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Health Tip: Don’t Bite Your Nails

By ariannawmd on November 1, 2013

Nail biting is a common way to cope with anxiety or boredom, but it’s an unhealthy habit.

Here’s what the Nemours Foundation has to say about the dangers of nail biting:

Biting your nails prevents them from doing their job, from helping to pick up small objects to scratching an itch.
Biting nails can lead to tiny openings in the skin, which can trigger an infection.
Germs that lurk beneath your nails can enter your mouth while you’re biting them.

Source: HealthDay

Are You Living with Psoriasis?

A growing knowledge of the skin disease called psoriasis is leading to greater treatment choices, including personalized therapies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reports.

Psoriasis is an immune system disorder that causes overproduction of skin cells, resulting in scaling, pain, swelling, redness and heat. The condition affects about 7.5 million Americans.

“As we better understand the disease, researchers know more about what specific factors to target in order to develop effective treatments,” FDA dermatologist Dr. Melinda McCord said in an agency news release.

There is no cure for psoriasis, so the main goals of treatments are to stop skin cell overproduction and reduce inflammation. Current therapies include medicines applied to the skin (topical), light treatment (phototherapy), or drugs taken by mouth or given by injection.

Doctors used to take a step-by-step approach, starting patients with mild to moderate psoriasis on topical therapy. If that was ineffective, doctors moved on to phototherapy or drug treatment.

Health Tip: Don’t Bite Your Nails

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