My Chinese doctor said my ridged nails were a sign of a problem with my lungs. He got me to have a scan and found a very rare cancer called Langerhans cell Histiocytosis …he has since retired but I will forever be grateful to him for his wisdom and observation.
Interesting fact: I had surgery and had on my usual nail polish using dip powder (no artificial tips). After surgery my oxygen readings were low and I had to go on oxygen. They kept reading my oxygen levels with end of finger clip on device. After a few weeks of being on oxygen with continued low readings, another nurse made me turn my finger 90 degrees within the clip and my oxy levels were great. She said the nail polish can interfere with the readings!
00:00 0. Intro 01:12 1. Yellow nails 02:05 2. White spots 03:04 3. Cracked or brittle nails 04:14 4. Discolored nails 05:36 5. Pitted nails 06:24 6. Ridged nails 07:22 7. Bluish nails 08:08 8. Nail biting 09:07 9. Reddish nails
I have been taking calcium and bioton supplements and eating more veggies and ive seen a huge difference in my nails. My nails have always been very soft and they rip very easily but when I eat well its 100% better
I should have seen this 1-2 yrs ago. I had a vertical line on both my toe nails. I took a clippers to them & found the dark lines were not attached to nail bed. I have been cutting the nails really short, now they are both becoming lifted & thick. My doctor didn't even seem concerned
What was it ? I've got thin black vertical lines on both of my big toe nails, noticed them fir a while now but didn't think they were anything serious 😮
I got ridged nails after being in hospital some years ago for a month with pneumonia ‘n pleurisy & having a VATS decortication procedure. Whether it was the pneumonia or the large constant doses of IV antibiotics, I have no idea, but I’ve had longitudinal ridges ever since. Also heaps of wrinkles appeared at every joint in my knuckles too. They’re still there too.
My mom and grandma(nurse) taught me to never wear nail polish when going to the doctors office ... so they can check the health of your body, including some systemic diseases. 💅🛑
Castor oil has been helping a lot of health issues reported on youtube lately. I wonder if rubbing it into the nails before bed if it would help heal them.
Vertical nail ridges are common as we age and nothing to worry about. For athlete's foot on your toenails the most effective treatment is fast and cheap-apply Clorox using cotton balls. 💕☮🌎🌌
I went to the dermatologist a few weeks ago to get my annual mole check. I told the nurse lady that asks a bunch of questions before the doctor comes in, that I wanted my nails looked at because I have pitting, bad ridges and beaus lines. Doctor comes in and does mole check and I forgot to ask him about my nails. Wouldn't it have been written down? Why did she even ask me then? So I still don't know if it's a concern or not without making another appointment.
The texture and hardness of my nails has changed due chemotherapy. They have way more ridges, but they're also much stronger. Lousy way for my nails to finally improve in my 60s.
I live in the United States and Texas they say I have psoriasis but I don't think so my nails my cuticles overgrow constantly into my nails and it looks horrible get medicine from the dermatologist and it comes right back goes away and comes right back I was in the painting industry forever especially industrial painting and I think that's how it all started
I have pretty healthy nails. I do have a clumsy problem 😂 i have dropped large food cans on my toe nails. Caught my entire foot in the door and against the bed frame. Ive had an entire nail fall off due to dropping a heavy box😂 i just need to be more careful when using my feet
I have dropped a cast iron skillet on my right big toe breaking my toe. I have had a bowling ball pop up out of the ball return and land on my left big toe, breaking my toe on my sliding foot. Ex wanted me to finish the game, another 5 frames to go. No thanks. I preferred to pack my broken toe in ice. And while kicking an intruder in a dream resulted in kicking the wall beside my bed causing me to immediately wake up from hitting the right big toe again. I still have a bruise on that one but it is getting better.
@@kathyverrelli5170 oh no I'm sorry that happened. I hope your toes healed okay. Yeah I remember a time before an ex of mine stepped back on one of my toes and the nail fell off...it was an accident though.
I really liked the video, but again I was disappointed because they did not give any info. On a problem nail. Several times over my life I noticed my nailbed suddenly very sensitive. When I look closer the 1/3 - 1/2 of my nailbed, where the cutical connects is pealed/stripped of parts of the top layer. Example: when you remove a piece of tape from the roll there is a snag the piece tears jagidly. Then you have to go back & peal the remainder that was stuck/ left behind. Sorry for the length but it's hard for me to explain briefly.
