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Dermatophagia (from Ancient Greek δέρμα - skin - and φαγεία - eating) is a compulsion disorder of gnawing or biting one's own skin, most commonly at the fingers. This action can either be conscious or unconscious.^[1] Those affected with dermatophagia typically bite the skin around the nails, leading to bleeding and discoloration over time. Some people also bite on their skin on their finger knuckles which can lead to pain and bleeding just by moving their fingers. It has been proposed that dermatodaxia would be a more fitting term for this disorder, as the suffix-phagia' implies that the skin is being eaten rather than simply bitten.^[2] In most cases of dermatophagia in humans, the skin is only bitten with no consumption.^[3] In herpetology, dermatophagia is used to correctly describe the act in which amphibians and reptiles eat the skin they shed,^[4] but this is not what occurs in humans. Those diagnosed with this disorder do not develop wounds on the bitten areas of their hands or lose any skin. Instead, they experience a thickening of the skin being repeatedly bitten. This information implies that the skin is simply being bitten and chewed rather than eaten.^[5] Contemporary research suggests a link between impulse control disorders and obsessive–compulsive disorders,^[6] and this was addressed in the DSM-5 when dermatophagia and other related disorders were classified as 'other specified obsessive-compulsive related disorders' and are given the specification of body focused repetitive behavior.^[7] Further information on OCD, other anxiety disorders, dermatophagia and other related body focused repetitive behaviors can be found in the DSM-5^[8]

Behavior[edit]

People with dermatophagia chew their skin out of compulsion, and can do so on a variety of places on their body.^[9] Those with dermatophagia typically chew the skin surrounding their fingernails and joints. They also chew on the inside of their mouth, cheeks, and/or lips, causing blisters in and outside of the mouth. If the behavior is left unchecked for an extended period, calluses may start to develop where most of the biting is done.

Skin chewing can be bolstered by times of apprehension and other unpleasant events.^[9]Blisters in particular can cause a feeling of desire to pull or bite off the affected skin and nails (since the skin is dead, thus easily pulled off), which could be detrimental, causing infection. Another disorder, known as excoriation disorder, the repetitive action of uncontrollably picking at one's skin, can sometimes accompany dermatophagia. Dermatophagia differs from excoriation disorder in that the repetitive motion affected persons partake in is the biting of the skin.^[3] People who have dermatophagia can also be prone to infection as when they bite their fingers so frequently, they make themselves vulnerable to bacteria seeping in and causing infection. Dermatophagia can be considered a 'sister' disorder to trichophagia, which involves compulsively biting and eating one's hair.^[10]

Management[edit]

There is not yet a known way to remedy this in adults. Small things have been suggested to delay the urge a bit, such as chewing gum, and chewing on a soft drink straw. However, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists recommend replacing things that do not actually dissolve with edibles that would. For example, using gum would prolong and likely worsen the anxiety as there is no end for the activity. Using a chocolate chip or a hard candy allows the sufferer to visualize their problem fading away, which may in turn help clear the mind. Decoupling in sensu has recently been shown to decrease the condition in a published single case trial. ^[2]

Management in children with disabilities[edit]

There is no therapy known to effectively treat dermatophagia, but there have been attempts at stopping sufferers from being able to chew on their skin. One notable method that is currently in development is focused on in curbing dermatophagia in children with cerebral palsy. This method is known as the PLAY (Protecting Little and Adolescent hands) hands protective glove. This method of intervention involves small, non-invasive plastic brackets being placed around the affected fingers. These brackets do not hinder movement or tactile feedback, and they are constructed from non-toxic durable plastic that can withstand the force of chewing.^[11] Presently PLAY hands protective gloves exist in concept and prototype only, but this intervention method could improve the quality of life of those suffering from CP-induced dermatophagia.

In popular culture[edit]

In the movie Austin Powers in Goldmember, the titular villain eats flakes of his own skin that have already peeled off on their own (desquamation).

