If your Fingernails could talk

• 1. Brittle nails
  – poor nutrition especially low vitamin A, vitamin C or biotin
  – hypothyroidism
• 2. Yellow nails
  – diabetes
  – hypothyroidism
  – psoriasis
  – onychomycosis (nail fungus)
• 3. Nail pits or depression
  – psoriasis
  – alopecia areata (Patchy baldness or rarely generalised)
• 4. Vertical ridges
  – common with ageing
  – iron deficiency anaemia
• 5. Horizontal ridges
  – zinc deficiency
  – diabetes
  – kidney conditions
• 6. Dark streaks or marks
  – broken blood vessels
  – psoriasis
  – endocarditis (heart infection)
  – melanoma (if clean black streaks)

#For more information visit your skin specialist doctor
#Viksha skin clinic
#nail specialist doctor in ahmedabad, gujarat