Tuesday, January 19, 2010

How come people have really deformed finger nails?

An example of this would be Tiffany Amber Thiessen's nails (she's the actress who played Kelly on ';Saved By the Bell';)


Is it from biting nails, from a genetic defect, or just a normal variant of finger nails in the human population? The few times I've noticed this have all been on caucasians, so I'm thinking its just a normal phenotypic variant seen in the white population. I highly doubt its due purely to biting nails because i've known some asians, african americans, latinos who bite nails and their nails aren't deformed like that.How come people have really deformed finger nails?
some problems are brought on from wearing fake nails nad not getting them done correctly. Females go through alot to be beautiful and do not take in to account the side effects of some of the crap they do. You have to let your natural nails breathe and wearing the fake ones all the time will make the real ones soft, brittle and look really sick. I still have one that grows wierd from wearing them.How come people have really deformed finger nails?
cus they dont cut em
Nail Problems





Disorders specifically affecting the nails are few; more often, discolouration or deformity is the result of injury, or of nutritional, respiratory, or heart disorders.





Deformed nails have a variety of causes, including iron deficiency (nails become spoon-shaped), respiratory or heart problems (nails become clubbed, growing round swollen ends of fingers and sometimes toes), Psoriasis (nails become pitted), injury and infection (nails develop horizontal ridges), or simply old age (nails develop vertical ridges, possibly due to malabsorption of Vitamins A, B complex and C, calcium, magnesium, zinc, and essential fatty acids).





Self-help Preventive measures include keeping nails short, wearing gloves for gardening and rubber gloves if hands are repeatedly immersed in water, trimming toenails straight across to prevent them ingrowing, and wearing shoes which do not press on toenails.





Discoloured nails can be telltales of a variety of conditions, including Anaemia (nails very pale), liver problems (nails whitish) bacterial endocarditis (nails have dark flecks in them which look like splinters), and fungi infections (nails turn whitish and soft or crumbly); nails also turn purplish or black when hit (see sub-ungual haematoma below) or put under gentle but constant pressure for any length of time. White spots on nails are often a sign of zinc or Vitamin A deficiency.





Fungal infections turn the nails white and crumbly, causing ridging and thickening afterwards. Orthodox medicine prescribes antifungal drugs or ointments. However, the homeopathic remedies in Self Help section should be tried first.





Specific remedies to be taken 4 times daily for up to 3 weeks





Nails brittle, with horny thickening Antimonium 6c





Nails deformed, with white spotting Silicea 6c





Nails thickened, deformed, brittle or crumbly, inflamed and painful, with blackening Graphites 6c





Nails brittle, with skin at base red and swollen Thuja 6c





Self-help: Soak nails twice a day in Calendula solution (10 drops mother tincture to 0.25 litre boiled, cooled water) or apply Calendula ointment. If it is very persistent, rub Whitfield's ointment, available from chemists, thoroughly round the sides and bed of the nail.





Ingrowing toenails are usually caused by ill-fitting shoes or by tapering nails at sides instead of cutting them straight across; occasionally they can be due to problems in the nailbed. As the sides of the nail curve under, surrounding skin becomes inflamed and tender. Orthodox treatment is minor surgery. In early stages, process can be arrested by working a small piece of lint between side of nail and skin over top of nail and nailbed underneath) after thoroughly bathing toe with Hypericum and Calendula solution (5 drops of mother tincture of each in 0.25 litre [1/2 pint] boiled cooled water). If nail becomes infected, use remedies given for paronychia (see below).





Specific remedies to be given every 12 hours for up to 1 month then see your GP if no improvement





鈥?To strengthen nails which repeatedly ingrow Magnetis austr. 30c





鈥?If nails are very brittle Thuja 30c








got answer from


http://www.drlockie.com/disease/nail.htm

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