Nail Biting Treatments To Minimize Your Chance of MRSA

Since posting about MRSA and nail biting, a few "skeptics" have asked me the same questions:


"Are staph infections that easy to get?"

Well the answer is "yes" and "no." If you don't wash your hands, and continue to bite your nails sooner or later you will put staph bacteria in your mouth. If you are unlucky or circumstances aren't in your favor, then yes, you will end up with a staph infection.

If you use good hygiene, wash your hands and avoid people with staph infections you probably won't catch a staph infection.

But people who are into nail biting put their fingers in their mouth when they bite their nails. When they do this bacteria of many types can enter their body. Also people who are nail biters frequently have cracked and bleeding cuticles where bacteria can easily enter.

"Is it REALLY true you could get MRSA by nail biting and die? Or is this just hype?"

Can't say I blame those wondering if MRSA is just hype, either. But people are dying from MRSA.

Just Google MRSA deaths. In the UK according to Medical News Today Superbug MRSA deaths up 1400% in a decade. And so many of the deaths are preventable, just by washing your hands.

Don't take my word for it. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) says "While 25% to 30% of the population is colonized with staph, approximately 1% is colonized with MRSA." Colonized just means the staph bacteria or even worse the MRSA bacteria lives in their bodies.

The staph bacteria or even the MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphyloccus Aureus) doesn't cause these carriers of the bacteria problems. The carriers can cause you problems especially if you are a nail biter.But if they cough, sneeze or spread the bacteria around by not washing their hands you could pick staph bacteria. If you are a nail biter you could touch a surface the MRSA carrier has coughed or sneezed or touched.

So I decided to post this video from YouTube about how easy bacteria is spread around. You'll never look at snacks in the lunch room the same way ever again.

It's all about changing the nail biting habit,

Sunny