When Your Finger Nails Talks with You

Yes! Your nails can talk.

Nail talks through its color and shape. Yes, it talks to indicator your health condition. A healthy person’s nail would be light pink and it should not be pale, soft or fragile, or not even concave or convex in shape. To let you about some of your health conditions, you nails may take changes in color and shape. They can refer you to visit a doctor from a dermatologist to a psychiatrist. Let’s see how they talks with you:

1. Whitish pale: Whitish pale nail usually is a symptom of anemia. Lack of protein also gives pale look instead of pink as well. Kidney diseases may cause protein deficiency in the body.  Pale tongue, lower part of your eyes and skin indicate necessity of hemoglobin check in your blood.

2. Yellow: Your nail color turns yellow when it gets fungal infection. Besides, fungal infection makes your nail thick. You may need to take long term anti-fungal medication for its cure. Nail may also turn yellow due to Psoriases (see Fragile Nail).

3. Bluish: When your nails turn into bluish color, medics call it Cyanosis. It means oxygen is not reaching your blood properly. This may happen due to critical diseases in lungs or heart. You may also face bluish nails climbing over high hills or mountains as higher you go, the less oxygen you get in the air. However, bluish nails say you should visit a doctor immediately.

4. Fragile Nail: If your nail breaks bit by bit or becomes fragile, they are saying you that you are Psoriasis patient. Psoriasis is a complicated disease. It also affects skin, bone-joint and other places of the body. So it should be treated right away.

5. Cracked or Broken Nail Tip: Cracked or broken nail tip says that you have a bad habit of Nail Biting. Especially nervous children bite nails. This bad habit leads to fragile and thin nail. To get rid of it, visit a psychiatrist.

6. Concave Nail: Round shape swelling or concave nails are called Nail Clubbing. This is saying that you have critical diseases in lungs or heart. On the hand, due to serious anemia and deficiency of iron in body nails may becomes concave. Do not waste a moment and have an appointment with your doctor.

So nails are not only a harden part of your fingers, they are quite a good friend of you – warning you about your health. Keep in touch with your nail always.

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