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

1. ^Scott, MJ; Scott, MJ (January 1997). 'Dermatophagia: 'wolf-biter''. Cutis. 59 (1): 19–20. ISSN0011-4162. PMID9013066.
2. ^ ^abMoritz, Steffen; Rufer, Michael; Schmotz, Stella (2020-03-29). 'Recovery from pathological skin picking and dermatodaxia using a revised decoupling protocol'. Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology. doi:10.1111/jocd.13378. ISSN1473-2130. PMID32227431.
3. ^ ^abHawsawi, Khalid Al; Pope, Elena (August 2011). 'Pediatric Psychocutaneous Disorders'. American Journal of Clinical Dermatology. 12 (4): 247–257. doi:10.2165/11589040-000000000-00000. ISSN1175-0561. PMID21548659. S2CID2037287.
4. ^Weldon, Paul (June 1993). 'A Survey of Shed Skin-Eating in Amphibians and Reptiles'. Journal of Herpetology. 27: 219–228 – via JSTOR.
5. ^Mitropoulos, Panagiotis; Norton, Scott (August 2005). 'Dermatophagia or dermatodaxia?'. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 53 (2): 365. doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2005.04.021. PMID16021151 – via JAAD.
6. ^Grant; et al. (January 2010). 'Impulse-control disorders in children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder'. Psychiatry Res. 175 (1–2): 109–13. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2009.04.006. PMC2815218. PMID20004481.
7. ^American Psychiatric Association (2016). Supplement to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. pp. 12–14.
8. ^American Psychiatric Association (2013). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
9. ^ ^abAl Hawsawi, K.; Al Aboud, K.; Ramesh, V. (2003). 'Dermatophagia Simulating Callosities'. Dermatology and Psychosomatics. 4: 42–43. doi:10.1159/000070535.
10. ^'Dermatophagia'. fingerfreak. FingerFreak.com. Retrieved April 27, 2009.
11. ^Houston-Hicks, Michele; Lura, Derek J.; Highsmith, M. Jason (September 18, 2016). 'Play Hands Protective Gloves: Technical Note on Design and Concept'. Technology & Innovation. 18 (2–3): 207–210. doi:10.21300/18.2-3.2016.207. ISSN1949-8241. PMC5218531. PMID28066530.

Picking up this album by Wolf Bites Boy after their recent very well received performance on the ‘new’ band stage at Rebellion Festival in Blackpool, I expected something good. Their live performance, so good as it was, meant that the merchandise stand outside the smallest of the festival stages struggled to keep up with demand. One of the joys of such a festival, is to come away with a list of bands new to you, seen and enthused by, and with the inclination to check out their back catalogue. In this case a début album by a band that sparked a real reaction in those that witnessed them.

So, Wolf Bites Boy. A punk rock band, with a smattering of Oi! – that street smart punk attitude genre and also with a healthy dose of rock’n’roll sensibility. A band split geographically by the Southern tip of the Pennines, being part Sheffield and part Stoke-on-Trent based. A band whose first album is probably one of the best UK Punk releases that I’ve heard for several years. In fact I’d go as far to say that it is probably my favourite Punk album since Texas band, Black Star Brigade released ‘They Think They Can Knock Us Down’ , which, criminally ignored as it was, should have propelled them to the same levels as RANCID. Okay, so WBB are not quite at that level…. yet… but they could be based on this offering.

So, what can you expect with this album?

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A more intelligent lyrical presentation is offered here than many of the bands peers in that whilst it covers the same subject matter; loyalty to friends, working class pride, punk pride, etc., what it doesn’t do is use the standard cringeworthy language. It has a feel of a yearning for the old times and youth but an acceptance of change but still with that punk attitude of not getting in flow with the rest of society. So songs like ‘Against The Grain’, ‘Fighting On’ with its “Don’t let the bastards grind you down” chorus and ‘Wear Your Heart With Pride’, flip the finger to those that would do you down and impose their will. Songs like ‘Gotta Get Away’, ‘Family Isn’t Always Blood’, ‘My Friend’ and ‘The Place That I Call Home’ deal with friendship, current and lost, in an intelligent way without being straight out of the ‘Ladybird book of street punk lyrics’. No generic lyrical content about ‘hanging out with the crew/gang’ and ‘fighting and drinking’.

Musically they have a stunningly good Punk Rock’n’Roll guitarist in Rob Lad. You can hear some great little licks in there, probably best shown in the song ‘Wear Your Heart With Pride’ where he cuts through the songs with a sound that could be Tim Armstrong banging out some Johnny Thunders licks. The fella also plays some nice off-beat rhythms as they throw in the odd ska feel; ‘I’ll Be There For You’. Some Punk bands can get that ska thing in there and not make it sound out of place and some can’t. These guys can and that may be because they have some level of love and respect for reggae and ska. Note their recent cover of Bob Marley on a 4 CD box set for Teenage Cancer Trust. There is also the fact that members of Stokes Ska heroes, The Rough Kutz, join them on a couple of tracks. ‘My Friend’, a song of lost friendship, disloyalty and ultimately of a lost girl has a beautiful, if too short, minor key lilting piano from a Rough Kutz member. It throws you on the first listen, unexpectedly coming out of the blue at you late in the album.

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Stu, bassist and vocals throws in some great little fast and rumbling bass lines which are sometimes a little too low in the mix to showcase them properly. Drummer, Paul, is not your average Punk 2/4 time signature player. So put them together and you have a tight little rhythm section that leaves room for a wall of guitar sound to lay over the top or for Rob’s guitar licks to dovetail in between them. It’s the ability to layer their sound that lifts them above the average two dimensional UK punk band into great UK band or even into the US band territory without ‘being’ US sounding.

If they improve on this album with their next then there is no reason for us not to have our own big name UK punk band again to rival the Fat Wreck Chords and Epitaph stable.

A gem of an album if this genre does it for you, so buy, blag or steal this… but get it!!!

Review: Mark Veitch

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