Techniques to diagnose the disease is increasingly diverse. Detection of disease by seeing your nail irregularities are also really old way. In addition to passing the examination of blood, feces, and urine, the disease can also be detected through the eyes, tongue, and even nails. Interpretation of this disease is through the nails had done people since the time of Hippocrates.
The main function of nail is to protect soft fingertip and full of nerves, and the heightens the sensory touch. In chemistry, the same nail hair, among other forms of keratin-rich protein sulfur.
Nails grow from a soft gel-like cells are dead, hardened, and then formed when starting to grow out of his fingertips. The skin on the base of the nail it functions to protect from dirt.
Good nutrition is very important for nail growth. On the contrary, if suffering from malnutrition or anorexia nervosa, nail growth is very slow and fragile.
Here are some peculiarities that can help polish your doctor diagnose a disease:
Fingernails Irregularities
The blue color indicates the base of the nail is less good blood circulation and is a sign of heart disease.
If half of the nail near the end of a pink or brown color while the white epidermis is a symptom of chronic renal disease.
If the horizontal wrinkles arise and nails look dull, it indicates lack of nutrition or symptoms of a disease such as measles, chicken pox, mumps, and heart conditions such as Reynaud’s syndrome (tendon strain on fingers and toes due to very cold)
Longitudinal red layer on the nails, indicating capillary bleeding. Double lines are the symptoms of high blood diseases.
If the nail growth was slow, thick and hard and yellowish, indicating lymph disorders or chronic gastrointestinal disease.
The emergence of spots on your nails irregular, indicating the existence of psoriasis (chronic skin disease).
And when the arches over the base of the nail and around the tip of the nail, it indicates symptoms of TB disease, emphysema (disorder in the lungs), cardiovascular disease or liver disease.
If that diagnosis is correct, we should be diligent attention to any changes in nail growth to faster disease was detected.
Detection of disease by seeing your nails irregularities. When you see your nails like the list above, just get to go to consult with your doctor.
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