Other titles: “chip” under the fingernails

Visible changes in the nails may indicate how insignificant minor injuries, such as lack of certain nutrients, or even more serious problems such as mold, requiring specific treatment. The nails men appear frequently these characters: the white spots, grooved surface, or change the overall color of the nail.

White spots are the result of a minor injury, such as a sharper hit the nail on a hard surface. Can not be removed, but grow up, and their presence should not indicate anything serious. Healthy nails should be smooth, so grooved or fluted surface might suggest that something is amiss. Grooved nails are more common in smokers, whose body is persistently elevated content of toxic substances.Grooves may also be a reflection of a malfunction of the digestive tract.

Change the color of your nails, for example, blue can mean insufficient supply of oxygen to the body, that may point to a malfunction of the lungs or the bloodstream. Yellow nails in addition to smokers also occur in fungal nail disease, mostly from moist environments.

Sources indicate that in addition to more or less trivial and cosmetic issues may spontaneously emerging black skvny on nails indicate a serious cancer of the pigment cells of the skin.

If nails are brittle fraying is worth considering the quality of diet, because it is the hair and nails, thus “unnecessary parts” where the lack of nutrients and vitamins soon take effect. If there is mentioned dark spots or yellow discoloration and thickening of the nail fungus infection as in, the best solution is to visit a dermatologist to determine the correct diagnosis and treatment.