Is it normal to bite and eat the skin on your fingers?

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it might sound a little disgusting, but i love to bite or peel the skin off my finger and eat them, every time there's a bit of skin popping up i have a desire to peel it off and bite it and eat it.
before i bite my fingernials, but then I stopped it; now I started to bite my skin around my fingernials, like the skin on my fingertips
Also, I bite the layer of skin inside my mouth near my lips, then i eat them...
I wonder if i have a lack of any minerals in my body? IIN?

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  • shuggy-chan
    12 years ago

    BITCH, im not weird, im recycling

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    I have eczema and I peel the dried skin and chew it.

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  • jc25
    11 years ago

    As long as you're only biting the dead parts.

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  • RaNdOmPoPcOrN
    11 years ago

    I do!!!

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  • EllyBean
    12 years ago

    I do that too. Then I think "why did I just do that? That's really gross."

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  • j-man20
    12 years ago

    I KNOW THAT FEEL BRO. some days i have bitten my fingers so much that i can barley type.

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  • happythankyoumoreplease
    12 years ago

    lol @ shuggy-chan yeah I do this too, I don't think I'd consider it healthy but meh, whatever :P

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  • joybird
    12 years ago

    Use cuticle oil to stop this skin becoming so dry and hopefully you'll stop.

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  • NotSoMuch
    12 years ago

    I only realise, I've done it after doing the dishes and the marks around every fingertip become VERY visible

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  • Shrunk
    12 years ago

    Yeah I do it too, I wouldn't peel it off though that sounds gross, supposedly it's due to a lack of protein.

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  • LookSomeonesWelding
    12 years ago

    I do the exact same thing with the fingers, but I bite the outside of my lip, though.

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  • Avant-Garde
    12 years ago

    I just bite the skin.

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  • NothingSpecial
    12 years ago

    I do that too.

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