Nail Disease
Nail Disease
Treatment is required for bacterial and fungal infections, ingrown nails, tumors and warts.Always keep nails clean, dry, and trimmed to avoid some problems.
Do not remove the cuticle, which can cause infection.
Nail Abnormalities and Systemic Disease
Beau's Lines are transverse depressions in the nail plate that often follow local trauma. It may reflect poor nutritional status or reaction of medication which tend to resolve spontaneously.
Onychoysis is the distal separation of the nail plate from the underlying nail bed. Often occurs with thyroid disease, psoriasis and eczema and may be persistent.
Onychomadesis is the proximal separation of the nail plate from the nail bed resulting in shedding of the nail. Usually caused by trauma- may or may not be permanent.
Onychorrhexis is the presence of longitudinal striations of ridging of the nails. May reflect advanced age where V-shaped notching or nicking of the free edges of the nails are common. It is usually persistent.
Koilonychia is the spoon-shaped, concave nails occurring with iron-deficiency anemia and Plummer-Vinson syndrome because of the thinning and softening of the nail plate. It tends to resolve either with treatment or with aging (in children).
Yellow nail syndrome is the permanent cessation of nail growth resulting in hard, thickened, curved, yellow nails. They occur with lymph edema, chronic bronchitis, or bronchiectasis and tend to be persistent.