Ok, you know that Maria chews on her entire fingertips, right? And how she got a fever blister on her finger because of a sore in her mouth that moved to open cuts on her fingers from chewing on them? And how they told me she could spread the sores to "other places" (said significantly by the doctor with eye contact with me)? Well, that wasn't enough to scare her off of chewing on her nails and nothing I've tried so far has worked (nasty tasting stuff, gloves, bandaids, just keeping her close and pulling her hands out of her mouth constantly, etc). But I told her all about this experience of yours with as much gruesome detail as possible and I haven't seen her fingers in her mouth for almost a full day now. Heh.
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