I disliked the video here is why. If you can't provide solutions for the health problems in the same videos please don't make such videos to scare people. If we want to visit the specialist or the doctors for everything then what's the point in watching videos on RU-vid. People watch RU-vid videos to see if they can fix the problem without going to the doctors. Realise that not everyone is rich enough to afford the specialist doctors & expensive treatment. Help people with resolutions to the problems or some natural treatment s or herbs that might help.
I’ve learned to apply oil every time after washing hands. Just one drop is enough for all nails. Just sort of rub it in. You have to do it religiously, but after 4 weeks my nails are much harder and stronger!
This was EXCELLENT information.What kind of Dr do u see about your nails?? I have 3 out of the 11 things mention on my nails! Brittle, the dent, and lines! and linez
My thumb nail is growing with a vertical ridge in the middle. It now splits as soon as starts getting longer & I'm having to keep it short. All my other nails are fine. This has been going on now for over a year. I do not bite my nails and very rarely wear nail polish. I apply oil on my cuticles and use a wooden nail stick to ease my cuticles back. Any advice?
My nails have no moons except my thumbs. They were there as a child, but have disappeared over the last 48 or so years. My nails also either curl from one side or the other or they try and fold themselves over. This is not from having them too long... this starts when they are about 3mm from the nail bed.
unfortunately your video does not include any mention of what is called Whitlow finger nail i dont know how to heal it iodine, manuka pure oil just trying to keep it clean & dry and keep it as ok as i can without it being an eye - saw/sore thanks for info.
Thank u for that bit of info. I used to take that when I was younger. I have the ridges, but thankfully u can’t see them unless you’re looking closely.
i had scarlet fever when i was young and was allergic to penicillin...i was prescribed tetracycline and terramyacin, now known to weaken dental structure, so it makes sense that it could affect the nails also🙃
Some years back, I slammed my right middle finger in the door jam...ouch! The nail turned black. I didn't want to have a blacken nail forever. But the nail eventually came off and a new one grew. Never had that happened to me before. couple of my toe nails had a little yellowish tint and growing kind of funny. I started putting some tee tree oil with some coconut oil and doing pretty good. I know I don't drink enough water especially in the winter time.
OMG 🤭Car door...I SOAKED IT IN CAMOMILE AND LAVENDER OIL,IT WAS REALLY SMASHED...REFUSED TO GO TO HOSPITAL AFTER WHAT THEY DID TO MY MOTHER ( MAL-PRACTICE),THEY KILLED MY MOTHER...NO ONE CAN TELL ME DIFFERENTLY,EVER!!!(AROUND COVID B.S, QUARANTINE)
🪷Wow! How valuable a “post”! Thank you for this meaningful info. Going to share with family. ANSWERS to questions have carried about, most of my 69 years. 🪷
Calcium issues doesn't cause white spots on nails that had already been debunked. Missing lanula can most times be due to genetics and just not seeing them. Yellow nails is seen with red and orange nail polish. Nail ridges are common with age as well as iron deficiency which is really common with girls and women. Before you freak out thinking you are dying just know a lot of these are not sinister.
Tell us something we didn't know fifty years ago. Your nails are subject to the blood flow of the finest capillaries. So in addition to being time recorders of your health for the last few months, they can react as quickly as a few hours to what you have eaten. A sudden dry brittle or cracked finger nail can be caused by eating a lot of butter or fried food that day.
I bit my nails my entire life up until about 8 years ago. My nail beds are now permanently deformed. Now that my nails are growing, they flair up and out because there's no nail bed for them to grow on . I have to trim them much shorter than a normal nail would have to be. I don't know what a woman in my situation would have to do if she wanted longer yet normal looking nails.
If you go to 6:11-6:12, that sums-up what remains unhealed on my left and right large toes. Is this just something that remains as a reminder of the former toe nail fungus, or is there a next step to get this center end of toe nails to grow back?
