Dutchman offers 'cure' for nail biting

AP on Yahoo ^ | 9/7/07 | Arthur Max - ap

[NormsRevenge]

In Boot Camp, Marine recruits had to wear gloves 24 hours a day. You got over biting your nails to the nubs real quick.

[NormsRevenge]

After developing his solution over two years and working with about 150 pilot customers, Van Abbe refitted a gabled brick house in Venlo, near the German border, with reclining leather manicurists’ chairs where cosmeticians can begin reviving damaged finger and toe nails.

Yes, some of his clients habitually bite their toe nails, including one man in his 40s, Van Abbe said. “If you start young, you stay flexible.”

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Oh yeah.

[TASMANIANRED]

If it really OCD the behavior will just transfer to doing something else compulsively like nose picking, or hand washing .

[Eccl 10:2]

I can think of one Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior that I’ll bet they never find a cure for...

[Joe 6-pack]

"Marine recruits had to wear gloves 24 hours a day."

A Habanero pepper placed on each finger tip solves the problem in well under 24 hours...

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Also due to stress...

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Scotch Bonnets

[dighton]

Dutchman offers ‘cure’ for nail biting

Slim chance of biting one’s nails while standing amidst the tulips with all fingers in the dike.

[irishtenor]

Just don’t go to the bathroom :>)

[Joe 6-pack]

"Just don’t go to the bathroom :>)"

Or as I learned the hard way...mess around with your contact lenses.

[irishtenor]

Ouch. I did learn my lesson... bathroom :>)

[sinanju]

That happened to me one evening when I was cooking Szechuan (toasted crushed Szechuan peppercorns, dried red peppers sliced open and seeds removed). Five minutes after, er, doing my business a warm tingle rapidly crescendoed to a sensation impossible to do justice to with the written word.

[elizabetty]

I was thinking the same thing.

[B4Ranch]

Or you learn to like Habanero peppers, which I do. Don’t bite my nails though and don’t play with my eyes either.

[beaversmom]

Yes, some of his clients habitually bite their toe nails, including one man in his 40s, Van Abbe said. "If you start young, you stay flexible."

For the longest time I couldn't figure out why my middle child's nails and toenails never needed to be cut. Come to find out, he bites his nails and toenails--he's only five but he's done this since he was a toddler.

[beaversmom]

Picture off the web of a finger nail biters hands

[irishtenor]

I was making a hot paste. Chopped 10 habenjeros very fine, put in pot with liquids, and boiled it down.

Somewhere in there I got my fingers coated with oil, went to the bathroom... and ended up blistered! Try explaining that to the wife :>)

[Jaysun]

Yes, some of his clients habitually bite their toe nails, including one man in his 40s, Van Abbe said. "If you start young, you stay flexible."

God help me.

[ran20]

I'm also trying to market my treatment for the affliction of nail biting. I put you in this little contraption. And one of my orderlies wheels you to your office at your job, or wheels you between your courses at college. Like the mouth guard you only have to wear this for a month long treatment.