If the eyes are the windows heart, then your nails are the windows to your health condition. Color and texture of the nails can indicate a person’s health condition. Healthy nails colored translucent, smooth textured and strong. Look at your nails again, look, if there are fine lines of white color, slightly reddish, or maybe the texture of your nails a little bumpy on the surface. For you, this may not mean anything. But for the trained eye, these irregularities can mean a lot, valuable clues about your health condition as a whole.
Tamara Lior, dermatologist at the Cleveland Clinic Florida, claimed to have asked a patient to check the condition of his lungs after seeing the blue color in the nails of his hands. And indeed, the patient was having problems with the lungs. Blue hue on the nail that indicates lack of oxygen.
White lines on the nails indicate horizontal owner’s lack of protein in the blood. While horizontal striped color changes can mengeindikasikan arsenic poisoning, malaria, the effects of chemotherapy, or carbon monoxide poisoning.
Other signs, if you are whitish nails, it could be a sign of liver disease or hepatitis.
Yellow nails, thickened, and slow nail growth, indicating lung disease.
Yellow nails and corrugated indicate diabetes.
Whitish nails and slightly reddish, indicating renal symptoms.
Red nail bed, showing heart disease.
Pale white nails, indicating anemia.
If there is a change in your nails, consult your doctor immediately. Doctors can help diagnose the disease you suffered, or make sure you are okay, just a regular nail disease caused by infection or fungus.