Our bodies have a magical way of hinting at issues brimming beneath the surface. In fact, even our fingernails offer clues about the state of our overall health. Here are six common fingernail issues—and what they might say if they could talk.
What Your Fingernails Say About Your Health
Brittle Nails
Yellow Nails
Nail Pitting
Vertical Ridges
Horizontal Ridges
Dark Streaks
Diagnosis by Nail System
This is the part of the fingernail called the moon. A person with a healthy thyroid have a moon on each finger. The more moons which are missing the more weak the thyroid.
Weak Thyroid can cause fatigue, mood swing, depression thinning of hair or change in hair texture, and skin.
Short wide nail
Indented nail
Dark line small splotch
Red. circular spots
Hangnail
Brittle nails easily broken
Blackish or yellowish tone
Side-view horizontal ridges
Side-view Spoon-like
Bumpy raise dots
Extremely narrow nails
Triangle nail
Ridges easily tears or splits
Dark ring on tip
Side-view Spoon-like
Shoot out like growth out of lunula
Nails pulls away from the skin bluish in color
Horizontal ridges