Nail Treatment
| The beauty of your hand depends on some extent on the beauty of your nails. You take good care of your hands, but if your nail looks unhealthy, it only puts a bad impression on the minds of onlookers. Nails are very fragile part of our body and if you can make them strong and healthy by taking good care. Thus, eat healthy and try to include lot of calcium enriched foods like milk, cottage cheese. Also never allow dirt and dust to stay on nails.
But still there are circumstances where nails can suffer from different problems. Thus, nail treatment acts as right solution in treating your nail problems. Lets take a look at different kinds of nail problems and the treatments available for it. |
Types of nail problems and its treatments
- Discoloration of nails: This is probably one of the worst nail problem. It is a type of condition where the color of nails changes drastically and looks very bad. Nail has no color and looks colorless. In this condition it changes into yellow, blue,green or purple. The nail suffers from this kind of problem, when the body experiences inadequate blood circulation or as a medicinal side effect.
Treatment: This condition of nail can be covered with nail polish or by putting artificial nails. However, one must consult doctor to find the reasons behind discoloration and take medicines if required.
- Fragile or thin nails: This kind of nail is also called egg shell nails as they break easily like the shell of an egg. As soon as nail reaches on the tip of finger it curves and breaks away. The reason behind this kind of disorder is improper diet and side effects of harsh chemicals.
Treatment: The best treatment for this kind of nail condition is to trim the nails and never allow them to grow beyond the finger tip. However, if nail condition occurs due to consumption of medicine, stop the medicine and ask doctor to substitute with some other medicine.
- Furrows: Furrows are long strips that runs across the nails. It occurs as a result of improper blood circulation, frost bite and inadequate intake of zinc in daily diet. If left unattended the stripes might go deeper.
Treatment: You can hide these ridges by buffing or using any good quality ridge filler.
- Hangnails: Medically it is also known as agnails. This condition is contributed by dry cuticles. When cuticles are cut loose it also contributes to hang nails.
- Treatment: The best treatment for this nail condition is to trim hanging skin from time to tome. Regular application of cuticle oil can also help in dealing with this nail problem effectively.
- Ingrown nails: This nail condition is also known as onychocryptosis where nail starts growing on sides of skin. Wearing improper shoes for prolonged time or filing nails in wrong way contributes to this problem.
- Treatment: The best treatment for this kind of nail problem is to consult a doctor who will remove the nail and follow the instructions accordingly.
