Fingernail Diagnosis

Fingernails have been since the early times, given proper importance. Hippocrates believed that fingernails are the best way to diagnose a person problem, especially if that problem proves to be internal. Apart from being a mirror to our overall health issues, fingernails are the perfect way to give a plus to our style and to define our personality.

The material the fingernails are made of is keratin, a protein that helps in their growth and that exists as well in the hair and in the body. Anything that goes wrong in your body is strictly connected to the fingernails, though the blood vessels that are connected to the matrix of the nail. A healthy fingernail has a pinkish look and a smooth surface with no lines whatsoever on them. Any change that occurs in a healthy fingernail look must be taken under control.

A fingernail diagnosis can be made when one removes the fingernail polish from his fingernails and then takes a good look at the fingernails. Making a fingernail diagnosis one will find out things both about some fingernail disorders that are locally and as well the illness one may be suffering from.

Therefore, there may appear some ridges on the fingernails, pitted, soft, spoon-shaped, brittle, infected, discolored, yellow, white, purple, black, clubbed, and curved, no moons. Some of the discoloration or the changes that the fingernails suffer may be caused by some internal disorders.

While the external fingernails causes may be prevented and if not they can at least be treated, the internal fingernails diagnosis problems cannot be treated just by treating the actual disease. External causes are treated by using less harsh chemicals around your nails or wearing some protective gloves if this is the case, by using less moisture and protecting your fingernails from staying too much in water, by using less nail polish and nail polish remover, by being attentive to any trauma your fingernail may be suffering, by not using your fingernails as tools, by having a proper diet that will as well allow your fingernails to get the proper and the needing vitamins from your body, all  in all by paying attention as well to them.

The internal causes that may not depend on us and one can do nothing to prevent it, but to treat them are caused by factors like respiratory or circulatory problems, liver or kidney disease, heart failure, some melanoma that appears in the organism, results of some chemotherapy, and even the aging process that is a  good part of all this.

Knowing all the above information, one has the proper knowledge to start taking care suitably of the nails. Even though it may seem hard and a lot of factors may seem that have to do with all of this, two hours at most per day, twice a week, is not much to ask for a person in order that one gives a proper look to the fingernails state. Any change whatsoever, is good to notice and to do something about it, not just cover it with polish and pretend that you never saw it.