Many people assume that all discolored toenails that often, or otherwise abnormal in appearance with the fungal infection of the toe nail. While in many cases this is true, there are many other conditions that can cause discoloration and changes in the nail surface. These conditions are not treatable with medication to fight the popular toenail fungus, which many believe the drugs are not effective against what the research had to be aFungal infection. This article discusses some of the most common diseases that can cause changes in the nails of the feet, so that the difference between the fungus and the nail was completely different from an estimate.
The most common reason for a nail discolored, thick, oddly shaped or otherwise abnormal has nothing to do with disease or infection. Nail changes are simply due to mechanical pressure base. The tissue that grows outside of the nail (the nail matrix) is quitehow fragile and even slight pressure over time can grow this unusual nail tissue. This fabric is made over the bone below the base of the nail short of what is commonly known as the cuticle. Facing the pressure of his foot to the toes and the tip of the tip of the day. The pressure may be in the form of a quick single event, like a big weight on his foot, or gradually, as if someone wears a long second toe fitting shoes often. Injury is directlyDamage to the nail matrix, or cause the lifting of the nail from the skin under the pressure of bleeding that in turn damage the nail matrix or the skin under the nail itself. Pressure from shoes with an attack or bad points, to be set up far away at the top of the shoe (due to location of birth, or slowly developing deformities such as hammer toes) for thickening, lead discolored nails. This is due to the construction of a nail the same, or hard disk of the underlying tissue. This process isirreversible, as the nail matrix is usually permanently damaged, even if the nail softener to solve some of the keratin (the material of the skin and nails), which is based in this area. It is not unusual for her toenails to thicken more with age. This is perhaps a combination of factors described above, or simply because of declining circulation and the quality of the tissues of the skin in general.
Another common reason for discolored nails or unusually shaped due to the factDisease to other parts of the body. There are many conditions cause discoloration of the nails. Conditions such as heart and kidney diseases because of the color of red and brown nails or have changed. Liver disease and malnutrition can be formed into thin white lines on the nail from side to side, as various types of chemical poisoning, such as carbon monoxide and arsenic. Completely white nails can also indicate liver disease, thyroid disease, malnutrition and diabetes.Blue-gray nails usually are just bleeding under the nail from an injury, but can also show silver poisoning. Splinter-like red stripes will be the result of the heart, infections, cancer in other parts of the body, pregnancy, and various types of arthritis and autoimmune connective tissue diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Chemotherapy can also become discolored nails in varying degrees, and also cause them to become brittle and lose.
Various skin diseases can alsoappearance of their nails. For example, psoriatic nail pitting and a slick as the color of the nails. Pitting can also be caused by a variety of allergic conditions and autoimmune / rheumatic.
The most important change that is mistaken for a bruise or fungal nail appears as a dark line in the nail. This strip can begin to expire at the end of the nail bed and nail. Unlike bruises nails, discoloration is this something together well contained,more like a bar and less like a place. In dark-skinned people, this is a common and usually benign. In fair-skinned people, especially those with pigmentation changes may cause the skin around the nail strips, may indicate melanoma. It is a diagnosis that can be produced quickly and accurately, such as melanoma can be fatal has. Required evaluation by a doctor about any new dark streaks on the nails and surrounding skin should be done, as hypothesized, it is fungus or a bruisecan be a deadly mistake. The symptoms are risk factors for melanoma of the nail strip in a new light-skinned person, a sudden change (enlargement, dark, etc.) in a strip exists, the participation of a single nail, the pigmentation of the skin around the nail, a new test in an elderly person (age 60-79), a strip of width greater than 3 mm, and a family history of melanoma.
As you can see, many conditions can cause changes in toenail. In all honesty, should nottake every little change in their nails may indicate an important disease. These types of nail changes are not common, but the fundamental point is that not all fungi are related, if the causes of abnormal nails.
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