Maintaining Healthy Nails
The nails may suffer from various ailments and diseases. Also, can reveal to an expert health disorders in other parts of the body, showing signs of a possible problem elsewhere in the body.
Many times we pay no attention, beyond the aesthetic to this part of our body and yet we tend to stay healthy and be alert to any changes that may occur in morphology, color or appearance. It is important to tell your doctor about any alteration. The specialist, dermatologist mainly through a small exploration of the nails may determine whether any health problem that affects one’s fingernails or, if on the contrary, there is a problem in another part of our body. While it is true that a change in the nails often do not have to be significant if it helps to sense some other problem, so they are very valuable tools in determining the overall health status.
Symptoms anomalous in our fingernails and before which we ask our doctor are: spots, dark spots, skin separation, peeling, thin white lines, bends, thinning, yellowing, stunted growth, rising end, bleeding, inflammation of the edges or pink bands at the edges.
It is very important, good hygiene and care of our nails and prevents problems which may affect them. It is very important to keep nails clean, dry and cut. We must avoid a common practice, which is cutting the cuticle, and that can benefit the development of infections.
Some of the problems of the nails are caused by the presence of bacteria, fungi, ingrown toenails, tumors or warts. But as we said, there are a number of signs or symptoms in our nails can indicate the presence of a general health problem:
- If our nail has a concave shape with rising on both sides, may be due to lack of iron in the body or anemia, heart disease, hypothyroidism or malnutrition.
- If there is some bleeding under the nail can be caused by trauma or an internal cause, so it is important to tell your specialist.
- Greater curvature of the nail and an overgrowth of connective tissue and swelling of the finger are all signs of any type of failure: lung, heart, liver, gastrointestinal and renal.
- Presence of transverse white lines on several nails may be indicative of some kind of reaction to some medicine, tumors, infectious diseases (tuberculosis or malaria), renal and cardiovascular problems. A band in the end is a sign of cirrhosis or heart failure.
- A band in the end may be a sign of heart failure or cirrhosis.
- If our fingernails turn yellow, thin and hardly grow can be caused by asthma, chronic bronchitis or tuberculosis.
As we can see the nails are very useful tools to determine the general state of health, so it is very important to take care, as well as go to a dermatologist for any alteration, because they can be very helpful as a warning before more serious problems health.
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