For those that do not know, Dermatophagia is defined by Google as “Dermatophagia or dermatodaxia is a compulsion disorder of gnawing or biting one’s own skin, most commonly at the fingers. This action can either be conscious or unconscious and it is considered to be a type of pica.”
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Which parts of your body do you bite and do you take skin off? I bite the skin around my nails, not sure if this is the same or just a migration from nail biting!
Oh hey I have that too! My poor thumbs and lips are raw. Have you found anything that helps at all?
My wife does this. Open cuts. Doesn’t this hurt?
What age did it start? How old are you now?
Can you correlate it with anything?
Does anyone else in your family have this disorder?
Have you had complications? Skin infections? Scarring?
What non-medical remedies have you tried? Like, putting vinegar or garlic in your fingers so you won’t like the taste – kinda of grandma remedy?