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can you get addicted to eating nailvarnish and tippex
My daughter is constantly applying nail varnish than the next thing she is chewing it off(my daughter is 14 years old) I have taken nail varnish away as she shares room with younger sister. Earlier this evening she came into the living room with white on her top lip. She freaked and went straight out when i asked what it was. When i went into her room there was tippex. She told me that she was chewing the top of the bottle??? So can she be addicted to eating it?? or do you think she could be sniffing it?? She was adament she hasnt inhaled it, i have searched the web but havent found much advice on eating it?? please could you help many thanks x
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Tippex is toxic, if she were eating it she would be sick. If it was on her upper lip it was probably pressed there while she sniffed.
Your daughter is using inhalants. You need to have a very serious talk with her. Of all the possible ways she could have found to intoxicate her shes found the one thats the most damaging.
Shes lying.
What shes probably doing is putting on nail varnish and sniffing the fumes while it dries, then chewing it off to supply her need for a nervous habit and so she can reapply it and sniff again.
The tippex thing is a clear sign. If she were eating that stuff she would be very, very sick right now. She lied about that which means she was lying about snorting it.
You need to be very careful how you approach this. Your daughter already seeks intoxicated states and has the instinct to hide it from you as much as she possibly can. If you freak out and lock her down completely shes just going to go more underground.
Talk to your husband, and consider talking to a family counselor about how best to begin to deal with this as a family.
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Addiction to inhaling solvents (as found in tippex and nail varnish) is more likely than addiction to eating it, but if it's the bottle that your daughter is chewing, it might be a habit like how some people bite their nails or chew their pens.
While tippex is poisonous if eaten, she should be fine as long as she stops eating it. (That is, it will not accumulate in the body.)
Regardless of whether she is addicted to the substance or just having a chewing habit, she is likely to need help stopping. Talk to her about it, take the tippex away, and give her chewing gum so that she can have something safe to chew.
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