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How Can I Prevent My Grandchild From Biting Knuckles ?

my grandchild age 5 years has the habbit of knuckle biting? can you advise treatment or any medicine to stop biting nailk? what the cause of biting knuckles?
Tue, 31 Jan 2012
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Welcome to HCM.
There is no any specific medicine for it.
Try to divert his mind in other activity which he like the most.
There is no any specific condition in which child do it.,it is just bad halbbit.
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How Can I Prevent My Grandchild From Biting Knuckles ?

Welcome to HCM. There is no any specific medicine for it. Try to divert his mind in other activity which he like the most. There is no any specific condition in which child do it.,it is just bad halbbit.