Nails Speak About the Health

Nails tell about our health well advance to any symptom. The following are few things which are known by looking at the nails.

Nutritional deficiencies
Nails reflect the nutritional deficiencies such as low level of iron, deficiencies of protein. Pale and whitish nail beds reflect deficiencies in the body and can be symptoms of anemia.

Stress and anxiety
If you’re a nail-biter, it is absorbed that you can’t handle much stress and anxiety especially when you’re alone. Nail-biting can lead to severe health problems because they are poisonous to health.

Injury to nail
This can reveal the damage of blood vessels under the nail as per the level of damage caused to nail. Symptoms of serious medical conditions like allergic reactions, infection are found by doctor after looking at your nails.

Infections
Painful, red and itchy skin around the nails gives a clue that something is wrong with your health like infections in your body.

Undiagnosed disease
Sometimes, by looking at your nails some symptoms of undiagnosed disease is found.

Updated: April 11, 2013 — 1:19 am