Lines On Fingernails Wallpaper
Most of the time fingernail lines are normal and do not indicate underlying health issues.
Lines on fingernails.
This can occur when something hurts your nail bed and bursts a blood.
So a skin condition such as eczema may lead to fingernail ridges.
Horizontal fingernail lines may be more suspect but even here the lines may be nothing and could be a sign of age or behaviors.
Having vertical longitudinal ridges on the fingernails refers to the presence of tiny raised lines or ridges that run up and down the length of the nail.
Aging is the most common cause of fingernail ridges.
Fingernails are made by living skin cells in your fingers.
Ridges in fingernails that run side to side are less common and might give you more pause.
In this image you can see the fingers are also jaundiced another sign of liver.
If the nails are mostly white with darker rims this can indicate liver problems such as hepatitis.
Skin dryness can also cause these ridges.
Beau s lines are indentations that run across the nails.
The fingernails are made of a protein called keratin which is also found in the skin and hair.
The indentations can appear when growth at the area under the cuticle is interrupted by injury or severe illness.
For example ice pick like depressions in the nails nail pitting are common in people who have psoriasis a condition characterized by scaly patches on the skin.
Conditions associated with beau s lines include uncontrolled diabetes and peripheral vascular disease as well as illnesses associated with a high fever such as scarlet fever measles mumps and pneumonia.
There are some worst case scenarios on the other hand that may be worth considering.
Nail pitting can also be related to connective tissue disorders such as reiter s syndrome and alopecia areata an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss.
Ridges are among the different kinds of nail abnormalities that can develop due to aging nail injury or trauma or underlying medical conditions.