Dear Deborah! my Mother had this too for over 50 years. no Doctor could help. than she wanted to clean something and put her Hands into chlorcleaner ( in Austria "Danchlor") and it disapeered. :-). but you can put sterillum classic Pur on it - thatś harmfull and after a few weeks the nail will grow new and nice. I hope so! love from Vienna - Tünde
I thought the longitudinal lines in my nails were from old age. They have always been extremely hard. In regards to psoriasis, yes I have had a severe blistering psoriasis and it will lift the entire nail right up off the nailbed. I would see a good dermatologist if I was having nail problems. Don't go to a busy clinic style office. Find one with a private office and no more than one PA. Some Dermatologists don't even treat psoriasis. They just want the easy cosmetic cases.
For 68 years i had brittle, breakable nails. One day I dropped some IODINE on one nail when I was dropping it onto a deep cut near the cuticle. About 3 days after that I noticed that the nail growing out was as hard as a rock. I decided to put drops onto all the nails and see what happens. Now i use an eye dropper once a week to drop Iodine onto my nails at night They do go brown at first then by the morning the brown is all gone. All of my nails are now absolutely rock hard. I have to use strong clippers to trim them. I use very little IODINE so a small bottle lasts me for months. Maybe my body was short of Iodine and the drops fix the problem. I have noticed that my hair has also grown thicker and at 71 has still not gone grey. I do so love nails that do not look ugly and hair that does not break or is brittle. Just do not swallow Iodine or use it in any other way.
About 22-3 years ago, I had just started to go to a dermatologist who also had a Pathology degree. I had, at that point, been dealing with a systemic disease for well over a decade, but my doctors were not sure what...something more rare. Roughly once or twice a year, for about 6 weeks at a time, it would rear it's head and I would feel lousy and get these weird bumps on my fingers. The Dermatologist got me in just as it started to clear up....but he had a good idea of what it was. Told me to get in right away next time. Next time, couldn't get in again till as it was clearing up...even though I told scheduling that the dr wanted to see me right away. Soon after, he changed his office into one of those skin care Spas that could care less about diseases. So, THANK YOU Kitty!! I will look for one w/o a SPA attatched. Will most likely have to go to a small town near by.
Where are those complains about nails before manicures and pedicures...It's better to be innocence ...than expert...you're spending your happy days on earth to worry..
I have very ridged nails now and I have Crohn’s disease and for the 2nd time in 10 years I have extreme!! Low calcium and vitamine D. in my country your vitamine should be between 75 and 150 (even some people say that during the winter it can be between 50 and 150….for older people, so not me!) and my level is at 13 right now so it explains everything! And my calcium was at 2 and should be higher then 3,5. But calcium was fixed with an IV with calcium (within 24 hours I felt like a superhuman for about 48 hours with that new level of higher calcium!) And not only did I have ridged nails on 2 nails I also had 2 strange looking nails 👀 it looked like they were flaking (is that how you say it in English?) peeling of from the nail bed side……but ever the calcium IV that stopped immediately 😊
None of the videos I've watched on Nails explains why the middle figer and ring finder nails on my right hand cup downward This has only happened since I turned about 65. I know another lady that has the same 2 fingernails that do the sme thing. I'd love to know what vitamin or mineral is low in my diet that causes this.
Hello Donna Shelton :-) I have this also with the same 2 fingers , only it is my left hand. I am female , early 50's. It is realy odd. Sending best & well wishes from Scotland*
My nails are rigged a little now , but I have a terrible program with a few of my nail Splitting and then you have to cut back allow to regrow only for them to SPLIT AGAIN. Help!
What about our toe nails? Does it also telling us something is not right from our health? I have this toe nail growth problem few years back till now, its doesn't grow as how it's suppose to grow.. Instead both edges at the end nails close to each other and it's really painful...
Are you talking about in-grown toenails? It sure sounds like it. Many years ago I had mine operated on in the podiatrist's office. It never came back, but I can see the edge where they took the inside edges off. He also put something on my nail bed at the base that killed the nail there so it would not grow back. My nails are so hard and strong that it broke his cutter.
Maybe if they mentioned what kind of vitamin or mineral deficiency or didn't skip right over to the most common reason is injury? Calling BS on that...I didn't injure all 10 of my nails
My nails haveathin band of deep red running across beneath them at the tips of my fingers .Does anyone know what causes this ? I am insulin resistant ,but this problem hasn't been mentioned as linked to it .
