What Your Nails Say About Your Health
Looking at a person鈥檚 fingernails can indicate whether their body is in perfect working order or if they have a health problem. Even as early as 450 B.C., the Greek physician Hippocrates was theorizing that the nails can tell a lot about the health of the body.
If you鈥檙e in general good health, and your nails look okay but are brittle, flaky or break easily, it鈥檚 probably due to exposure to the elements or irritating chemicals; the majority of nail problems are a result of this. When your nails get wet, they swell, and they shrink again once they鈥檙e dry. This cycle is repeated so often that it can leave the nails stripped and fragile. The temperature can also be the culprit: both very cold and excessively warm conditions can cause nail problems, especially dry cuticles. Or it could be that you鈥檙e using too many harsh chemicals around your nails, whether it鈥檚 cleaning products or things such as nail glue and polish remover.
If you鈥檝e tried removing the stressors indicated above (allowing several weeks for improvement), and your nails are still giving you grief, look at your diet. Are you getting adequate protein? Protein is especially important for nail health 鈥?you should be eating at least eight ounces of it every day. (If you鈥檙e getting enough protein already, adding more won鈥檛 help your nails.) An iron deficiency can also cause brittle nails. Taking a multivitamin supplement can alleviate many problems.
If your diet is fine and the condition of your nails won鈥檛 improve, or if they just look strange to you, it may be time to consult a doctor. Nails can be very accurate indicators of illness.
White fingernails with pink near the tips can indicate cirrhosis of the liver; if the nail is completely white, there could be a kidney or liver disorder, or severe anemia.
YELLOW fingernails can mean that you are diabetic, have problems with your liver, your lymphatic system, or respiratory disorders. Signs of these disorders can show up in the nails years before they actually occur, though, so just because your nails may be yellow doesn鈥檛 necessarily mean that you are currently suffering from such diseases. They鈥檙e just things to look out for, so talk to your doctor and take the proper preventative measures.
Dark nails, which will usually be flat or thin, indicate a deficiency in vitamin B-12.
If your nails beds are a very deep blue, it could mean emphysema or pulmonary obstruction.
White lines across the nail can indicate liver disease.
If your nail is half white, with dark spots across the top, there may be a problem with your kidneys.
Spots of pitted brown, or nail tips that split easily, can indicate psoriasis.
Very red skin at the bottom of your nail bed could mean a connective tissue disorder.
Thyroid disorders may cause the nails to have ridges or bumps, separate from the nail bed, or to be unusually soft.
Highly bendable nails can be an indicator of rheumatoid arthritis.
Flat nails can indicate Raynaud鈥檚 disease, a disease of the circulatory system that leaves the hands and feet perpetually cold.
Abnormally wide, square nails may signal a hormonal disorder.
Spoon-shaped nails indicate an iron deficiency or difficulty with the thyroid.
Abnormally large lunula (the white half-moon shape at the base of the nail) suggests an overactive thyroid, while the absence of a lunula can mean an under-active thyroid.How to fix yellowed finger nails?
Lightly buff your nails about once a week, don't over do it. this will remove the discoloring from them.
ok dats not a big problem
relax
jus take out the nail polish n let ur nails breeze out
keep buffing the everyday
and always rememder to put a base coat of natural before applying any other color...
wear a brown blouse
Agh, I did the same thing =[
I've read that the reason for yellow nails is the lack of oxygen. So I'm guessing you just to take off the nail polish and let them breath =D
Change thee nail polish if that is not the case the your not healthy anything that happens to your body it well effect your hole body.
get another nail polish remover and maybe putting white nailpolish and then taking it off our keep trimming it for a while untill new grow back get sally hansens strentghing clear enamel stuff
Use lemon juice. just squeeze some lemon juice out and dip your fingers in. It works.
People might suggest diluted lemon juice but I think you just have to grow it out to be honest. The acids in lemon juice will just damage your nail and cuticle. Meanwhile try to use a white pencil made for coloring under the nail tip
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