HEALTH TIPS: This Is What Your Fingernails Say About Your Health

Here are some health tips on what your nails say about your health.

HEALTH TIPS – There are some health indications that your nails show and here are some changes you can see to it and what it means.

What happens inside our body sometimes manifest to what we appear from the outside. If you’ve been eating unhealthy foods, you will likely possess an overweight body and being overweight is certainly not a good sign.

And sometimes, what we do not know appears to our fingernails and all we have to do is to look closely to its changes and consult a doctor.

Now, here are some things that our nails are probably telling us:

White nails can be a sign of liver disease such as hepatitis, low protein stores in the body or kidney failure, and in rare cases, congestive heart failure, or diabetes.

Pale nails indicate anemia, congestive heart failure, liver disease, or malnutrition.

Yellow nails might be a sign of fungal infection and chronic bronchitis while in rare cases, it’s lung disease, diabetes, psoriasis, or thyroid disease.

Blue tint in the nails is a sign that your body doesn’t have enough oxygen, a side effect from a drug, emphysema, heart problems, excessive silver consumption, bacterial infection of the nail, or Wilson’s disease.

Red streaks in your nails is a result of trauma, psoriasis, fungal infection, heart valve infection, or blood vessel inflammation.

Cracked nails could be a sign of thyroid disease, psoriasis, repeated trauma, or side effect of a certain medication you take.

Ridges that are parallel to your fingers might be a sign of aging or chronic trauma while the ones across the nail is a sign of diabetes, severe injury, or past illness or medication exposure as per article from Aurora Healthcare.