How do we predict a diseases by seeing nail colour?
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the normal colour for nail is pinkish
- if the colour changes to white strips, some rippling or bumps it can indicate diseases related to heart , lungs & liver
"By a man's fingernails a man's calling is plainly revealed." So says Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in a Study in Scarlet, speaking as the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Besides occupation, the nails may reveal one's habits, anxiety level, and certain health problems.
White nails with a rim of darker color at the tip of the nail is called Terry's nail and rarely a sign of a severe liver disease called cirrhosis. Most people with this nail change are otherwise in good health.
Although totally white nails present since birth may be an inherited condition with no implications as to general health, if it occurs later in life, it may be a sign of several systemic diseases, including cirrhosis, chronic renal failure, congestive heart failure, diabetes mellitus, chronic hypoalbuminemia, and Hodgkin's lymphoma.
The so-called "yellow nail syndrome" occurs in patients with serious pulmonary disease and lymphedema (swelling of the extremities). In these patients, most if not all of the nails are yellowish.
In this condition, the nails are really normal in color but the nail bed, the tissue that lies beneath the nail plate, is blue. This is commonly called nail bed cyanosis and is a sign of poorly oxygenated blood or more accurately unoxygenated hemoglobin, the oxygen carrying protein in red blood cells.