It’s probably not one of my more attractive qualities, but I tend to bite and gnaw on my skin. I’m forever nibbling at the skin around my fingernails (interestingly, I don’t bite my fingernails), pulling off and eating the calluses on my feet and all scabs eventually enter my digestive track. I’ve never eaten anyone else’s skin, but I had a girlfriend who let me tongue her dried and cracked cuticle and would’ve eaten it if she hadn’t objected. Is there any scientific reason I to explain why I do this? Am I trying to supplement something that’s missing from my diet?
I do the same with my cuticles but I don’t intentionally eat them. . . well, I guess I do sometimes. But, I guess that’s not the focus of why I do it.
But, you mean, you pull scabs off and eat them? That seems very strange to me. Have you googled?
This sort of question is best put to a medical professional.
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Gfactor
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I changed my mind on this one. I’m reopening it for now.
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Did you try it and enjoy it too much to pass up an answer? 
Thank you. I don’t believe I have a medical condition—though someone might posit that I have a mental condition. 
God, I hope not. :eek:
My guess is some form of OCD, but of course IANAD.
Of the treats offered on the epidermis menu, scabs are rare delicacies. Peeling skin from a sunburn would have to be desert.
A little salty, a little oily, certainly not the strangest thing people have eaten with those qualities.
Do you have them with fava beans and a nice Chianti?
You are what you eat?
I have many OCD tendencies and a couple of serious phobias.
Do you get enough vitamin A?
Walter.P.Higgens believes in recycling.
In general it has been generally debunkedthat cravings are related to nutritional needs.
Well it’s better than eating somebody else’s skin.
No, no, you eat what you are.