter polish, and wearing tapes on the fingernails.
Hi,Welcome to icliniq.com.If the skin remains painful and swells up with reddish discoloration, then you should be concerned and seek antibiotics if needed. Otherwise, just relax.
Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. Every swelling is not cancer. It can be a fibroma. It occurs due to trauma or biting lips. The second one is a mucocele. It is a swelling of sebaceous glands.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. The picture (attachment removed to protect patient identity) looks like a small bumpy growth. I am not able to see it clearly if it is flat or bumpy.
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