Hair Chewing

[DwarfMaster]

Inspired by the thumbsucker, pacifier child, eyelash puller & potty pooper......

My DD4 chews on her hair all the time!
What can I do to get her to stop? Everytime she does it I picture a cat choking on a hairball.

Any advice?

 

[mickeyboat]

Inspired by the thumbsucker, pacifier child, eyelash puller & potty pooper......

My DD4 chews on her hair all the time!
What can I do to get her to stop? Everytime she does it I picture a cat choking on a hairball.

Any advice?

Hannah does this on occasion. She also hates to have her hair combed when there are knots in it, and the hair-chewing contributes to that. So I remind her when I see it in her mouth, and she stops right away.

BTW - Hannah's hair is cut in an above-the-shoulders bob, so when she starts chewing on it, I know she needs a haircut.

Denae

 

[kmp1191]

I tell my dd6 that i'm going to cut it off if she doesn't quit.
it works for all of about 10 minutes!

 

[lyeag]

DD who is 7, used to do it a lot, and I still catch her from time to time. I keep it in a chin length cut, and I threaten to give her a high and tight like her dad and brother!

 

[Sthronds]

I used to do this all the time. I stopped when my 4th grade teacher embarassed me in front of the class. He told me he was going to get me earings that held ketchup and mustard so I could dip my hair in it before chewing. I was so horrified having my bad habit exposed in front of my friends that I never did it again. Now I think it's funny, but it did stick with me for 20 years.

 

[ChrisnSteph]

I used to do this when I was young. My mom's solution was to cut my hair to just above my shoulders - it worked!

 

[Sleepy]

I chewed my hair when I was a kid. My kept threatening to cut it like Shirley on Laverne and Shirley. Yep, lost all my hair one day.

 

[chell]

Wasn't there a thread on here recently about a teenager who had a huge hairball in her stomach? Or did I read it somewhere else?

 

[TammyAlphabet]

I did that too. So did my daughter. We both got short hair cuts. I started biting my nails and my daughter started chewing on her shirt.

 

[taeja71]

How about hairspray or hair gel? Spray your dd's bottom 1/2 w/ hairspray or put some hairgel in it. My dd does this too, why I don't know, but one day she didn't do it when I "styled" her hair.

 

[cati]

My DD5 wants her hair to grow really long. She started chewing on her hair and my DS told her that it would cause her hair not to grow. I have not seen her do it since.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I think you have to wait for her to outgrow it. I used to be a hair-chewer too..not just mine, but other people's! I thought that brown hair tasted like chocolate, red hair tasted like strawberry and blonde hair was lemon flavored.


TOV

 

[Aimeedyan]

I was a hair chewer, too (and a thumb sucker!) and in both cases I just had to outgrow it on my own. My parents rarely made a fuss about it and I started heading toward puberty and stopped both habits.

 

[mamacatnv]

My DD7 does this she, has really long hair and cutting it off or even threatening to is not an option for me. I just keep her hair pulled back in a pony or semi-pony as much as possible. She got a hair wrap at WDW in Dec and that is what I now see in her mouth all the time.

MamaCatNV

 

[DwarfMaster]

We don't want to cut it off just yet.
I guess I'll just have to keep it pulled back ~ and maybe add extra hairspray.

Hopefully she'll outgrown it soon ~ it drives me NUTS!

 

[aprilgail2]

I used to do this when I was young. My mom's solution was to cut my hair to just above my shoulders - it worked!

Thats what I did to my daughte rthe last time to...it was so gross seeing her hair in her mouth that I finally threatened to have it cut if she didn't stop...she didn't so off we went for a nice short hair cut....her hair is growing now and long enough for her to put back in her mouth but she has yet to do it...and if she does it will be another short haircut for her!

 

[golfgal]

Wasn't there a thread on here recently about a teenager who had a huge hairball in her stomach? Or did I read it somewhere else?

That would have been my DD only she was 6 at the time, not a teenager. She had a hairball, beazor is the technical name, all you Harry Potter fans should know that. She would chew/eat her hair. The hairball ended up being over a pound and the size of a football. It was really gross and the surgery to remove it didn't feel so great so that pretty much stopped her hair chewing. I wouldn't recommend this route though. You might want to try some bitter apple spray they use for dogs so they don't chew on things they aren't supposed to chew on.

 

[Mermaid02]

This habit bothers me more than nose picking. Makes me gag just thinking about it.

 

[BethanyF]

Wasn't there a thread on here recently about a teenager who had a huge hairball in her stomach? Or did I read it somewhere else?

I dont think I ever posted it here, but my sister had this happen when she was about 10. She had her appendix removed and they also found a good sized hairball. She twirled adn chewed her hair all the time. After the surgery she managed to stop chewing it, but she continued to do the twirling thing. She is an adult now and I have caught her on occassion twirling her hair. I think it's a nervous habit for her, kinda like nail biting.

 

[DwarfMaster]

That would have been my DD only she was 6 at the time, not a teenager. She had a hairball, beazor is the technical name, all you Harry Potter fans should know that. She would chew/eat her hair. The hairball ended up being over a pound and the size of a football. It was really gross and the surgery to remove it didn't feel so great so that pretty much stopped her hair chewing. I wouldn't recommend this route though. You might want to try some bitter apple spray they use for dogs so they don't chew on things they aren't supposed to chew on.

Oh No That sounds horrible.
Do you mind if I ask how they figured it out?

Where do you get this apple spray?